Presentation Skills - A step by step Guide to Putting Together a Presentation
The Talkers Template serves as a step by step guide to putting together an Awesome Talk.Presentation. When you have the Topic for your Presentation and do each of the steps in the Talkers Template, you will have your Presentation prepared and ready to deliver.
Along the way we will discuss all that you need to consider in each step.
Here is how the Talkers Template works:
It has ten sections:
1. Topic
The first step,Topic will prepare you to think about how you are going to tackle the Topic of your Presentation. It will also describe how to set yourself some personal outcomes for the Presentation.
After Topic in our Talkers Template the remaining nine steps can be grouped into three distinct Parts.
Part One is concerned primarily with the words that make up your Presentation How you compile, hone and shape these to best represent what you want to communicate. These three sections are:
2. Broad Aim
The Broad Aim: is where you start the preparation for your Presentation. Answering four key questions will give you all the background information you need to target your Presentation to the needs and interests of your audience.
3. Objectives
Being clear about what you want to achieve with your Presentation is more than halfway to getting there. In the step on Objectives you will write yours for your Presentation. These objectives will include a way of measuring whether you have reached them at the end.
4. Content
Generating material to Present is easy but knowing what to include and leave out is the difference that makes the difference between an ordinary Presentation and an Effective one! In Content you will learn how to structure and format your Presentation in a way that will not only achieve your objectives but keep your audience engaged.
Part Two is concerned with the physical aspects of your Presentation. How you use your environment and the things in it to bring your material to life for your audience.
5. Visual Support
You can maintain the attention of your audience by varying the way you deliver your Presentation and the Visual Support you use. In this step we will look at the options available.
6. Presentation Notes
Your body language during a Presentation will be influenced by the type of Presentation notes you choose to use. This section looks at some of the options available and how best to use these to both enhance your Presentation and your interaction with your audience.
7. Practicals and Participation
Involving your audience in your Presentation is a choice that will be explored in step on Practicals and Participation. There are many subtle and obvious ways to do this with equally beneficial results.
Part Three serves to bring all these pieces together. The whole is always more than the sum of its parts and a Presentation is no different!
8. Introduction
It may seem strange that you write your Introduction at the end of the process but it is only when you get to the end of putting together your Presentation that you can best describe what it is you will be doing.
9. Conclusion
You can only tell someone where you have been at the end of the journey so it is at this point in the preparation of your Presentation that you are able to write your Conclusion. We will also cover how you can set up the physical space where you will be giving your Presentation to your best advantage. How to be ready on the day with checklists of the things you will need is also covered here.
10. Title
A Title for your Presentation that strikes a chord with your audience is also best set at the very end of your preparation when you have a real sense of the big picture. It is also the moment to reflect on the process you have used. This is the time for your own mental preparation for the delivery and enjoying the day. Remembering that YOU are your most powerful visual aid this step includes some essential material on body language and how to be aware of and manage your own.
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