This document provides tips for creating highly effective presentations. It emphasizes the importance of clear communication and storytelling to engage audiences. The key recommendations are to have a single core message, keep content simple, start with an engaging story rather than an agenda, use visuals over words whenever possible, appeal to emotions, and practice presentation skills. The overall goal is to make presentations "insanely great" so that audiences feel compelled to pay attention.
8. “BEING ABLE TO SPEAK IN PUBLIC
IS ONE OF FIVE KEY BUSINESS SKILLS
THAT CAN MAKE OR BREAK
YOUR COMPANY OR YOUR CAREER.
- FORBES -
9. “PRESENTATION LITERACY
ISN'T AN OPTIONAL
EXTRA FOR THE FEW.
IT'S A CORE SKILL
FOR THE 21st CENTURY.
- CHRIS ANDERSON, HEAD CURATOR OF TED TALKS -
10. “a person can have
the greatest idea in the world,
completely different & novel,
but if that person can’t
convince other people,
it doesn’t matter.
- GREGORY BERNS -
13. Have ONE
CORE MESSAGE.
step 1 :
- And please don’t make
me guess what it is! -
14. This portable music
player weighs a mere
6.5 ounces, is about the
size of a sardine can,
and boasts voluminous
capacity, long battery
life, and lightning-fast
transfer speeds.
for example :
15. This portable music
player weighs a mere
6.5 ounces, is about the
size of a sardine can,
and boasts voluminous
capacity, long battery
life, and lightning-fast
transfer speeds.
for example :
Huh?!?
16. This portable music
player weighs a mere
6.5 ounces, is about the
size of a sardine can,
and boasts voluminous
capacity, long battery
life, and lightning-fast
transfer speeds.
1000 songs
in your pocket.
- vs -
67. A story is
the only way
to activate the brain
so that listeners
turn the story
into their own idea
& experience.
- URI HASSON, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY -
“
97. “Take advantage of every opportunity
to practice your communication skills
so that when important occasions arise,
you will have the gift, the style,
the sharpness, the clarity,
& the emotions
to affect other people.
- JIM ROHN -
98. So that’s it!
You are now armed with
the very formula I use to create
most effective,
most popular
presentations ever!
some of the
103. A lot of people are waiting
for Martin Luther King
or Mahatma Gandhi
to come back
—but they are gone.
“
- MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN -
We are it.
It is up to us.
It is up to you.