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How To Use Statistic for Your Presentation

December 6, 2017 by Muhammad Noer

Statistic is series of data. Those data is usually in number form, arranged in a table or diagram. Statistic data usually describes something and has something to do with something.

When you deliver a presentation, you are challenged to deliver something related to data or facts so that the audiences get the point that what you deliver is something useful and real.

One of many data that affects the success of a presentation is statistic data. With those data, your presentation material will be more understandable to the audiences.

For instance, you are presenting a material about the danger of smoking to human health. In that presentation, you deliver the facts about substances inside a cigarette that can destroy health. These facts will be strengthened with statistic data. It could be the result about the research on the health damage caused by smoking, the increasing of the patients due to smoking and the relation between the amounts of cigarettes consumed daily to the heart health condition. All those data must be researched by statistics.

Besides for strengthening data and facts delivered in a presentation, statistic also has several important functions that are important for the success of your presentation.

1. Giving clearer description to the audiences

Imagine you are delivering a presentation about the importance of keeping the continuity of the forest. In that presentation, you say that 2 million hectare of forest in Indonesia is gone due to illegal logging.

When you say “2 million hectare”, the audiences will think that that is a large amount. But, only few people are able to imagine that 2 million hectare forest.

But, if you add another explanation like elaborating that ‘2 million hectare is equal to 10 thousand times of a soccer field’, almost all of the audiences are able to imagine how vast is the damage of the forest due to illegal logging. It could happen because the audiences are familiar with soccer field than a forest, especially if they live in the metropolitan city.

We got the fact from statistic data. It is impossible for you to measure the damaged forest all by yourself manually because it will be very difficult to do. But, statistics enables you to get data you need easily.

2. Giving easier explanation to the audiences

Imagine you are delivering a presentation about the benefits of strawberries for human health.

In order to be able to describe the benefits contained in strawberries, you must give the information about nutrition contained in strawberries. In that presentation, it is impossible to make a research like researches do in laboratory to give information about vitamin C consisted in a strawberry. You just need to give the existing data. For example you describe that a strawberry contains several grams of vitamin C. with that amount, people need several strawberries to keep healthy. Those data need statistic measurement.

If you want to compare the benefits of strawberries to another fruit, you can use statistic. For example, the amount of vitamin C contained in 250 grams of strawberries is equal to vitamin C contained in 500 grams of oranges.

By using statistic, the audiences will know that strawberries contain more benefits for their health. That is why they will be interested to buy strawberries after attending to your presentation.

3. Describing the background of data

You must heard news about surveys held by some institutions to count vote on last election event. In that news, it was described that candidate A has more chance to win the election compared to candidate B or the electability of candidate A decreases compared to former surveys.

Those surveys use statistics. They do not do survey to everyone, but only to some people who are considered representing a population. The data they got are considered representing what happens to the whole population, because they do the survey by using certain methods.

Statistic is required in many divisions, including in delivering a presentation. Statistic helps you to deliver information to audiences. You will be able to deliver it more easily.

A data visualization editor named Alan Smith delivered in a presentation that although not giving the exact thing, statistic can help people understand more easily.

Here is the presentation delivered by Alan Smith:

In his presentation, Smith said, “Statistics can give us a rich and surprising view of the everyday world around us.” With statistics, someone can see the difference between what he thinks with the reality.

According to smith, statistics is the science of us. By looking at the statistic data about things around us, the audiences will feel more connected with the material you deliver.

One thing you need to do is make the statistic display interesting while you deliver it. Although the data are usually numbers, but if you can deliver it properly, those numbers will not be boring. Your presentation will also be more spectacular.

5 Simple Tips to Make a Great Presentations

April 8, 2013 by Muhammad Noer

The following video will explain to you 5 simple tips to make a great presentation.

These excellent presentation tips is recommended by Nancy Duarte, a communication consultant who has helped Al-Gore developed his phenomenal presentation slide “The Inconvenient Truth.”

Watch Nancy Duarte’s video below. This video was made with PowerPoint and used a world-class animation technique to create a perfect blend between the slides and presenter narration.

And here are five tips to make a great presentation:

1. Treat Your Audience as King

Your audience is a king. They come to a presentation because they need it.

Design your presentation to meet your audience needs, not just yours. Audiences want to know what is important to them. That’s why you should create a clear, simple and easy to understand presentation.

2. Spread Ideas and Move People

Audiences want to get inspiration from your presentation. They also want to benefit from your thinking. Remember, presentation is not another meeting that gets people bored. It should be able to convey meaning.

