with the new concept before beginning to explain and describe individual products Use language with a meaning to the audience and develop short sentences. By contrast, with groups of colleagues you should be able to use industry terminology safe in the knowledge they understand what you are talking about. It should also be safe to use specific in-house terms, abbreviations and acronyms but this may be totally inappropriate and ineffective if the same presentation was being made to outsiders Make sure the information is presented in an informative and interesting manner. You are not asked to be entertainer’ but the presentation itself ‘an should be entertaining and informative: This highlights the need for you to pay attention, in the planning phase, not only to what you are going to say but how you are going to say and present it A fundamental requirement of any presentation is that you do not send the audience to sleep! Slide No Trainer Notes Trainer continues to provide trainees with advice when writing a draft for a presentation: Identify where information can be more appropriately presented with the use of visual aids. After all they say a picture is worth a thousand words and this is often the case in a presentation: An actual product or sample is worth ten thousand words You can be more effective in your representation of statistics if you show a graphic containing a chart or a table rather than reel off a series of statistics and you can be more effective in your description of a product if you show a photograph or hand around an actual sample Once the main body of your presentation has been written, go back and the introduction and the ending/summary: Note the sequence in which the presentation is planned, does not follow the sequence in which it is delivered. The body is always written first and the introduction and the ending follow Never try to write the introduction first, then the main body First draft will always have to be changed before the actual briefing takes place. A successful presentation often has the draft presentation worked and re-worked numerous times. This is all part of the planning and preparation process and is to be expected. Class Activity Individual Exercise –
with the new concept before beginning to explain and describe individual products Use language with a meaning to the audience and develop short sentences. By contrast, with groups of colleagues you should be able to use industry terminology safe in the knowledge they understand what you are talking about. It should also be safe to use specific in-house terms, abbreviations and acronyms but this may be totally inappropriate and ineffective if the same presentation was being made to outsiders Make sure the information is presented in an informative and interesting manner. You are not asked to be ‘an entertainer’ but the presentation itself should be entertaining and informative: This highlights the need for you to pay attention, in the planning phase, not only to what you are going to say but how you are going to say and present it A fundamental requirement of any presentation is that you do not send the audience to sleep! Slide No Trainer Notes Trainer continues to provide trainees with advice when writing a draft for a presentation: Identify where information can be more appropriately presented with the use of visual aids. After all they say a picture is worth a thousand words and this is often the case in a presentation: An actual product or sample is worth ten thousand words You can be more effective in your representation of statistics if you show a graphic containing a chart or a table rather than reel off a series of statistics and you can be more effective in your description of a product if you show a photograph or hand around an actual sample Once the main body of your presentation has been written, go back and the introduction and the ending/summary: Note the sequence in which the presentation is planned, does not follow the sequence in which it is delivered. The body is always written first and the introduction and the ending follow Never try to write the introduction first, then the main body First draft will always have to be changed before the actual briefing takes place. A successful presentation often has the draft presentation worked and re-worked numerous times. This is all part of the planning and preparation process and is to be expected. Class Activity – Individual Exercise
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