While pursuing a degree in business
administration, I made and came across a lot of presentations. Whether it was
to examine a management tactic or a real-life business scenario, the pattern
was overall repetitive. We provide a summary of the main topic, analyze it, and
support our reasoning with internal and external data. Since the point of most
of these presentation is to prove something, the most important thing for these
presentations is data. According to Nosich, you can’t explain without
information. While information include numbers and charts, different views and
other relevant information from different people or environments also serves as
data (Nosich, 2012).
During my undergraduate days, I’ve
always relied on research for my presentations. In the leadership program
however, I’m starting to realize that research alone doesn’t always add up to
our presentations. As leaders, the key is to inspire and motivate people to
support an idea (Prive, 2012). Nancy Duarte mentioned during her TED talk The Secret Structure of Great Talks that
presentations are completely flat-lines, whereas a story allows ones to
establish physical reactions (2011). She examined the different “shapes” of
how stories and presentations are made, and concluded that successful ones are
done in the following shape:
Duarte's whole point was that a good communication is done by going back and forth on "what is" and "what could be", and ending it with "the new bliss". Rather than having one climax of the speech, you can have multiple to help engage the audience. Personally, I find this pattern to be made more for someone who clearly knows their vision: where they can provide numerous examples to support their vision. As much as I would like to fully adapt this style to my future presentation, I will likely only implement a small portion.
As of today, I personally do not have a large lifetime goal or interest since I'm currently in the stage of life of figuring this out. Since I do not have a clear, large vision, using Durate's will be tricky. To avoid my presentation being too much of a presentation as Durate mentioned, I might adapt part of her "what is" "what could be" portions of the chart. For my case, I might be considering doing a presentation about overcoming my thoughts on my hearing disability. At the beginning of the presentation, I'll talk about how well I'm currently doing with my job, and provide some examples of them. Durate's portion can be implemented at the body of the presentation: where I provide examples on how overcoming my fears of my hearing disability could change today's advisement. The ending of the presentation might not add up to Durate's example, but I might consider a short summary and sum up the overall importance of my personal goal. To avoid the presentation being too much of a presentation, I also consider to implement some short story telling to my presentation.
References:
Duarte, N.
(2011). Nancy Duarte: The secret structure of great talks [Video file]. TED. Retrieved
from http://www.ted.com/talks/nancy_duarte_the_secret_structure_of_great_talks
Noisch, G. D.
(2012). Learning To Think Things Through: A Guide to Critical Thinking Across
the Curriculum. Boston: Peason Education.
Prive, T. (2012).
Top Qualities That Make A Great Leader. Forbes.
Retrieved from http://www.forbes.com/sites/tanyaprive/2012/12/19/top-10-qualities-that-make-a-great-leader/#3dc71c923564
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