Running a Design Business: Presentation skills by Petrula

PRESENTATIONS

• Know your audience
• Bring data to back up your work
• Knowing people's names to make a personal connection
• Saying too much
• Saying too little — support your work
• Loosing sequence
• Craft your presentation/rehearse
• Skill & confident. Persuade others. PRACTICE!
• Hear you
• AVOID: kind of, like, just, sort of
• Make audience feel what you feel
• Keep it current. Re-draw charts. Research product target audience organization. Against competitors. The more you know the better.
• Sketch story board your presentation
• Visual enhance your message
• Choose good type/Spellcheck/embedded videos to avoid low internet connection. Memorize shortcuts, e.g. play, pause.
• Research ted talks presentations
• Pause to let them process what you're saying when focused with 3D objects

PREPARATION. OVERLY PREPARE.

• Clean your screen desktop. Sleep mode to NEVER.
• Confirm the hardwire you're going to present. 
• Bluetooth speakers
• Virtual meetings — share screen
• Building your presentation. don't share files with 
• Posture, eye contact, hand shake
• Breathing techniques 10-15 mins
• Eat light
• Lower your pitch. Slow down
• Power pauses
• Ask how many people are going to be in the room
• PLAN AHEAD!

CONCLUSION

• Restate the problem & solution
• Why we should care
• Objective points
• Context of business goal. Not aesthetic preferences
• Restate the question to know what you're supposed to answer only about your work like it is real and not the prompts of assignment
• Don't be too passionate with the design. Be objective.