How to prepare an informative presentationBY: BEN FAZIO

Identify your goal

Increase what the audience knows. Teach information that they will find useful. Demonstrate something useful. Show how it relates in space. Arouse interest in uninteresting topics.

Create information hunger

Ask rhetorical questions

Questions that are asked for effect. With no answer expected. They get the audience thinking.

Make the information relevant

Importance Novelty Usefulness

Revealing extrinsic motivation

Reasons outside the presentation for listening.

Informative content

Main points, sub points, illustrations, examples. The audience focuses on generalizations.

Reference

Pearson, J., Nelson, P., Titsworth, S., & Harter, L. (2011). Human Communication (4th ed.). New York, New York: Mcgraw-Hill.