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The document outlines guidelines for creating effective presentations, emphasizing structure, audience engagement, and preparation. Key elements include a clear title slide, a provocation to hook the audience, and a well-organized body with main points supported by evidence. It also stresses the importance of visual aids, stage presence, and anticipating audience questions during the Q&A session.

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Presentations

The document outlines guidelines for creating effective presentations, emphasizing structure, audience engagement, and preparation. Key elements include a clear title slide, a provocation to hook the audience, and a well-organized body with main points supported by evidence. It also stresses the importance of visual aids, stage presence, and anticipating audience questions during the Q&A session.

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Dr. Will Kurlinkus
Making Sure
We Can
Find
Sources
Source Checklist, In
Date Range, Popular and
Academic
Where Do I Find
Solutions?
1. Scholar.google.com
2. Type your search “simplifying data
presentations for clients”
3. If you don’t get hits rephrase
4. Set your date range to fit your
resources (2020)
5. Ideally use the advanced search
button to search your field:
"simplifying data presentations for
clients:real estate”
6. Think about other fields that might
have the same problem: I’m talking
about presenting medical advice to
kids, who else has to teach kids
complex subjects? Teachers.
What Are Our
Presentations
?
Teach Us How to Do
Your
Communication
Challenge Solution
in the Best Way
Review of Presentation
Requirements

• Length: 4-4:30-–it has to be within this range!

• In PowerPoint: One idea per page—no lists!

• 5 Required Slides (you should have more):


1. Title Slide with Title of Presentation, Your Name, Date
2. Outline/Preview Slide with in this presentation I will talk about these things
3. At least one body slide
4. Summative Conclusion
5. Works Cited Slide

• Must use 5 sources and talk about 3

• Must be useful to the class

• Clearly prepared: not making it up on the spot, not reading from the powerpoint, no notecards

• Needs to have some opening hook, story, exigence for why this presentation

• Stage Presence: Eye contact, walking around, business attire

• Good Q&A

• Things I really care about: Teach me something interesting. a specific example(s)—one company, etc.,
some steps with examples. I don’t want to see advice not grounded in an example.
Your Presentation’s
Required Structure

1. Title Slide
2. A provocation (Hook): illustrate a
problem, trend, or exigence that your
project is addressing (& why it’s
important)
3. A research question and
signposting statement (preview
what are you going to answer and
show us first, second, third)
4. Make 2-3 Main Points: Point,
Evidence, Analysis. Examples and
Proof are most important.
5. A conclusion: why does this matter
to the class? where do we go from
here? What do we do with this info?
6. Q & A with Appendix
Present With Use in Mind:
Think Carefully About What
Your Audience Knows &
Wants to Know

• What does the class need to


know to understand your topic?
• What do they already know? Cut
info they likely have.
• Consider what will be most
appropriate & useful for the
class.
• Use key concrete details to
explain the issue.
• What details do we need to act
or be persuaded?
FROM/TO THINK/DO MATRIX

From To

What is your
What do you want them
Think audience thinking
to think?
now?

What is your What do you want them


Do
audience doing now? to do?

9
Before Your Presentation

• Brief people before your presentation: what do you want them to prepare, do, read,
think about, or ask. You’ll get better questions that way.

• Take notes on other presentations before you—think, how can I connect to one of
these other speakers, if only briefly.

• Your presentation starts as you walk up, not when you officially start talking. Opening
up your slide prep, making small talk with your audience, etc.

• Things to be avoid as you step up to bat:


o Apologetic beginning (I’m pretty nervous so I hope you’ll bear with me; I’m not
sure that I’m qualified; Sorry the room is too small.)
o Excessively flattering openings (I am deeply humble to stand before such an
illustrious group.)
o Gimmicky beginning (– “Now that I have your attention.”)
o Statements like “Before I begin” (you alrWrite SEX on blackboard eady have), “I
did not have time to prepare my comments” (so why are you speaking) or “When
I gave this speech last week” (Let me think I’m special.)
o Wrong names (If you have to acknowledge a VIP, do it as the second item in your
introduction, and be sure you have the names correct.)
Your Body as A Presenter
1. Choose three focal points in the room for eye contact
2. Face the audience not the PowerPoint: Don’t read the
PowerPoint and don’t stand in front of it.
3. Realize your most important points and give beats, slow
down, get loud (or quiet).
4. Are there props you can pass around/show?
5. Be aware of how your body is moving in space. Walk
around. Come out from behind the podium. Interact
with the audience.
6. Bring copies of your presentation
Groups of 3: Make 1 Bad and 1 Good
Example
A provocation (Hook)

• Begin by provoking your audience by showing me something:


• Tell an interesting story (about a problem failure, that poses a mystery)
• Trigger imagination (what if…)
• Provide a shocking fact or statistic about
• Break with a commonly held belief
• Ask a question that is meaningful to your audience
• Make an offer to solve a problem that you know your audience faces
• Make an audience say, “wait what?”
• In the business world, this provocation is usually your statement of need. Show
me why you are presenting, the problem you are about to solve with your
presentation in an interesting clear way.
• Don’t forget to actually show me. Put an image up or a phrase up. This is not the
time to have a list.
Title Slide
• Title, Your Name, Date, Contact
• Title is benefit oriented
• Title clearly tells me what the presentation is about
• Visualize

• Consider, what comes first title slide or hook. You


might start with your story and then say, my name is
Will Kurlinkus and today I’m going to solve this
problem by talking about this.
Intro &
signposting
statement
• This should always come after
your hook.
• Signpost: First I’ll talk about
this, then this, then this.
• This is one of the very few times
where a bulleted list is OK.
• Make this fast.
Make 2-3 Points:
How To/Best Way To

• PEA: One slide for each


• Point: Make a claim.
• Evidence: Show me an example and
some research on that claim in action.
• Analysis: Show me how I can benefit
from that claim, how to apply it, or what
to do about it.
• Callbacks: call back your opening example
story or question. Solve it, refer to it, etc.
• Transition: So we’ve seen this, but what about
this? Now that we’ve talked about x, it’s still
important to consider y.
1. More Slides Less
Text: Don’t Use
Bullets Unless
Necessary to Show A
Relationship/Process
2. Visualize Information
If At All Possible: Talk
About An Example
You’re Showing US.
Chart, Graph, Picture
of a Person, Journey
Map, etc.
3. Make Visuals &
Text Legible/Big
Enough. If I can’t
read it why are
you showing me?
Conclusion

• Assume you’ve lost your audience at some


point, so bring them back in.
• Be sure to cue your conclusion: To
conclude…
• Summarize Quickly
• Call back your opening if needed
• Call to Action: Tell me what to do with this
information. Make sure your audience leaves
knowing what they should do, what next
steps are, how to solve the problem in their
own lives, etc.
• “Thank you, any questions?”
Q&A: You will answer
three questions

• Acknowledge the Question & Restate so


Everyone Can Here if needed (often if you’re in a
larger room not everyone knows what question
was asked).
• Refer to something specific: An example, piece
of data, slide, or appendix
• Confirm that you’ve answered the question
• Ask for a rephrase: If you don’t understand the
question, ask them to rephrase.
• If you don’t know the answer: It’s ok to say you
don’t know and you’ll get back to them.
• Don’t Run Off: Conclude formally by thanking
again before you leave the stage.
Anticipate Questions
or Concerns

• What will be their first question?


• What will be their biggest concern?
• What evidence will they find most
persuasive?
• When should you address their
questions & concerns in the
presentation?
• What will you put in the appendix to
prepare?

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