Use animation to inspire and help audience understand your message better. Encourage them to act.

3. Help Them See What You Are Saying

A picture is worth a thousand words.

When making a presentation design, ask yourself, what am I trying to communicate?

Brainstorm ideas and replace words with pictures, charts or diagrams.

Design a presentation that has a consistent appearance so that every slide will be focused on one single idea. This will help your audience easier to understand what you are saying. Don’t let their attention distracted by puzzling slides.

4. Practice Design Not Decoration

Design is different from decoration.

You are making a good design if you arrange every element consciously for specific communication objectives. Make sure that there is no picture, diagram or text, placed randomly without any purpose.

A design is very different from decoration. Decoration is only an act of adding something to decorate your slides. Unfortunately, often times it makes a presentation slide become complicated and confusing.

90% of a creative process is destructive. This means you need to reduce in order to get the essence of your message.

If you want to display a strong message, focus your statement on specific sentence that represent the main point of your presentation.

And if you want to display a powerful image, enlarge it to show its strength.

5. Cultivate Healthy Relationship

As a presenter, you are interacting with your slides and your audience. Build a good relationship with your audience and reduce your dependency on slides. Remove unnecessary text and focus on main subject.

Your slide serves as a visual communication to your audience.

Extend this function with your style of delivering the presentation. Make eye contact and use a friendly body language. This will develop trust and healthy relationships between you and your audience.

Practice a lot before you perform. Practice and repetition are very important. It will help you mastering your presentation better and cultivate healthy relationship.

Those are 5 simple tips to make a great presentation from Nancy Duarte.

Implement the tips and you will deliver amazing presentation that will be remembered by your audience.

A Multimedia Presentation from a Great Magician Marco Tempest

March 7, 2013 by Muhammad Noer

Marco Tempest presenting at TED Global 2011

Marco Tempest is one of my favorite magicians. He is a Swiss magician who is not only an expert in using multimedia technology for a magic show, but also a great presenter.

In TED Global 2011 presentation, Marco Tempest delivered a fascinating presentation using 3 pieces of iPod.

The Magic of Truth and Lies, was the title of the presentation which got a standing applause from TED Global audience.

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Introduction:

Marco began his presentation with a story about his favorite magician Karl Germain who is capable of displaying blooming roses in front of the audience eyes.

He created some conspicuous phrases in this presentation to be the core of his presentation:

Magic is the only honest profession.
A magician promises to deceive you and he does.

A story or narration is one of the best ways to open a presentation. The reason for this is simple, everybody loves stories. Young children, teenager, adult, even older person, all like story. In this presentation Marco uses his skills as a great story-teller.

Closing:

At the end of his presentation, Marco used this statement:

“Art is a deception that creates real emotions — a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic.”

This is spectacular closing of technology intensive magic show and presentation by Marco Tempest. The closing sentence was chosen in such a way to summarize the contents of presentation very well.

Presentation Analysis:

Whatever tricks he used in the presentation, you would agree that he presented it very well and fascinating.

Certainly it is because of intensive and well-done preparation. A feature that made him capable of delivering his speech very well. Every sentence was pass on smoothly at the right moment.

In a “LIVE” presentation like this, there is almost no tolerance for mistakes. Marco was capable of presenting an attraction as well as appealing sentences in every part of his presentation.

So, if you want to deliver a great presentation, there is only one condition you have to follow: prepare your presentation carefully and practice a lot.

Choose an interesting story to open your presentation.
Prepare specific phrases and sentences that you want to say on certain moments.
Design a show or demonstration that will support your presentation.
Create a powerful presentation’s closing that will always be remembered by the audience.

What Marco did is similar to Steve Jobs, who always practice seriously for each presentation session including when he has to give a product demonstration. With this careful preparation, no part will be missed when he presented important features of a product. Everything looks natural because of continuous practice. Finally, this will bring about a stunning appearance in a presentation.

We can learn a lot from Marco Tempest’s presentation. We don’t have to always use a slide in a presentation. You can perform a stunning presentation by demonstrating a certain skill, including magic.

What do you think?

Steve Jobs Inspirational Speech at Stanford University

January 30, 2013 by Muhammad Noer

Steve Jobs delivered one of inspirational speech in 2005 at Stanford University. The speech shows us how to prepare good materials in order to give a good presentation or formal speech using simple language.

Please watch the following video before reading the analysis further:

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