3 snooze control presentation tips

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You have a diverse audience for your presentations. Try these 3 snooze-control tips to keep your audience engaged.

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Have you ever felt like this?

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You wish you could fast-forward a speaker’s presentation

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Or better yet –

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Or better yet – hit mute

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Carol knows she’s a good speaker

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Her audience wouldn’t want that

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Her audience wouldn’t want that

Would they?

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Because we are not all the same

We know different stuff

and have unique needs

We know different stuff

So as good as Carol is

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Parts of her presentation will fall on deaf ears

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What can Carol do?

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Try these 3 snooze-control tips

Number One

Create Geek Handouts

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Geeks are serious about details

Executives cut to the chase

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Keep the details out of your presentation

Let Geeks know where to find them (and anyone else who wants them)

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Email Social media

QR codes/online

Snail mail

Handouts

Number Two

Customize information

Remember Carol?

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She talks about health insurance

People with families

People with families

have different needs from single people

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Keep the details out of your presentation

Customize handouts for interests

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Family

Single

Number Three

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Keep it simple

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Stop cramming in stuff

Look at what you have

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Look at what you have

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then eliminate what you

don’t need

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Share great stories

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Release the power of images

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Create handouts

Customize information

Keep it simple

High five!

Photo Credits: BigStockPhoto.com

For more business communication tips

Go to

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Cathy Miller, Business Writer

Business site: www.SimplyStatedBusiness.com

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