159: Success on Presentation Day, with David Sparks
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2014
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
David Sparks: Presentations
David last appeared on episode #119 to help us get control of our email.
Memorize the opening and the closing of your presentation
- Nail the beginning.
- Close strong.
Utilize an effective remote
- A green laser shows better than a red one
- Keep the button options simple
- Dark the screen when you’re not referring to a slide
- Find one with an on/off switch
- David recommends the Kensington K72427AM Wireless Presenter*
Tools to consider
- You need to learn to be self-sufficient
- Adapters
- Extension cord
- Duct tape
- Speakers for audio
David’s final advice
- Think about your presentation as a story
- Your slides are not your script
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| 0:00.0 | You've spent days or even weeks working on that big presentation. |
| 0:04.7 | Now the day is here. |
| 0:06.7 | On this episode, How to Prepare for Success on Presentation Day. |
| 0:11.6 | This is Coaching for Leaders, episode 159. |
| 0:15.0 | Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential. |
| 0:20.0 | Greetings to you from Orange County, California. This is coaching for leaders and I'm your host, Dave Stahoviac. |
| 0:31.0 | This is a weekly coaching show to help us all be better leaders through improved communication, |
| 0:37.0 | human relations, and personal leadership. |
| 0:41.0 | And all of those things come into play when we show up on presentation day to give |
| 0:46.6 | that important presentation at a conference to a client or maybe even internally. |
| 0:53.2 | And that's why today we are tackling the topic of how to prepare and show up and handle |
| 0:59.9 | Presentation Day effectively, regardless of which of those situations you're in and I'm just |
| 1:06.8 | thrilled to welcome back to the show David Sparks David was with us back on episode 119 and had talked about email. |
| 1:16.0 | David had written a book back last year on email and we talked about it extensively and a lot of people really enjoyed that episode and got a lot of comments about it and I'm so excited that David has released a new book called Presentations. It's available in the I Bookstore for those of you who are Mac and iPhone and iPad people, |
| 1:36.3 | but you can also get it on his website. |
| 1:38.5 | And he's here today to really teach us a lot about some of the practical things of what to do to show up on |
| 1:44.9 | presentations day and as some of you know David he's a well known for being one of the |
| 1:51.5 | co-host on the Mac Power Users Podcast and he's also a practicing attorney here in Orange County. |
| 1:57.0 | So he has a lot of credibility with a lot of folks in a lot of different places of helping them use technology well. David, welcome back to |
| 2:05.1 | coaching for leaders. Thanks for having me back, Dave. Well I am... I don't know I feel a |
| 2:09.7 | little guilty. We're both in Orange County but we we're sitting in our, you know, mutual, you know, |
| 2:15.2 | fortresses of solitude. |
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