Video Transcript: How to Prepare a Presentation (Andrew Bryant)

Video Transcript: How to Prepare a Presentation (Andrew Bryant) 

Preparing a presentation, the first place to start in thinking about becoming an effective and efficient presenter is your preparation. It's worth remembering the prior planning prevents poor performance. So how do you prepare? Well, here's what I do I take out a blank piece of paper, whether I'm doing a five minute presentation or a five hour presentation. 

And what I do is I write down the left hand side, why, what, how, what's next? 

So the why, why is your audience listening to you? Why are you listening to me right now? I'm guessing, because you have a presentation coming up, or you do presentations, and you want to get better? So that's the why 

The what, what are you going to be talking about? So in this video, I'm going to be talking about preparation, 

The how or the skills, the skills of how you apply whatever it is that you're sharing with the audience. And the head here, of course, is the why what how, what's next formula? 

The What's next? Is their call to action. What will the audience do? after you finished speaking for five minutes or for an hour? What's the call to action? Are they going to think about something? Are they going to take action? Are they going to email you back? Are they going to buy your product? 

So thinking about your topic, you need to have a Why? 

For the audience to engage them? 

Why are they listening to you? 

What are you going to talk to them about? 

How is that going to impact them? 

What skills are they going to learn or what information do they need to process? 

And finally, what's next? 

What do they do at the end of the presentation?