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    Understandable and Memorable Presentations
    Understandable and Memorable Presentations
    Understandable and Memorable Presentations
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    Understandable and Memorable Presentations

    By Eric Marcelo

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    Understandable and memorable -- these are your objectives when creating and delivering presentations. Whether you're a student making a presentation for school, an employee assigned by your boss to make a presentation, or a professional trainer, this book will help you create presentations that your audience can appreciate and remember.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEric Marcelo
    Release dateJun 2, 2017
    ISBN9781370395392
    Understandable and Memorable Presentations
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    Eric Marcelo

    Eric is from the Philippines, living in Cagayan de Oro City in Mindanao and married with three kids. He is originally from the historic province of Bataan in Luzon and spent the first nine-and-a-half years of his life there.How did Eric get into writing? He joined Toastmasters International back in 2003 and several speech evaluators said that he had a talent for storytelling. Since then, he's won speech contests and learned to conduct seminars and lectures. Storytelling was a big part of this so writing was the natural offshoot.Eric is one of those authors who don't write using one genre. He writes both fiction and non-fiction and also writes in variour genres. This is because Eric is interested in a lot of different things: different tastes in music, different book genres, different sports, different engineering fields, etc. I guess you can say that Eric is...different.

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      Understandable and Memorable Presentations - Eric Marcelo

      Understandable and Memorable

      Presentations

      (How to make them)

      Eric Marcelo

      Published by Eric Marcelo at Smashwords

      Copyright 2017 Eric Marcelo

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      This ebook is licensed for your personal use only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Table of Contents:

      Preface

      Chapter I – Slide Design

      One Idea or Message at a Time

      You Don't Need a Slide for Everything

      The Magic Number is Six

      Fonts

      Spelling and Grammar

      Slide Backgrounds

      Images vs Text

      Animation

      Slide Transitions

      Utilizing Slide Space

      Handouts

      Chapter II – Delivery

      Organization

      Opening

      Body

      Formats

      Transitions

      Conclusion

      Magic Movements

      Vocal Virtuosity

      Speaking Styles

      Word Wizardry

      Single Sentence Structure

      Rhetorical Devices

      Chapter III – Other Tips

      Eye Contact

      Running Through Your Slides

      Create Moments

      Being Professional

      Audience Participation

      Practice

      Criticism

      You Will Never Be Perfect

      Preface

      If you open a search engine and type in the words, world's worst powerpoint slide, you'll see this beauty:

      This is an actual slide that was used in a presentation for General Stanley McChrystal, who was the commander of the American forces in Afghanistan at the time of the presentation. It's supposed to detail how they intended to address the insurgency problem in the country.

      The slide is obviously terribly constructed and would be a real challenge for anyone to understand. Even General McChrystal was said to have commented:

      When we can understand that slide, we'll have won the war.

      Therein lies the problem for presenters everywhere.

      How can you make your presentations understandable, and just as important, how can you make them memorable? If your audience cannot understand your presentation, then it was useless. If your audience cannot remember what you presented, then you just wasted your time as well as theirs.

      Between the two requirements, understandability would be first in terms of importance. If your audience cannot understand your presentation, then they will most likely not remember it and, if they do remember it, they might remember it for the wrong reasons.

      This then is the purpose of this book. You will learn methods and techniques that will make your presentations understandable and memorable for your audience. You will learn tips on slide design, delivery techniques, and other tips that will enhance your performance and make presentations interesting and relevant. These methods and techniques are gathered from years of making my own presentations, watching others make their presentations, tips that other presenters gave to me and lessons I learned from books, articles, and the Internet.

      Let's begin.

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      Chapter I – Slide Design

      Most, if not all of us, have sat through presentations and, in many of them, the presenters tend to use a few, fairly common, templates. We'll discuss three of them:

      Figure 1

      Figure 1 is a bullet point slide, which is probably the most common slide template in use. A typical scenario is that, as the presenter is talking about the first bullet point, some of the audience are reading ahead of him. By the time he's finished with the first bullet point, some

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