Creating A Presentation

Think about your audience, your aims, their expectations, the surroundings, the facilities available, and what type of presentation you are going to give (lecture style, informative, participative, etc).

What are your aims?
To inform, inspire and entertain, maybe to demonstrate and prove, and maybe to persuade.

How do you want the audience to react?
Thinking about these things will help you ensure that your presentation is going to achieve its purpose.

Clearly identify your subject & your purpose to yourself, then let the creative process take over for a while to gather all the possible ideas for subject matter and how you could present it.

When you have all your ideas on paper, organize them into subject matter categories, three is best. Does it flow? Is there a logical sequence that people will follow and you’ll be comfortable with?
Presentations almost always take longer to deliver than you think the material will last.

• You must create a strong introduction and a strong close.
• You must tell people what you're going to speak about and what your purpose is.
• Make sure everyone can see the visuals displays.
• You should plan a suitable layout / design considering your topic, occasion, meeting and the audience. Check out the videos for more help on preparing an amazing presentation.
• You can browse the internet and checkout sample presentations.
• See how other companies present themselves in their brochures etc. Notice their colors, their visuals, their text and the content. Learn from them.

And while you might end on a stirring quotation or a stunning statistic, you must before this have summarised what you have spoken about and if appropriate, demanded an action from your audience, even if it is to go away and think about what you have said.

Take nothing for granted. Check and double-check, and plan contingencies for anything that might go wrong.