Formal Presentations on a variety of occasions have become a norm. Very Often these include PowerPoint presentations slides. The person who is presenting however, remains the main hero. Therefore it is very necessary that after you have made the PPT, your job has not ended, in fact your job has just begun.
In fact you must understand the fact that the flow of the particular content. The slides must match and also must be properly aligned to whatever you say. If it is carried out effectively, then presentations without a doubt becomes the most important activity in the field of persuasion. But that is possible only if you follow the following steps:
- You must be very committed to the subject and also to the proposition you are going to make.
- It has to be very professional, where you use your eye for detail as much as possible.
- Finally, you must be passionate about the subject and you must not allow your enthusiasm to melt down.
There are a lot of book about how to make presentation, but the best thing is not to be confused and adopt the above said principles.
It is very imperative to keep in mind your audience. The need of your audience, the likes and the dislikes of the audience and the language they understand and also speak. Having said that you must also ask yourself the following tough questions:
- Why are you giving or making the presentation?
- What are you going to say?
- As mentioned above, who are you going to say it to?
- Finally, most importantly, how you are going to say it?
We must keep in mind that even the best content, if delivered not properly , is a sheer waste like useless paper thrown in the waste paper basket.
Now let us also try to dwell on each of the above aspects:
- The answer to the question Why? Why are you giving the presentation or an explanation. It could also be just a letter or just a telephone call. However you have chosen it because of the need to bring all the decision maker together. When you contact them individually, it is very difficlut to bring about the same or the similar effect and result.
- Next point is what you are going to say and how you are going to generate the content. Needless to say, you must start with the unstructured drafts from all the relevant information. The following procedure will be helpful:
- Prioritising- Divide the material into:
- Must mean some thing that is essential to meet the objective.
- Should which means important or valuable but is not essential.
- Putting them in order- the sequence of your material of the various aspect of the proposition is critical. So therefore give maximum attention to it.
