Karen Bolda
Professional Development Tips
Presentations-Where to Start?
 
What People are Saying:
 
"The practice activities really helped to point out specific items that I can improve on that I feel will help improve my staff meetings, etc.  Great class!  Thanks Karen!"
~DeAnna Bingham, Fiscal Adminsitrative Manager, Jackson County
 
"Get ready to participate in interactive activities!"     
~Charles Bennett, Planner II, Jackson County 

"I learned a lot from this workshop and will use this information in my future job search."
~Brad Hass, SOU student

"Karen, you were very informative in a casual format that made it easy and enjoyable to take in the focus of the workshop."
~Toni DeVenney

"I had no idea that the core questions were what employees wanted to know.  I now know, also, to practice my story telling and I am prepared for typical interview questions."
~Kimberly L. Shreiner

 
 
Greetings!
 
Instructor Karen BoldaChances are good that you will need to give a presentation related to some aspect of your job many times during your career. It can be an overwhelming prospect trying to figure out what you should cover in the typically inadequate amount of time allotted to you.  We have all attended presentations that seem to ramble off into tangents and we are left wondering what the take away message was.  How do you prevent this from happening to you?
 
I recommend starting at the end.  Decide what your take home message will be before you work on anything else.  Don't just think about it, write down what you want those last two sentences to be.  Once you have that established, then go backwards.  What will your audience need to know in order to understand your final message?  And even more important, what don't they need to know?  If you are considering talking about something and it doesn't directly tie to your final message, don't say it, no matter how interesting it seems.  If everything you say leads the audience to that final message, your presentation will be appreciated and memorable.

--KarenInstructor Karen Bolda
 
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