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Essentials of presentation - 102

P ower of the spoken word Picture this. You are outside the examination hall. You are doing the all- too-familiar last minute cramming. Your mind is sore. And you need to quickly process a concept. What do you do? You simply walk up to your friend who has already internalised it and you ask him/her to summarise. Surprise! Surprise! What you thought which was hitherto difficult to understand, much less process, is suddenly so simple to understand. That is the power of the spoken word. This is precisely what your audience expects from you, the resident expert. Your audience cannot process the finer details right off the bat. They need the big picture, and they need you to deliver it to them. Don't give them everything. They can't take it all. The ones who need more, would get it anyway, from Google or from you; during Q&A. That way, you only give what is relevant to each one of them. I am based out of Hyderabad. Get in touch with me for making your presentations be...

Essentials of presentation - 101

You the man! Yes folks. You have heard it right. You the man! (or woman!) When it comes to presentations, you are the key. Not the PowerPoint presentation you have so meticulously prepared. Not the snazzy graphics in your slides. Not the mindblowing facts on your slides. Not the earth-shattering charts showing increasing numbers. You. YOU are the key. Your audience are here to listen to you. If you are simply reading out the bullets on your presentation, you are a distraction. Your PowerPoint presentation should act only as a visual aid to what you are trying to say. You need not be their hearing aid. So don’t be a distraction. Be you. Spend more time analysing the ‘you’ instead of dressing up the ‘PowerPoint’. I am based out of Hyderabad. Get in touch with me for making your presentations better. - Arjun TheQuestionGuide@gmail.com