Presentation Skills Tips

• If you have a slide with both pictures and text, it's best to have pictures on the left and text on the right.
• Surprise your audience. (e.g. Steve Jobs took a Mac Air out of an envelope to show his audience how light and thin it was.)
• If presenting with a flip chart:
• Ensure the audience can see the flip chart
• Face the audience while you write
• Write notes in pencil to yourself to remind yourself of key points. (The audience will not be able to see your pencil notes.)
• Enlarge your writing so it's visible 
• Use blue/black, and red to highlight
• If there is something you really want to emphasise, you can tear the page out and stick it on the wall.

The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs, by Carmine Gallo

1. What is the one big idea you want to leave with your audience? It should be short, memorable, and in subject-verb-object sequence.
2. Identify why you're excited about this company/product/feature, etc.
3. Write out the three messages you want the audience to receive, and develop metaphors and analogies in support.
4. Include a demonstration if your product topic lends itself to such. (Eg. pull the product out of your pocket if it is 'pocket-sized.'
5. Invite partners and customers to participate.
6. Include video clips if helpful, but limit to three minutes or less.
7. Answer the "Why should I care?" that's in the audience's mind. Have a passion for creating a better future.
8. Having an enemy (eg. IBM, Microsoft) helps visualize 'the problem' you're solving.
9. Simplify your presentation (and products).
10. Make numbers meaningful - eg. "Stores 1,000 songs," not "5 GB memory."
11. Don't use 'bullet-point' style visuals; instead, use short phrases that accompany your talk, or pictures.
12. Practice, practice, practice - and ask for feedback.

Learning Presentation Skills from Steve Jobs

Learning Presentation Skills from Steve Jobs

(Inspired by Steve Jobs Presentation Skills)

• Theme: have a theme and stick tightly to it
• Hook: start with a short, simple and memorable headline
• Story: sell with stories
• Visual: a picture tells a thousand words
• Simple: keep your message simple (e.g. there are far more accurate ways to do it = more accurate)
• Smile: smile and have fun (tell jokes, share relevant funny anecdotes, e.g. Steve Jobs prank called a Starbucks during his 2007 iPhone presentation and ordered 4000 cups of lattes)
• Don't narrate: don't read from notes or the slides
• Enthusiasm: infect your audience with your enthusiastic and passionate (e.g. Steve Jobs used words like "fantastic", "amazing", "incredible")
• Surprise: have a magic 
• Sign-posting: before you share your points, tell your audience what you are going to share with them; after you share your points, recap and summarise them again (e.g. Before: "Now, I am going to tell you three things about the iPhone: 1...2...3..." and After: "The iPhone is 1...2...3...")
• Inspire: end with something uplifting and inspiring (e.g. inspirational quote)