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Put Power in Your Presentations: Public Speaking & PowerPoint EffectivenessSummer Jurrells & Jessica AriesBickerstaff Heath Delgado Acosta LLP3711 S. MoPac Expressway,Building One, Suite 300Austin, TX 78746P: [email protected]@Bickerstaff.com

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Road Map• How to Engage

Your Audience• Guide to

Successful Presentations

• Public Speaking Tips & Tricks

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“Nazarene General Assembly 2013,” by Jake Guild, Available under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/), color and effects alterations.

How to engage your audience.




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E.D.I.T. Process• Experience• Describe• Infer• Transfer


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Steps for Building aGreat Presentation

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Identify Your Audience1 L


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Questions to Consider•Who is your audience?•What topic are you addressing?•What might distract your audience?•What information would they find valuable?


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An Audience-Centered Purpose Evokes Action2

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General Purpose• Inform or Persuade

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Specific Purpose• Call to action• Support• Negotiate• Inspire




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I want my audience to ____________________________________.Support a new Human Resources initiativeMake available the best vendor contract for my firmFeel inspired to seek professional development opportunitiesPromote new firm policies

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Strategies to Try

TOP LISTS

TELL A STORY

CHECKLISTS &

GUIDES

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Developing your visual aid.3 N


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The Bad

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69JZD60eR6s


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The Good

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YObAhx0cBs


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Humans have dual processing capabilities: visual & auditory.

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Visual image should communicate, not decorate. ^


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Images should:• Be Meaningful• Relate to Slides• Be Consistent• Simplify Complex

Information

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Find Great Images for Free:• Flickr: Creative Commons Search*• Pexels: Creative Commons Zero License• Unsplash: Creative Commons Zero•Webdings, Wingdings, etc. Character Maps: https://speakingpowerpoint.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/finally-a-printable-character-map-of-the-wingdings-fonts/

*Creative Commons photos have varying attribution requirements and use specifications. Be sure to read the license for each photo to ensure you are using it within the license’s specifications.


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How to Design Your Slides

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Color Matters.

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Keep It Simple• Avoid flashy images and noisy animation

effects• Simple font

•Consistent Style/Theme


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The 6 x 6 Rule

^6x6WORD

SLINES


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Complex content belongs in a paper, not on a screen. 4


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How to Re-design Slides with too much Information

3 QuestionsRegional Water Plans

How much water do we need?How much water do we currently have?How will we meet the projected demand?

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3 QuestionsRegional Water Plans

How much water do we need?How much water do we currently have?How will we meet the projected demand?

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Break Up Information into Digestible Points


Indirect Reuse of Wastewater

Municipal

SIrrigation

@Industrial

Indirect Reuse


Indirect Reuse of Wastewater

Municipal

SIrrigation

@Industrial

Indirect Reuse


Use Shapes and Images consistently to break up Text and Information


Water Supplier needs a Bed and Banks permit from TCEQ’s Water Availability Team for Wastewater from:

•Privately-owned groundwater source•Source outside the basin

Indirect Reuse > Bed and Bank Authorization

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Water Supplier needs a Bed and Banks permit from TCEQ’s Water Availability Team for Wastewater from:

•Privately-owned groundwater source•Source outside the basin


TEX. WATER CODE § 11.042.

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Acosta LLP

When adding a lot of information on a slide, keep graphics simple.



Special conditions may be included to protect instream uses and freshwater inflows to bays and estuaries.



Special conditions may be included to protect instream uses and freshwater inflows to bays and estuaries.


Use transparent boxes to make text on graphic heavy backgrounds readable.


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Public Speaking:Tips & Tricks


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Nonverbal Delivery

• Visual Delivery• Audible/Vocal Delivery


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Visual Delivery matters.

Eye Contact

Physical Deliverygestures, movement, posture

Facial Expressions

Physical Appearance



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Speech Patterns

Articulation

Volume

Rate

Vocal Disfluency

It’s all in how you say it.


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Rehearing Tips• Eye Contact- you can’t fake it

•Movement- The Public Speaking Triangle

• Appearance- Audience Rule

• Prepare- you can’t wing it

• Practice, Practice, Practice-no really, PRACTICE


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Let’s Review.




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Checklist for How to Start:

1) Identify Your Audience2) Purpose Action3) Develop Visual Aids


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Checklist for Designing:1) Color Matters2) Keep Your Slides Simple & Clean3) Consistent Theme & Images4) The 6 x 6 Rule for Content5) Use Handouts for Complex

Information


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Checklist for Delivery:1) Your Nonverbal Communication

is Critical2) What Your Audience Sees Will

Stick3) How You Say Something May Be

More Important than What You Say

4) Preparation & Practice Will Soothe Speaking Apprehension


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Jessica Aries, J.D., LL.M.Marketing [email protected]@JessDAries

Summer Jurrells, M.A.Human Resources [email protected]@ssjurrells

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