1. Food for Thought A Recipe for Successful Presentations By Dennis Hage

2. Dennis Hage b Email: dennishage@xxxxxx b Home phone: xxx-xxx-xxxx b Work phone: xxx-xxx-xxx

3. Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? b Thematic approach b Cooking or presenting b Example: Goal - feed peopleGoal - feed people PlanPlan Etc….Etc….

4. The Big Three Cheeses... Blend Well b Ingredients - Content b Cooking-Planning / Everything Else b Serving-Presenting

5. “Feed me.” Little Shop of Horrors

6. Ingredients b Put the “IN” in ingredients b Content Is your bread b Not your butter

7. Nothing to say… Say Nothing.

8. Plan “If you don’t know where you’re going, you may not ever get there.” Audience Purpose

9. Audience Purpose

10. Audience?

11. Planning: Adding a Little Spice b Keep an open mind b Pepper your talk with multi-media

12. Cooking Styles b Don’t let medium overwhelm message b Too many cartoons and pictures?

13. Organize b Introduction: 10% b Body: 70% b Conclusion:20%

14. Choose Your Topic b Central theme b Goal

15. Gather Facts b And resources

16. Develop Content b Key Points b Focus on one key point or category per page b But you don’t have to say it all on one slide

17. Less is More b If the audience is reading, they may not be listening to you b Details can be in handouts or hard copy b Three or four short, clear bullet points on each 6-8 words per line6-8 words per line 6-8 lines per slide6-8 lines per slide 50 words per slide50 words per slide b There are approximately 50 words here.

18. All You Eat… Sometimes More is Better b Lots - keep the pace

19. Spare Ribs b Great content may not be able to overcome dull (or bad) design.

20. Brain Research to Learning b Wizard of OZ?

21. Interpersonal Musical Linguistic Intrapersonal Natural Bodily- Kinesthetic Logical- Mathematical Spatial Intelligences Multiple

22. Charts - colors alter

23. Dining with Pleasure - Environment b Lighting b Temperature b Mints, Flowers, etc b Chart with procedures b Welcome sign in b Pick up packet, get stuff

24. Intro b Greeting b Warm up Engage audienceEngage audience GROUP WORK, GROUP WORKGROUP WORK, GROUP WORK FunnyFunny b After discuss with neighbor b Chime

25. Suitable for Occasion b Artwork b Humor

26. Graphics b Consider entire design, not just one slide b Balance filled and empty space b Visual contrast: neutral background (light on blue) b Use consistent styles of images: line, drawing, photo, cartoon

27. Appropriate Your Graphs b Bar charts:compare totals b Area charts: directional trends b Pie charts: relative proportions b Limit number of items graphed b Be consistent with other visuals

28. Short and Sweet b Insert Picture here… b Guess my answer?

29. Keep their attention … where you want it.

31. Be Prepared…. Or… Your Goose Will Be Cooked b Test the hardware b Power strip b Back up

32. b Practice before you present b Use spell checker b Practice timing Dress(ing) Rehearsal

33. Fish for Compliments Feed back - Evaluate your work b Questionnaires b Comments Or the grapes of Wrath NO whine until its time

34. Doggie Bags - Handouts and Notes b Print handouts and notes with light background b Save a notes version of the presentation

35. Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? Thematic Approach - Cooking or Presenting? b Goal - feed people /info to people b Plan b How many, what do they like b Shop b Follow directions b Individualize b Turn on oven - Warm up b Cook b Serve b Eat b Results

36. Your Cake and Eat it too…

37. The end? b Questions?

38. Too many cooks spoil the broth.