This week you’ve learned about several different presentation tools and how they can affect an audience. Consider this situation: You’ve been asked to present your idea of adding a family pool to a country club to the club’s Board of Trustees. However, you DON’T want to use a simple Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation and would like to try out some new tools you’ve recently learned.
Keep the following in mind about your audience when selecting a presentation tool:
There are nine members of the Board of Trustees
The Board is multi-generational (but majority is middle-aged men) and multi-cultural
Two Board members have a hearing impairment
Three Board members will be calling-in to the meeting
Choose two presentation tools: in one, create a short presentation (2 to 3 slides) about your thoughts of adding a family pool, and in the other, provide the same information. Then consider the following questions:
Besides content, how are the presentations similar?
What advantages does one presentation tool have over the other?
Which is your preference, and why?
Which tool would you recommend for others to use?
Submit a link or file of your presentations.
PART 2
Over the last two weeks, we’ve discussed presentation tools and how to make an effective presentation. Review the two similar presentations you made last week. Taking into consideration what you learned this week about effective presentations, how would you change these? What speaker notes would you add? How can you further engage your audience? If you were to give this presentation, what would you add to make it more compelling?
Write a 350-word brainstorm of your thoughts to these questions as well as a reflection on what you would personally need to work on to make your presentations and speeches more effective. This can be a paragraph, outline, or a graphic organizer of your choice.