Presentation Techniques
Going through my blogs that I read I encountered this blogpost aboutPaul’s Painless Process for Preparing a Presentation and it's so true. So what is it?
- One month away: Blog about it, generate as much hype as possible, invite everyone I know to the talk.
- Three weeks away: Promise myself to start preparing soon.
- Two weeks away: Promise myself that I’ll get to it this weekend, as it’s the last weekend I will have before the presentation.
- Weekend before the presentation: Convince myself that the talk is still days away, and I can prepare it on weeknights.
- Two days before the presentation: Convince myself that it can wait until tomorrow night.
- Night before the presentation: Stay up until at least 3AM the next morning preparing. Promise myself to start preparing sooner next time!
Most of the time I apply the same technique when I have to do a talk however if the topic is new I do take the time to prepare myself so that I know what I am talking about.
How about you is this something you do yourself or do you have a better technique? I am curious to know.
Comments
- Anonymous
July 08, 2007
- throw coffee over the notes you've prepared 2h before you do your presentation. Start over again making these notes and then forget them to the actual presentation ... The above description is also some way I used to work. Now i try to advance things a little bit so it doesn't hurt as much as inconveniant things show up...(and i make my notes electronically now and print them out as the electronical things have a tendency to disappear when I need them...) //Bart