The Secret Presentation Template

Today I am going to let you in on a presentation secret.  I recently had someone ask me how to prepare for a presentation and I provided the following template.

1. Start your presentation with what the audience is going to walk away with.  That means your challenge, your idea to make their lives easier, or your information. That should take one minute or less
2. Tell a story, create an analogy or use a quote to get the audience's attention
3. After the above, you should have the audience interested.  Start with the first of your three points around your topic.
4. Make point #2
5. Make point #3
6. Tie all the points together in a summary
7. Tie the summary back into the story
8. Leave the group with a final thought, or challenge.

That's it.

So when I prepare any presentation I follow the above.  I think of the point of my presentation, look for the story, create the three points, summarize and I am done.

It's pretty simple