Planning for Your Presentation

Step #1 - Step away from the computer.

Instead focus on your audience and what you want them to take away from the presentation. What do you want them to do? How do you want them to think differently? What do you want them to remember? This will become your Key Message.

Then structure the flow of your presentation around what your audience will want to know.

DON"T WRITE OUT A SCRIPT. What you are writing is more of a outline. A script locks you into things that you may not want to get out of because of the time it took to write.

Presenting is about communicating ideas – not exact words and sentences. So instead of a script create a set of notes for yourself. Your notes don’t say what you want to say – they remind you of what you want to say. For more guidance on creating notes. Then you can focus on connecting with your audience.

Once you’ve created the structure and flow of your presentation, you can start creating slides.