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3 Things to Check to Stop your Presentation from turning into a Flop Show

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WHY PRESENTATIONS FAIL?

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You do your best yet your presentation fails

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WHY?

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ONE BIG QUESTIONLets know the answer

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Three areas where you make mistakes

1. Your knowledge

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Three areas where you make mistakes

2. Your slides

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Three areas where you make mistakes

3. Your way of presentation

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Got all mixed up?

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Lets fix it up with a quick look at mistakes to avoid in a presentation

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Um, Er, Ugh…No idea what to say?

Mistake 1:You just don’t know your topic

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Or you memorized every bit of itAnd now spewing it all out

Blah, Blah, Blah…

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ESSENTIAL TIP:Be FAMILIAR with the TOPIC,Don’t memorize

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Memorizing will lead to dressing your turkey with ice cream toppings.Knowing it all well ^ _ ^Presenting it all wrong!!

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Or Questions will leave you“THUNDERSTRUCK!!!”

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ESSENTIAL TIP:Dig in deep. Be ready.Face the questions with answers.

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Mistake 2:Your slides are at fault

Is it too exotic to be true?This happens when you’ve mismatched your story and the topic.

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ESSENTIAL TIP:Stick to your main point. Prepare your story slides the way they match with your topic.

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Are you offering INFORMATION OVERLOAD??Each slide looks like – A 500 pages long fiction Or A 1000 pages long user manual

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Don’t overburden your slides with Information.Stick to one message per slide

Don’t OVERFILL your slides

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Give information in smaller chunks.Don’t Add Details…Details…Details…

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Your presentation also has a verbal part, if you’ll fit in all the information on the slides, there’s be no

more any need to speak.

Your slides are your visual aids not the whole show.

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Keep words simple, sentences uncomplicated. Avoid bigger paragraphs, use bullets.

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Don’t force your audience to take ASPRIN

Is reading your fonts a stressful exercise for eyes?

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Don’t create a modern art with your font typeface.Keep them STRAIGHTFORWARD

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Your fonts aren’t super models. Don’t size them “ZERO FIGURE” Don’t make them “ILLEGIBLE”

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Presentation is not the place to play with colors.Don’t ELECTRIFY your audience with gaudy colors.Keep them sober, serene, soothing.

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Mistake 3: You don’t carry yourself well.

What kind of presenter you are?Cool, Boring Or Professional

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Don’t present in a hurry, you’re missing your flight, are you?If you’ve to board the next flight, better leave the presentation for someone else.

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Deliver. Don’t Rush. Don’t make waves for your audience.Speaking super fast may skip out the core message from reaching your audience.

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ESSENTIAL TIP:Maintain a pace, practice before the actual presentation.Record your voice and listen how fast you speak.

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Do you inspire your audience to fall asleep?Are you too slow?

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Does it ever happen that when you start telling a thing, it has already appeared on the slides? This will surely make people fall asleep!

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ESSENTIAL TIP:Be clear with what to speak. Make a mental picture.This will help you speak with power and authority.

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What is your style?

A Slouch Supermodel Business Executive

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Neither be a slouch nor a model. Being executive is a better option. But, trying to be a speaker at the first is the best.

If you’ll be slouch, nobody will pay attention to you. If you’re a super-model Type, you’ll be a show stealer, but you’ll

steal the effect of your message too.

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ESSENTIAL TIPS:1. Dress right, speak bright.2. Avoid sluggish clothes, voguish hair style, jingling jewelry, and unprofessional get up.3. Take a shower, dress right, look elegant. Make sure your audience focus on your message and not on you.

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