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The Manager's Guide to Presentations

The Manager's Guide to Presentations

By : Lauren Hug
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Table of Contents (10 chapters)
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The Manager's Guide to Presentations
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The Manager's Guide to Presentations
Credits
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Credits
Foreword
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Foreword
About the Author
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About the Author
About the Reviewers
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About the Reviewers
Preface
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Preface
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Planning Your Presentation
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Planning Your Presentation
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The presentation planning process
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Beginning with you
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Addressing your concerns
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Setting your own personal goal
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Identifying your strengths
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Leveraging your management skills
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Setting your presentation goal
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Presentation parameters
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Summary
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Developing Your Presentation
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Developing Your Presentation
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What should you say in your presentation?
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What does the audience need to know?
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Why should your audience care?
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Why should your audience act?
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Why do you care?
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Organizing your presentation
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Opening
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Appealing to the audience
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Points (informing and persuading)
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Fleshing out your presentation
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Types of content
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A note about slides
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Including the audience in your presentation
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Introducing interaction
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Summary
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Practicing Your Presentation
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Practicing Your Presentation
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Speaking with authority
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Rehearsing your presentation
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Preparing for Q&A sessions
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Summary
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Giving Your Presentation
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Giving Your Presentation
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Before – Managing anxiety
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During – Connecting with your audience
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After – Obtaining feedback
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Points (informing and persuading)

Now comes the body of your presentation: your key points. These are the audience "must-knows" and the reasons to act (from your Content Development Worksheet) organized into an engaging flow:

  • Pair your reasons with corresponding or supporting facts. Try to consolidate them into roughly three main points.

  • Think about the order in which these key points should be presented. Does one logically precede another? Is one more compelling than another?

  • If there is a clear logical progression to the points, order them accordingly.

  • If a logical progression isn't required, always lead with your strongest point to ensure that the audience will absorb the most important content.

Call to action

Finally, your presentation should conclude with exactly what you want the audience to do. This is the presentation purpose you defined in Chapter 1, Planning Your Presentation.

And there you have it. The bare bones of your presentation are now compiled in an organized, easy-to-follow template...

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