2015 Presentations Tip

Add questions and answers just before your close--not after it. Your opening and ending are your power positions to plant your message into your audience's memory. Q&A in the end position can undermine your message, so prepare a summarizing story or tagline that your audience will want to remember after their questions are answered.

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!