Presentation Planning the Presentation

Dir­ect from Bar­Camp Perth2.0, here are the slides, the present­a­tion plan and intro­duc­tion I used.

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As I said dur­ing the present­a­tion and in my plan, you should script the intro­duc­tion and con­clu­sion, here is the intro­duc­tion. The con­clu­sion is unscrip­ted, not because I am too lazy, but if you look at the plan you see why.

Introduction

Hi I am Nick Cowie and I am going to talk about present­a­tions, par­tic­u­larly plan­ning presentations.

Those people who have seen me present before, know that I can do a reas­on­able job. A few friends where suprised when work sent me on a full day train­ing course on present­a­tions. I tweeted a few times dur­ing the day I was bored and not learn­ing any­thing, then the course moved onto ses­sion plan­ning. I tweeted that I did learn some­thing inter­est­ing, and a couple of my twit­ter friends asked if I would give a present­a­tion at Bar­Camp on what I learnt.

This may seem an odd topic for Bar­Camp, but Bar­Camps are about present­a­tions and I want to con­vince people that it is easy to give a present­a­tion with good plan­ning, so hope­fully more of you will give a present­a­tion at next BarCamp.

For those of you give present­a­tions, I want to con­vince you that plan­ning makes things go easier. You know that hor­rible feel­ing in your stom­ach before you step on stage. Plan­ning does not stop it, it does calm it down quickly as you know if some­thing goes wrong it is easy to get back in step.

One of the most import­ant things I want to pass on to you today, is that you need to break your plan­ning down to the gran­u­lar level.

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