I'm here to share with you some of my presentation skills manual. Developing the right skills and characteristics for a presentation can be a very valuable asset. People that are better at making presentations and overall communication skills do better in their financial life, than other people.
Thesis: You have to remember that a presentation is like a research essay, you need to have a thesis. There has to be one underlining point to the whole speech and that is your thesis. If you're giving your boss a presentation for a new product you developed, you'd have one important thesis that you'd reiterate throughout the speech. For the case of a product, it would be the benefit to the consumer or profit to the business. The whole idea is that you each sentence you say all relates to the common thesis.
Facts without Facts: You want to show facts in your presentation. It's the only way to really show proof of something. The problem is that facts can really make a presentation look horrible. It just turns into high school physics class and people are asleep. You want people to be excited, so keep the scientific facts to a minimum. I find easy to read graphs are a way to show many different facts without bogging down the audience with too many facts.
Use Handouts: When you give a presentation, you only have so much time. This means you probably won't be able to say all that you wanted too. Have hand outs for the audience. With that said, don't print off your presentation slides and give them out. People don't want that. Put the more in depth information on paper, so if your presentation "wows" the audience, they'll read the papers.
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