How to Write a Presentation That Gets Your Message Across
By: Jane Sumerset
Submitted: 2009-04-04 21:53:14 | Word Count: 530
There are many ways to deliver a presentation, the worst of which is composing a long and boring speech. Even with the greatest message in the world, it can easily be ignored when your presentation fails to reach your audience in a powerful way.
Here are a few things you can do that goes beyond adding dancing animations to your PowerPoint slides.
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Avoid Overloading Your Audience. Throwing one fact after one another doesn’t help you in any way. Actually, it will likely leave your audience bored and restless. Facts, presented at appropriate times and in acceptable doses, can be a powerful tool to strengthen your message. Dispensed with carelessly, it’s the easiest to put an entire room to sleep.
Summarize Data During The Actual Speech. Instead of detailing every fact you can list down, use short summaries of them in your presentation slides. You can include the detailed information as a handout for additional reference.
Use An English Grammar Software. Always double check the text in your slides, your handouts and your prepared speech using an English grammar software. Nothing shames presenters faster than poor grammar and vocabulary mistakes.
Practice Your Delivery. Always do a dry run of your actual presentation a day or two before its scheduled date. It will help you iron out potential problems before they happen.
Keep The Benefits In Mind. Everyone is inherently selfish. Whether you’re selling a product or describing a new system, always let people know how it directly benefits them. Dispense that information sparingly throughout the presentation.
The content of your communication is not what you intend to say but what your audience understands. Put another way, if you mean to say one thing and your audience picks up another, you have failed terribly in your writing.
As such, it is important to fine tune your writing such that you are able to deliver your message without confusing your recipients. One of the best ways to achieve that is by understanding their language and filtering what you write through that.
Learn Their Jargon
Groups of people each develop their own sets of jargon that make communicating with those in their field much easier than using more general terms. For instance, while you may refer to your NAS media storage at home as a “server” when talking with your friends, you will probably need to refer to it as a “media server NAS” when writing for an audience of computer professionals to avoid any confusion. Make sure you run your piece through an English software to make sure you’re not putting together phrases that won’t likely make sense to anyone.
Match Their Tone
How would your target audience write when composing a message to their peers? Match the tone of how you imagine that to be. If you’re writing to an audience of CEOs and vice presidents, a formal tone will obviously need to be adopted. Similarly, writing to an audience of college kids on Facebook will probably require a less serious and more jovial quality.
Learn how your audience speaks and match it. That’s the best way to ensure communication that gets its message across.
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