Archive for the ‘handouts’ Category

Four Ways to Data Dump

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

What do you do if you have an incredibly large amount of data that you must present to an audience, but you are limited to a strict time amount of, say 10-30 minutes?

By far, the absolute worst mistake you could make is to do the following: cram every fact you can find into a bullet point and then on a PowerPoint and then race through that PowerPoint in front of your audience. You can guarantee that no one will remember anything you say if you try this technique (though you will be in good company, since this is what most bad-to-average presenters do).

The Handout Strategy

Friday, October 19th, 2007

Imagine you’ve been invited to speak at an industry conference in front of 2000 people, and a full 15% of those people are ideal prospects for your company’s products or services. What do you do? You can’t necessarily give handouts to that many people. You will lose credibility if you use a lot of your time to give a blatant sales pitch. So how do you make a stronger connection with your ideal prospects hidden in the large audience?

Form Handouts for Presentations

Friday, August 31st, 2007

In general, I am against giving audience members handouts during or before a presentation. Why? Because I want the audience listening carefully to me the speaker, not ignoring me while reading ahead. Your audience can read a lot faster than you can talk.

However, there is a system that many speakers, including world-renowned gurus like Anthony Robbins use. These speakers give people booklets that have lots of blanks, sentence fragments, and spaces for writing. They are workbooks, not simply data filled handouts.