Your 5 - 8 MinutePresentation

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Confidence versus fearSymptoms of fear or high stressPrevention / reducing symptoms

The audience is on your sideDon’t worry about being great

Don’t worry about being perfectJust be yourself

Your 5-8 minute presentation

Determine a topic

Decide the purpose of your presentationWhat do you want to make the audience

think, feel, or do by the time you conclude?

Decide on two or three main points

Do your researchYour experiencesCollege sources

MagazinesNews

InternetBe careful here!!!

You don’t understand it untilyou can put it in your own words

and explain it in a way your grandparents can understand.

Mike’s Rule on Research Material:

Potential MaterialsYour stories (experience)

Analogies (comparison of dissimilar things)Anecdotes (other peoples’ stories)

FactsStatistics

Use whatsticks to peoples’

brains

What Sticks What doesn’tSimple Complex

Concrete AbstractEmotional Stoic

Unexpected PredictableStories Facts

Put it in order

Presentation Structure• Introduction• Body

– Point 1– Point 2– Point 3

• Conclusion

5 - 8 minute Presentation

Men speak around 125 words a minuteWomen speak around 150 words per minute

When you’re nervous, you speak faster!

Intro Point 1 ConclusionPoint 2 Point 3

1minute

3 - 6minutes

1minute

125 words (m)150 words (w)

125 words (m)150 words (w)

375 - 750 words (m)450 - 900 words (w)

Body

5 - 8 minute Presentation

Transitions

Intro Point 1 ConclusionPoint 2 Point 3

Q&AConnect and

Grab Attention!

Reconnect andGrab Attention!

The first 30 Seconds are critical!

Jolt

The conclusion is as critical as the intro!

Choosing your presentation title

Presentation Secrets• Talk to me, not us!• The first and last 30 seconds are critical• Get to the point quickly• Transition Smoothly • Using Humor• Using visual aids

– PowerPoint – Props

Preparing to Deliver

• Don’t procrastinate!• Rehearsing

– How much should you rehearse?– Where should you rehearse?– Who can you rehearse to?– What can help you rehearse?

• Record the speech and rehearse while it plays!

The day of your presentation

• Mental Preparation• Watch what you eat!• Music soothes – use it!

– You’d better be good to me!– Danger Zone– Let’s Get it Started in Here

Delivering Your Presentation• If you feel nervousness or panic set in, calm

yourself!• Talk to me, not us• Look at the audience• Find friendly faces• Keep your hands out of pockets• Never point into the audience• Have fun!

Let’s talk a little about humor.

The room and seating makes a difference.

Time of day, recent events, and many other factors can make differences too.

Women laugh more freelythan men.

More women in the audiencemeans more and faster laughing.

Larger rooms with moreopen space tend to result

in less laughter.

The point is not to get rattled if you don’t get the laughs you expected.

Allow time for laughsif you use humor.

Allow more “laugh time” for larger audiences.

What makes people laugh?

Exaggeration

Pain

Sudden release of tension.

Surprise(sudden redirection)

or better known asa setup and punch line.

Henny Youngman

“I’ve been in love with the same womanfor 30 years”

“if my wife finds out, she’ll kill me!”

Keep humor in short bursts.

Never use long storiesto set up a punch line.

Never, ever use jokes...

or unrelated, forced humor.

Find the humor in the situation.

Use observational humor.

Words with a hard “K” soundare funny.

Cupcake is funny sounding.Tomato isn’t.

Finally, laughing at yourselfis the safest humor.

Wrap-Up

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Questions?

Putting a 5 - 8 Minute Presentation Together