Storyline #4 - The Board Presentation
Andrea Pacini
Lesson Info
13. Storyline #4 - The Board Presentation
Lessons
The Importance of Presentation Skills in Business
04:27 2Understanding Your Audience
06:28 3Setting Transformational Objectives
04:24 4Brainstorming Technique #1 - Audience Transformation Roadmap
11:39 5Brainstorming Technique #2 - Mind Map
05:26 6Brainstorming Technique #3 - The Traffic-Light Technique
06:57Quiz: Ideation
8Selecting Key Messages
05:44 9Creating a Clear Storyline
02:32 10Storyline #1 - The Basic 3-Act Play
02:30 11Storyline #2 - Changing the World
04:07 12Storyline #3 - The Sales Pitch
03:30 13Storyline #4 - The Board Presentation
02:49 14Storyline #5 - Project Presentation
02:52 15Putting All Together
03:00 16Making it Original and Enjoyable
10:23 17Quiz: Creation
18Simplicity in Design
08:30 19Design Principle #1 Picture Superiority
04:29 20Design Principle #2 White Space
08:30 21Design Principle #3 Rule of Thirds
04:58 22Before-After Slides
03:57 23Handouts
03:39 24The World's Best Slide
01:50 25Overcoming Corporate Templates
05:08 26Quiz: Illustration
27Present Naked
06:39 28To Learn or Not to Learn
04:22 29Quiz: Delivery
30Share Your Message, Make an Impact, Be Memorable
03:06 31Final Quiz
Lesson Info
Storyline #4 - The Board Presentation
in this lesson, I want to talk about the board presentation because sometimes maybe you need to present something to the board to some top management executives. Now, here is the thing when you present to the board, I would always encourage you to start with your recommendation. So the storyline is recommendation reasoning. So why are you recommending whatever it is that you are recommending? What do you want them to approve? What do you want their advice on recommendation reasoning and then we can call the call to action on next steps or so what? There has to be something at the end, the powerful conclusion. But the key thing here is that you want to start with your recommendation, why? Because when you present to the board, these people are very busy so you will be interrupted and also actually say for those who have reached a certain level, especially within big incorporates, they are either very smart or they think they're very smart, isn't that true? They're either very smart or t...
hey think they are very smart and because of that and also because they are very busy, you will be interrupted, they think they know where you're going and you will be interrupted. So it's your responsibility as a presenter to make sure that they do know where you're going and the best way for you to be able to do that is to start with your recommendation for example, we used this storyline with a client some time ago, a watchmaker and here was the context, although they had already made a clear decision to focus only on ladies watches, the head of marketing decided that they also had to start selling and making high end men's watches to build and gain credibility in this market. And therefore as a consequence to sell more ladies watches. So we had them produce an internal board presentation because they needed the approval from their board to implement their strategy where they put these surprising recommendation right at the start and then they explain why in their reasoning and we judged that there was better than getting to their recommendations slowly, because this might have seemed like they were over justifying it. Perhaps they were not confident in alphabet and they were not getting straight to the point. The presentation of World very well. The watch was a great success and this was also the start of a strong turnaround for their business. So remember in the board presentation, always consider starting with your recommendation. Now, in the next lesson, let's talk about the last possibility the project presentation. I'll see you there
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julie haskett
I was just beginning to create a series of presentations when I noticed this course. Serendipity! I thought I knew what I was doing, but learned some great techniques. More importantly I learned what NOT to do. Now I have much more confidence in the process.
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