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Presentations That Resonate with Your Audience

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Presentations That Resonate with Your Audience

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2022 OET Webinars:

Career Planning Policy - February 16, 2022

2021 L.E.A.D Webinars

Leadership. Excellence. Action. Development. Series-The Illinois Center for Specialized Professional Support (ICSPS) has created a professional learning series for the Office of Employment and Training Staff. The first sessions are outlined below. Each session is designed to give you tools, tips, and practical advice that you can implement immediately.

2021 L.E.A.D Series

Listening to Understand and Solution-Creation: Tips for Active Listening and Problem-Solving - May 21, 2021

Manage Your Schedule Like a Boss: The Art of Delegation and Saying No-April 16, 2021

Talking Initiative and Being Accountable-March 19, 2021

Synergy, Do You Have It?: Small Group Dynamics- February 19, 2021

Presentations that Resonate with your Audiences-January 15, 2021

Find Your Voice: Best Practices on Public Speaking- December 18, 2020

Optimize Meeting Effectiveness: How to Get Results-November 20, 2020

Past Training and Corresponding Resources

OET Training DCEO - June 26, 2020

OET Training DCEO - June 19, 2020

OET Training DCEO Virtual Team Building - May 29, 2020

OET Training DCEO Professional Communication -May 22, 2020

OET Training DCEO -May 15, 2020

L.E.A.D Series Pro Tips & Resources

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Career Planning Policy - February 16, 2022 Leadership. Excellence. Action. Development. Series-The Illinois Center for Specialized Professional Support (ICSPS) has created a professional learning series for the Office of Employment and Training Staff. The first sessions are outlined below. Each session is designed to give you tools, tips, and practical advice that you can implement immediately.

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There's something irresistible about personality quizzes. And judging by the number of "likes" garnered by our recent Facebook post about learning styles, it seems that you feel the same way.

The conversation that stemmed from the post led us to think more deeply about the validity of learning styles, and how (or if) they can help facilitate more effective learning. In the presentation business, we're always looking for ways to communicate information in way that resonates with people, and motivates them to act-and a big part of that is learning how people learn.

The learning style model you've probably heard of is known as the VARK model that describes the styles as visual, auditory, read/write and kinesthetic and was developed by Dr. Neil Fleming in 1987. Teachers were encouraged to use the model to create curricula that were effective for the most diverse group of students.

The VARK model outlines four learning styles. The infographic we shared (pictured below) says seven. And one study recently showed that there are 70 different learning styles.

In addition to the differing opinions on the subject, there have been criticisms of models that categorize individuals into these different styles. In a 2009 study, Hal Pashler from the University of California, San Diego, made the point that there hasn't been much study on the adverse effects of learners being taught via the "wrong" style. For example, does a visual learner really learn less well when given information in a way suited best for verbal learners?

The majority of the criticisms simply suggest that individuals are not limited to one learning style. That's fair. People are complex.

So, how can this information help us as presenters? Well, as a presenter, you must not view your audience as an amorphous blob to whom you can relate to by following a formula. But you can count on some core truths that are universal no matter who your audience is or where their preferences lie: they want to hear stories and they want you to understand what makes them tick before suggesting they try something new.

You can use learning style research to get ideas about how to present your information in different ways, depending on your audience. They may not be limited to one style, but you can take a logical guess about which style will work best. For example, if I'm presenting to engineers or similar technically minded professionals, I'll make the majority of my presentation logical and data-centric. That doesn't mean I need to remove emotion and humor from my presentation - logical thinkers are human beings, after all, and quite often have a great sense of humor and irony. But if I were giving the same talk to designers, I would appeal to their visual passions a lot more, simply because I know they often see the world differently and have different passions than statisticians. The same goes for an audience of English professors who love to get lost in the written word, actors who love to role play, or personal trainers who want to get up and moving.

Knowing your audience makes being a presenter-or a teacher of any kind-more interesting. If you had to give the same presentation or the same lecture repeatedly, without altering it for the audience, your job would be pretty boring. So relish in the task of knowing your audience and using your presentation to treat them like a hero-by making a deeply personal connection, not just a bullet list of main points.

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There's something irresistible about personality quizzes. And judging by the number of "likes" garnered by our recent Facebook post about learning styles, it seems that you feel the same way. The conversation that stemmed from the post led us to think more deeply about the validity of learning styles, and how (or if) they can help facilitate more effective learning.

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The PechaKucha 20x20 presentation format is a slide show of 20 images, each auto-advancing after 20 seconds. It's non-stop and you've got 400 seconds to tell your story, with visuals guiding the way. PechaKucha was created in Japan in 2003 by renowned architechts, Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham. The word "PechaKucha" is Japanese for "chit chat."

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Tips for creating an effective presentation

Keep your text simple and minimize the amount of text on your slides

Use bullets or short sentences, and try to keep each to one line; that is, without text wrapping.

You want your audience to listen to you present your information, rather than read the screen.

Some projectors crop slides at the edges, so long sentences may be cropped.

You can remove articles such as "a" and "the" to help reduce the word count on a line.

Make slide backgrounds subtle and keep them consistent.

Choose an appealing, consistent template or theme that is not too eye-catching. You don't want the background or design to detract from your message.

See Combining colors in PowerPoint - Mistakes to avoid.

For information about using themes, see Add color and design to my slides with themes.

Use high contrast between background color and text color.

Themes automatically set the contrast between a light background with dark colored text or dark background with light colored text.

See Combining colors in PowerPoint - Mistakes to avoid.

Tips for delivering an effective presentation

Don't assume that your presentation will work fine on another computer.

Disk failures, software version mismatches, lack of disk space, low memory, and many other factors can ruin a presentation.

Turn off screen savers, and ensure you have the appropriate files and versions of software that you need, including PowerPoint.

To ensure all files are accounted for when you copy them to a USB drive and carry them to your presentation location, see Package a presentation for CD or USB flash drive.

Consider storing your presentation on OneDrive so it can be accessible to you from any device with an internet connection.

Practice makes perfect.

Consider rehearsing your presentation with Presenter Coach.

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In this article Keep your text simple and minimize the amount of text on your slides Use bullets or short sentences, and try to keep each to one line; that is, without text wrapping. You want your audience to listen to you present your information, rather than read the screen.