{"id":2426,"date":"2014-10-13T21:43:38","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T20:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.curved-vision.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/?p=2426"},"modified":"2014-10-13T21:43:38","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T20:43:38","slug":"presentations-back-to-basics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/presentations-back-to-basics\/","title":{"rendered":"Presentations &#8211; back to basics! :)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.curved-vision.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/back_to_basics2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2430\" src=\"http:\/\/www.curved-vision.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/back_to_basics2-282x300.png\" alt=\"back_to_basics\" width=\"282\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/back_to_basics2-282x300.png 282w, http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/back_to_basics2.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" \/><\/a>Look, it&#8217;s not hard, is it?!? \u00a0All you have to do is<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>stand up in front of people<\/li>\n<li>tell them things.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But just because it&#8217;s simple doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s easy. After all, dieting is simple &#8211; all you need to do is<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>eat less<\/li>\n<li>exercise more<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>but if it was genuinely easy we&#8217;d none of us be overweight.<\/p>\n<p>So what is it about making presentations that means it&#8217;s not as easy as it is simple?<\/p>\n<p>My experience (nearly ten years as a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.curved-vision.co.uk\/\">presentation skills trainer<\/a>) is that one of the main issues is that we over-complicated it and we think we matter.<\/p>\n<h2>OVER COMPLICATION<\/h2>\n<p>This is simply dealt with. Firstly, when you&#8217;re asked (or told, or volunteer) to do a presentation,\u00a0<strong>don&#8217;t panic<\/strong>. If you can stay calm for just five minutes &#8211; long enough to ask yourself these questions &#8211; you&#8217;re presentation is a lot, lot less likely to suck.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>What does my audience already know?<\/li>\n<li>What do I need them to know?<\/li>\n<li>What&#8217;s the best way to tell them the things between 1 and 2?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Like I said, it&#8217;s not complicated. The main problem comes from presenters telling people what they know, not what the audience needs to know.<\/p>\n<h2>YOU&#8217;RE NOT IMPORTANT &#8211; GET OVER IT<\/h2>\n<p>That&#8217;s all there is to it, really.<\/p>\n<p>Being overly-nervous is a form of arrogance (yeah, okay, I&#8217;m over-stating this to make a point but you get the idea). It stems from the idea that the audiece is there to hear\u00a0<strong>you<\/strong>\u00a0speak. They&#8217;re not. They&#8217;re there to hear what you have to say.<\/p>\n<p>Ask yourself when the last time was that you rushed into a presentation saying &#8220;I&#8217;ve got to go to this one because it&#8217;s Simon!&#8221;. I&#8217;ll bet on never or almost never.<\/p>\n<p>What you do is rush along to a presentation saying &#8220;I wonder what I can learn about Marketing!&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Keep yourself out of the picture. You&#8221;re a medium, not the message! ;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look, it&#8217;s not hard, is it?!? \u00a0All you have to do is stand up in front of people tell them things. But just because it&#8217;s simple doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s easy. 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