Presentation Skills
Presentation Skills
Presentation Skills
by Guy Kawasaki
Dos and Don’ts of Presentation
DOs
• Prepare yourself (rehearse, collect relevant info. about your project)
• Audience analysis (expectations, background, etc.)
• Convert descriptive headlines to headlines that sell
• Show benefits, not features
• Tell-Tell-Tell
• Elevator speech
• Use personal anecdotes
Dos and Don’ts of Presentation Contd..
DON’Ts
• Do not read from your slides
• Too much info. (technical, financial, product details)
• Too many colors and animations
• Not getting to your key idea/s quickly
• Do not speak in a monotonous voice / too low / too fast
• Do not use too much fillers (you know, well, ummm, alright, …)
Presenting Data / Visuals
Age-wise Distribution of Employees 25-30 Not
10%
Yrs.
Enough
Percent (%)
Too Many
More than 55 years 15 45-55 Yrs.
30%
Between 45 to 55 years 30 35-45 Yrs.
25%
Between 35 to 45 years 25
Between 30 to 35 years 20
55+ Yrs.
Between 25 to 30 years 10 15%
30-35 Yrs.
20%
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Use few words
• Our long term vision is to get into the top 5 in paints sector at global
level and for this we need to expand steadily but regularly.
• Aim to become Top 5
• Paints sector
• Explore new markets internationally
Elevator Speech/ Elevator pitch
• Initiation and communicating seriousness and
urgency/Summary/ Introduction : Basic relevant information
• Future scope: What will you say which will make the listener
wanting to know more
Elevator Speech - Example
Your manager asks, “How’s are the new engineers who have
joined the Operations department performing?”