Deliver Impactful and

Engaging Presentations
Q U I C K C H EC K L I S T
Contents
•• Key Message
What information should you include and leave out? How can you organize your ideas to bring your message across?

•• Impactful Structure & Slides

How can you start and end your presentation? How can you design your slides for maximum impact?

•• Engaging Delivery
What language should I use? How can you make sure people understand your ideas? How to keep the audience engaged?

•• Vocabulary Bank
What transition phrases can you use? What are good sentences to start and finish a presentation?

•• Quick Checklist
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Key Message
MAIN IDEA POST-IT NOTES
Write down what you think Use post-it notes to write the
you need to present. major plot points of your talk.

WHAT, WHY, NEXT AUDIENCE

Decide your key message Think of their background,
(WHAT), your purpose (WHY), goals, and interests.
and your call to action (NEXT).

CLEAN UP RULE OF THREE

Filter out unnecessary details Go back to your brain dump
or information that can be and try to organize your
accessed later. presentation in groups of three.

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 Impactful Structure & Slides

a b c
STRONG START POWERFUL RECAPS SIMPLE SLIDES

Mention the key message at the Add powerful summaries after each Be consistent. Use big text and a simple
beginning. Start with a soft opening section and restate the main takeaways font, use simple images and avoid videos
(small talk or a poll) and then transition at the end. Repeat your messaging using or animations. Use high contrast colors
to a hard start. different words and intensity to guide the audience.

Welcome Introduce people Introduce topic Transition to main point

“Hi everyone, thank you so much for joining us “My name is Susan, and I’m part of the design “Today, I’d like to talk about…” “Alright, let’s dive right in!”
today and welcome to this webinar.” team here at Globex Corporation.”
“The main goal of this presentation is…” "Great, shall we kick things off?"

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 Keep the
Engaging Delivery audience
engaged
Give them a reason to listen to you

Repeat Don't rush: make pauses, speak slowly, drink water

your ideas
Be human: smile, show enthusiasm, show your personality

Be entertaining: tell anecdotes, use storytelling, don't read

Emphasize the call to action: tell them what to do next

Use Interact: make eye contact, look at the camera

Use your voive: vary the speed, tone, and volume

simple Set the scene: unclutter, remove background noise

language Start and end on time

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Vocabulary Bank (1/2)
Adding main points Adding evidence Segues
First of all, For example, That covers all of my introductory statements, now we will begin to look at...
To begin with, For instance, For the sake of time, let's leave that and turn to...
Firstly, To illustrate this point... That's all I will say about... let's move on to...
Most importantly, To demonstrate... I think that covers everything I'd like to say on the topic of... let's now transition to...
First and foremost, Namely,... From here, we will continue on to...
I'd like to start off by In order to exemplify... Now that we've covered [topic], that brings us to....
Let's begin with, According to,
Secondly, As stated by...,
Expressing cause Expressing effect Concluding
Next, To be specific,
Due to As a result, To conclude,
Additionally, Specifically,
Because (of) Therefore, In conclusion,
In addition,
Since Subsequently, To summarize,
Moreover,
Given that Consequently, To sum up,
Furthermore,
While As a consequence, In summary,
Another point is,
Though Therefore, In short,
Thirdly,
As Hence, In a nutshell,
Finally,
Thus, To put it briefly,
Lastly,
All in all,
All things considered,
Overall,
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Vocabulary Bank (2/2)
Sequencing Introducing visuals
Let's turn our attention to the infographic on the screen.
Past: Present: Future:
Allow me to show you this bar graph.
Previously, Nowadays, Looking forward,
I'd like you to take a look at this diagram.
Historically, Lately, In the (near) future,
Today we'll be using this chart to illustrate ...
Formerly, Today, Moving ahead,
If you examine this image on the screen, you will notice ...
Back then, Contemporarily, Next,
Please take a moment to consider this table.
In the olden days, Currently, Then,
To illustrate my point, let's watch a short video clip.
Back in the day, Presently, Soon,
In the past, At present, Before long,
A while ago, Now, In due time, Explaining visuals
At one time (in the past), Generally speaking, In a short time, As you can see on this bar graph, ...
Until now, Sometimes, Forthwith, As you can see on the screen, the data shows us that...
Since, This time, Eventually, These figures clearly show us...
In days gone past, Without delay, In particular, I'd like to draw your attention to...
Recently, According to the research above, we can determine that...
During [period], Based on our findings, we are ready to conclude that...
In detail, this chart points out

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Presentations Checklist
CONTENT VISUALS DELIVERY
Start strong Design simple slides Practice for clear speech
Use the rule of three Add the main message to slides Use simple language
Prepare a clear structure Use relevant images Use short, concise sentences
Decide your WHAT, WHY, NEXT Ensure image & color consistency Make pauses; don't rush
Add strong and frequent recaps Use intensity to guide attention Use transition phrases
High contrast colors Paraphrase the message
Be human; add anecdotes

Optimize your presentations with this checklist.

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