Impactful Presentations

Core Points

• Why should the audience care?
• Why are they listening to you?
• Why does it matter?
• What’s your point?

Grab Your Audience’s Attention

• Share something intriguing about you
• Share an impactful statistic
• Use the word “imagine”
• Ask a rhetorical question
• Share a quick story

Storytelling is an Art

1. Understand your audience and frame your story
2. There must be a beginning, middle, and end
3. You must have a theme
4. You must have characters
5. Show, don’t tell

Don’t

• Read slides or presentation
  • Reading vs. presenting
• Make the Presentation Your Own

Do

• Look at audience
• Smile
• Be passionate
• Lead the audience with leading questions