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KnowKnow your AudienceKnow YourselfKnow your Purpose
– Inform or Teach?• Expository (present information)• Narrative (explain a process or sequence)• Descriptive (describe)
– Inspire/Motivate– Persuade (convince with logic and evidence )
• ALL business presentations should persuade– At minimum: I’m good, I should get a raise!
Inspirationalvs.
Instructional
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Principles• Assert Copyright © Year Name
• Variety is the Spice of Life• Clarity vs. Precision
– “A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation”—Saki
• Match Formality to the Situation–Sales should be slick–Layoff Notice should not be
Copyright © 2010 Patrick McDermott
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How to Make Music
“Mozart is said to have conceived ideas and immediately known how every note would fall in a symphony.
Beethoven, on the other hand, would write a theme and then sit down at the piano and play different variations until he had one he liked just right.”
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Outline or Bricolage?1. Stephen J. Gould’s Outline [Mozart]2. Sherry Turkle’s Bricolage [Beethoven]
– Harder to estimate: ChaosSudden Emergence– cf. Refactoring
• Cary Pepper’s Russian Inn: People & Place• Random re-arrangement
– It might not matter as much as you think– CEOs, Mountain climbers, Tarantino & Juries
The bricole was a medieval machine for throwing stones [Bricks]
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How Much Preparation
Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
5 Minutes All Day
The key to avoiding Nervousness:
Be Prepared
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When to Get There
Aim to Arrive at the Presentation Venue
ONE HOUR
Prior to the start time
Show up early, something good is bound to happen. —Edward Tufte
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The Eyes Have It• Find some Friendly Faces
– Center– Left Front (or back)– Right Back (or front)
• Go for it!• As you loosen up, find more faces
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Never, Ever
Never Ever Say:
I Know You can’t Read This
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Don’t Admit Nothin’• If you make a presentation error, simply correct it.• Don’t accentuate the negative
– “I forgot to tell you”– “I already told you”– “I’m really nervous”– etc.
• They don’t know what you were going to say– They won’t know you forgot– If it wasn’t important, forget it!– I always forget something…
• That’s my Story – & I’m Sticking to it!
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Crisp Phrases• Crows the Count 7; Typist type 5-7 ahead• G.A. Miller’s famous “7 plus or minus 2”
hypothesis
• 6 by 6: No more than 6 Bullets of 6 Words
• Excessively lengthy and pedantic bullet points are known to correlate negatively with valid comprehensional objectives.
• In other words...
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K.I.S.S.
Keep It Simple,Stupid
Newton’s Telecom DictionaryIt’s not Just for Phoning!