Presentation training session (summary)

Slide 1 of 15: PRESENTATION TRAINING SESSION This document is the summary of the presentation training session held and the HELCOM Secretariat on 31st October 2018 Organize…

Slide 2 of 15: Table of contents page page page page page 3 4 7 12 13 Why this training and Part 1 Activity to define a Part 2 Basic ideas Part 3 Examples to Take-away mess…

Slide 3 of 15: We spend a lot of time making presentations so it is funny how Why this training little time we spend talking and discussing about it. We all agree and what’…

Slide 4 of 15: Part 1 Activity to define a good presentation People were divided in four groups. The aim was to reflect in 15 minutes what a good presentation is and write…

Slide 5 of 15: Attaching post-its to the wall started an interesting exchange of points of views. Most of the ideas exposed were about: • taking into account the audience i…

Slide 6 of 15: • Be yourself: it doesn’t make sense to pretend you are perfect because you are not. Nobody is. And that’s fine. In fact that’s very good—the audience connec…

Slide 7 of 15: Step 1 Think about the audience Part 2 We all agreed that this is very important but we sometimes Basic ideas don&#x27;t pay enough attention. When we prepare our…

Slide 8 of 15: Step 2 Make a story This is one of the most important parts of the presentation. They key is to have a structure in three parts: beginning, middle and end Be…

Slide 9 of 15: Example: A presentation about HELCOM for an audience that has little or no knowledge would be divided in these three parts: Beginning Middle End The Baltic S…

Slide 10 of 15: How to do a story? One option is to stay away from Powerpoint and start brainstorming our ideas in paper. The advantage of this is that you don’t get distrac…

Slide 11 of 15: The objective of drafting your thoughts is to find the beginning, middle and end of your story. You could put your ideas on post-its thinking that each post-…

Slide 12 of 15: Overcrowded slides Part 3 Slides sometimes suffer from having too much information. Examples to design There are some ways to make them less crowded: better…

Slide 13 of 15: Main takeaways A good presentation has a We should share our Session about good structure presentations designing slides What does the audience want All pres…

Slide 14 of 15: There are endless books about Three book presentations out there. Here there are three that might interest you. recommendations Presentation Zen Designing Sc…

Slide 15 of 15: Sweet end The session felt better with a traditional Finnish pulla with Halloween candies. It was eaten by: Monika Stankiewicz, Riina Kero, Alexey Bakhtov, D…