| Top 10 Tips to help you Plan and Design and | | | | to develop further in the middle and three key |
| Prepare for your Presentation | | | | points to make at the end. Your middle can |
| Next time you are faced with the daunting | | | | further expand on the three points with three |
| prospect of having to write a presentation, try | | | | additional points each. etc |
| out these tips from Skillstudio and you'll be | | | | 6. Brainstorm the likely questions you will be |
| surprised at just how effective they can be at | | | | asked by your audience. Prepare answers using |
| helping to design and prepare for a presentation. | | | | the Power of three. |
| | | | 7. Try using a mind map to help you organise |
| 1. Prepare Prepare Prepare - The more time you | | | | your ideas into logical chunks. The clearer your |
| spend preparing your presentation beforehand the | | | | thinking is the easier it should be to understand |
| more confident you will be on the day. | | | | when you are presenting. |
| 2. Get to know your audience. Put yourself in their | | | | 8. Avoid the trap of preparing for your |
| shoes. What's in it for them? What understanding | | | | presentation at the last possible minute. It will only |
| do they currently have? Do they want a detail or | | | | mean you lose a night's sleep - on the night |
| strategic level talk from you? | | | | before you have to present! |
| 3. What's the one key goal you want to achieve | | | | 9. Lead your audience through your presentation |
| by giving this presentation? Make sure that this is | | | | using sign-posting. Recap on what you've just |
| clear to your audience at the beginning and end of | | | | covered and then use rhetorical questions to |
| the presentation. | | | | move onto the next section. Always summarise |
| 4. Split your presentation into a beginning a middle | | | | your main points just prior to the end of your |
| and an end. Use the middle section to develop | | | | presentation. |
| your ideas. | | | | 10. Plan to end your presentation with a call to |
| 5. Remember the power of three. Wherever | | | | action, a request for a decision to be made, or |
| possible think of things in threes. eg three key | | | | whatever you believe is the most appropriate |
| points to make at the beginining, three key points | | | | means to achieve your overall goal. |