to the board of directors. It has got to last 15 minutes and I can choose how to deliver it, powerpoint, flipchart, hand-outs, whatever, anybody got any good advice I could use? I think I will need all the help I can get! (dunno)
Well....15 mins wants to be around 5 or 6 slides. Don't be too wordie on each just bullet points and fill in the detail from you knowledge. If using Powerpoint, don't try to be too flash with special effects but do try and bring in each bullet as you click the mouse....this stops people reading ahead and not listening. To avoid reading ahead hand out the slides after you finish, they concentrate on you and what you are saying that way. General points....An intro slide....date, subject, who you are Agenda slide, what you are going to cover.... The body of the presentation a summary slide...main points you want them to remember !! As for questions its up to you .... ask as you go along or save to end.....
Powerpoint and handouts. Its the only way. I find the powerpoint really takes the pressure off you too.
Powerpoint tip <div>Don't just repeat what is written on the slides.</div><div>Say something in addition to what is shown there.</div>
powerpoint be sure you know how to use it keep slides simple and don't talk in bullet points - make sure you expand on your slide points keep transitions to one or two styles rehearse timings and remember people speak faster when nervous On the newer version of powerpoint there is a kind of book presentation you could use as an alternative to projector. It would need to be well presented - good quality paper and print but that would be another good option.
Powerpoint I've given a few presentations togroups of people over the last few years. Use the slides to show a point then build on it - there's nothing worse than reading out what's written on the screen - so boring and insulting. Tip - take a print out of the presentation just in case - and keep a back up.
If you know your stuff and are confident with your subject presenting shouldn't be feared. All you are doing is telling someone what you need them to know. The presentation material (flip charts, projectors) are visual aids to help get your point across. If there's loads of detail you need them to remember and take away or you have a spreadsheet of figure ... give them a handout, you don't need to cram it all into a PowerPoint presentation If you do a PowerPoint, realistically you can't do justice to more than 10 slides in 15 minutes (people are always tempted to do more) ... always have a conclusion/summary slide at the end which wraps it up and leaves in their head what you want them to take away and remember from what you've just said (action point, costs, findings, ... that sort of stuff). If you don't sumarise at the end, the important stuff you said at the beginnig and in the middle can get lost.
Thanks chaps, some good tips there..I'll let you know how i get on. The subject is Nutrition for Pets, not too exciting I know but I work for Pets at Home.