Spring Semester Revision Notes 2: Presenting

1. You must become an excellent presenter in order to make your case, build your personal presence/brand and overcome your demons.
2. Presenting is not reading PowerPoint slides. Write out 500 times.
3. Excellent presenting is giving people a damn good reason why they should spend some of their life listening to you rather than being elsewhere.
4. Give them value which they could not get elsewhere: googling, reading an e-mail.....
5. Help them 'get it' by clear stucture and brilliant story telling.
6. Clear structure requires preparation.
7. Think film director; what is happening every minute of your talk and why?
8. Brilliant story telling requires practise. Relentless practise.
9. Practise of voice, pace and points.
10. Review Presenting 101
11. Read Love Presenting Hate (Badly Used) PowerPoint for a comprehensive guide to awesome presenting.
12. Becoming an excellent presenter will guarantee you the career you want and will keep the demons at bay. If you can overcome your fear of this, much will seem easy in the world of work....

Bonus: Revision Notes 1: Productivity