Improving Your Presentation Skills

Table of contents

1. Welcome To The Course
   1. So Who Said You're a "Bad" Presenter?
2. Be A Badder You
   1. Bookends, The Critical Importance of Hooks and Closings
   2. Bookends (A Good Practice!)
   3. Passion
3. Start Breaking the Rules Before You Even Hit the Stage
   1. Purpose and Action
   2. Purpose and Action (A Good Practice!)
   3. Break the Mirror Rule
   4. Improvise Your Practice (A Good Practice!)
   5. Reading the Audience
   6. Audience (A Good Practice!)
4. You Are the Presentation
   1. Confidence
   2. Confidence (A Good Practice!)
   3. Voice
   4. Voice (A Good Practice!)
   5. Eye Contact, Podiums, and Stories
   6. Eye Contact, Podiums and Storytelling (A Good Practice!)
   7. PowerPoint
5. Staying Bad No Matter What Happens
   1. Oops! Something Goes Wrong
   2. Oops! (A Good Practice!)
   3. Nerves
   4. Working with Nerves (A Good Practice!)
   5. Working with Emotions
6. Now Get Out There!
   1. Remember your training, Grasshopper
7. Presentation Prelude Patterns
   1. Introduction
   2. Know Your Audience
   3. Social Media Advertising
   4. Required / Proposed
   5. Abstract Attorney
8. Creativity Patterns
   1. Narrative Arc
   2. Fourthought
   3. Crucible
   4. Concurrent Creation
   5. Triad
   6. Expansion Joints
   7. Talklet
   8. Unifying Visual Theme
   9. Brain Breaks
   10. Alienating Artifact
   11. Celery
   12. Leet Grammars
   13. Lightening Talk
   14. Takahashi
   15. Cave Painting
9. Slide Creation Patterns
   1. Cookie Cutter / Soft Transitions
   2. Coda
   3. Injured Outlines
   4. Peer Review
   5. Foreshadowing
   6. Bullet Riddled Corpse
   7. Greek Chorus
   8. Ant Fonts
   9. Fontaholic
   10. Floodmarks
   11. Photomaniac
   12. Composite Animation
   13. A la Carte Content
   14. Analog Noise
   15. Vacation Photos
   16. Defy Defaults
   17. Borrowed Shoes
10. Temporal Patterns
    1. Slideument / Infodeck
    2. Gradual Consistency Exhuberant Title Top
    3. Charred Trail
    4. Invisibility
    5. Context Keeper
    6. Breadcrumbs
    7. Bookends
    8. Intermezzi
    9. Backtracking
    10. Preroll
11. Demonstrations versus Presentations
    1. Live Demo / Dead Demo
    2. Lipsync
    3. Traveling Highlights Emergence
    4. Live on Tape
12. Stage Prep
    1. Preparation
    2. Posse
    3. Seeding Satisfaction
    4. Shortchanged
13. Performance Antipatterns
    1. Hiccup Words
    2. Disowning Your Topic
    3. Tower of Babble
    4. Bunker
    5. Hecklers
    6. Going Meta
    7. Backchannel
    8. Laser Weapons
    9. Negative Ignorance
14. Performance Patterns
    1. Carnegie Hall
    2. Breathing Room
    3. Shoeless
    4. Seeding the First Question
    5. Make it Rain
    6. Stakeout
    7. Lightsaber
    8. Echo Chamber
    9. Welcome to the Course
    10. You're Already an Expert
    11. Begin with Your Conclusion
    12. Ask Them How They’d Like to be Persuaded
    13. Influence Through Listening
    14. Make Meaning Through Story
    15. Help Them Rethink the Situation
    16. Let Them Sample The Thing Itself
    17. Take Them Behind The Scenes
    18. Live Your Pitch Ahead of Time