{"id":804,"date":"2024-06-03T09:49:10","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T09:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vidwaan.simapt.com\/cxo-blog\/?p=804"},"modified":"2024-06-05T10:24:47","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T10:24:47","slug":"how-to-make-an-effective-presentation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vidwaan.simapt.com\/cxo-blog\/how-to-make-an-effective-presentation\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Make An Effective Presentation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-1 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p>Author: <strong>Ram Parthasarathy<\/strong><gwmw style=\"display: none; background-color: transparent;\"><\/gwmw><gwmw style=\"display: none; background-color: transparent;\"><\/gwmw><gwmw style=\"display:none;\"><\/gwmw><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-social-links is-layout-flex wp-block-social-links-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"wp-social-link wp-social-link-linkedin  wp-block-social-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ramparthasarathy\/\" class=\"wp-block-social-link-anchor\"><svg width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.1\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\"><path d=\"M19.7,3H4.3C3.582,3,3,3.582,3,4.3v15.4C3,20.418,3.582,21,4.3,21h15.4c0.718,0,1.3-0.582,1.3-1.3V4.3 C21,3.582,20.418,3,19.7,3z M8.339,18.338H5.667v-8.59h2.672V18.338z M7.004,8.574c-0.857,0-1.549-0.694-1.549-1.548 c0-0.855,0.691-1.548,1.549-1.548c0.854,0,1.547,0.694,1.547,1.548C8.551,7.881,7.858,8.574,7.004,8.574z M18.339,18.338h-2.669 v-4.177c0-0.996-0.017-2.278-1.387-2.278c-1.389,0-1.601,1.086-1.601,2.206v4.249h-2.667v-8.59h2.559v1.174h0.037 c0.356-0.675,1.227-1.387,2.526-1.387c2.703,0,3.203,1.779,3.203,4.092V18.338z\"><\/path><\/svg><span class=\"wp-block-social-link-label screen-reader-text\">LinkedIn<\/span><\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2024-06-03T09:49:10+00:00\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vidwaan.simapt.com\/cxo-blog\/how-to-make-an-effective-presentation\/\">June 3, 2024<\/a><\/time><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The ability to make an effective presentation is an important, yet often overlooked, skill.\u00a0<gwmw style=\"display: none; background-color: transparent;\"><\/gwmw><gwmw style=\"display:none;\"><\/gwmw><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>How often have we had to sit through a presentation where the presenter puts up slide after slide and fumblingly reads through line by line.\u00a0 Is there value in this?\u00a0 I think not.\u00a0 You may as well email the presentation to the attendees.\u00a0 So what makes a good presentation different from a mundane one?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol>\n<li>Homework: Research the customer or target audience.\u00a0 Understand what their problems and priorities are, and what value you can add to solve these problems. Structure the presentation to focus largely on these issues.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Keep only two or three major points in a slide.\u00a0 Don\u2019t read the slide, talk through each point, elaborate on what is written in the slide. Focus again on how this point will help resolve the issues being faced by the target audience.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Slides should focus on methodology and outcome.\u00a0 You should talk through these in detail but not include all that detail in the body of the slide.\u00a0 If you feel the base data is very important, put it in a back up slide and tell the audience that the data is available in a back up slide.\u00a0 Put a hyperlink to the data in the main slide. Flick briefly to the data slide to show them that it is there, and then flick back to the main slide.\u00a0 The idea is to arouse curiosity.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Keep the presentation light, informal, vary the tempo of presentation.\u00a0 Don\u2019t just drone on and on.\u00a0 Talk to the audience, do not talk at the audience.\u00a0 Remember, it\u2019s a presentation, not a lecture. Do not speak too fast.\u00a0 Speak slowly and clearly, taking care to enunciate every word, especially technical ones.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Encourage questions.\u00a0 That encourages participation.\u00a0 At every stage, ask if anyone has any queries, and pause to receive them.\u00a0 Some presenters ask the audience to wait for a Q&amp;A session at the end of the session, but my view is that in the process many interesting questions are lost.\u00a0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The more questions you get, the more successful your presentation is going to be.\u00a0 Do not react to negative comments or questions.\u00a0 There are always nay sayers in every group.\u00a0 Just smile and say you would be happy to discuss the point off line.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Finally, and this is very important, do not forget to thank the audience for their time and patience.\u00a0 It will certainly not hurt to say something like \u201cit has been a privilege to have the opportunity to present before such a knowledgeable group\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><gwmw style=\"display:none;\"><\/gwmw><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><gwmw style=\"display: none; background-color: transparent;\"><\/gwmw><gwmw style=\"display:none;\"><\/gwmw><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><gwmw style=\"display:none;\"><\/gwmw><gwmw style=\"display:none;\"><\/gwmw><\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-804 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='804' data-nonce='e29bf0fa73' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/vidwaan.simapt.com\/cxo-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-804 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-804 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='804' data-nonce='e29bf0fa73' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/vidwaan.simapt.com\/cxo-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Unlike' \/><span class='unlc-804 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-804 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ability to make an effective presentation is an important, yet often overlooked, skill.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>How often have we had to sit through a presentation where the presenter puts up slide after slide and fumblingly reads through line by line.\u00a0 Is there value in this?\u00a0 I think not.\u00a0 You may as well email the presentation to the attendees.\u00a0 So what makes a good presentation different from a mundane one?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,131],"tags":[10,40,11,12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vidwaan.simapt.com\/cxo-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vidwaan.simapt.com\/cxo-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vidwaan.simapt.com\/cxo-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vidwaan.simapt.com\/cxo-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vidwaan.simapt.com\/cxo-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vidwaan.simapt.com\/cxo-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":946,"href":"https:\/\/vidwaan.simapt.com\/cxo-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions\/946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vidwaan.simapt.com\/cxo-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vidwaan.simapt.com\/cxo-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vidwaan.simapt.com\/cxo-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vidwaan.simapt.com\/cxo-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}