Six Steps to Winning Presentations
There are six steps guaranteed to make preparing your presentation much easier. Each step listed here is described in the sections that follow:
Know your purpose.
Know your audience and its needs.
Know your subject.
Write your presentation.
Choose your audiovisuals.
Practice, practice, and then practice some more.
Step 1: Know Your Purpose
Why should anyone be willing to sit in a room in an uncomfortable chair with a bunch of other people for an hour and listen to you? There’s got to be a reason, and that’s your purpose. If you want to call this an objective or a goal, that’s okay, too. Call it whatever you like, just be clear in your mind why you are giving a presentation and how your audience will benefit. Failure ...
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