Presentation Tip 4: Use "Outside" Techniques

Outside

How to Suit Your Audience:
What’s in the Cards for your Presentation?

Create balanced and various experiences for your audience. Doing so will enrich the learning retention and enhance audience engagement. Consider each “suit” to influence and inform your audience from the “outside.”

Clubs

How will you engage your audience in interactive and collaborative experiences?
Move bodies in activities to move minds.

Spades

What tools and techniques will you share with your audience in applying and implementing your topic?

Hearts

What stories will you deliver to your audience to evoke emotional connections with your topic? Practice describing the setting, narrating the situation and struggle, defining the solution, and identifying the significance of the story.

Diamonds

What insights and universals will you uncover for your audience? What “gems” do you want your audience to remember long after the presentation? These diamonds will provide the wealth of the information and its value to the audience.

Presentation Tip 3: Use "Inside" Techniques

“Show & Tell”
with Sensory Language

 Describe what you mean. Leave your audience with sensory impressions and images that they can access from memory, from “inside.” Each access is a chance to influence the audience participant.

See

sights, shapes, sizes, colors, shadows, pictures, photos, graphics, tables, visual composition…

Hear

sounds, noises, euphony, cacophony, tone, speed, volume, flow, cadence, rhythm, rhyme, assonance, consonance, alliteration, onomatopoeia, parallelism…

Touch

temperatures, textures, sensations, movement, motion, action…

Taste

sweetness, sourness, bitterness, tartness, blandness, saltiness, savory, flavors…

Smell

odors, stink, musk, fragrances, aromas…

 Metaphors

How will use you a metaphor to explain an abstract concept or to instill a thematic image to thread throughout your presentation?

 Examples:

The brain is often called the body’s computer.

The image of a tree going through seasons connotes the passage of time.

That is a savory idea to digest!