Returning To one of the best Presentations ever
Here is a re-post of a blog post I did about one year ago on my own personal site. The reason for the re-post is because I cannot emphasise enough how great story telling is the real secret behind a great presentation. This does not matter whether you are teaching a group of business people how to be more productive or teaching English to a classroom full of university students from Russia, telling stories is the secret to having your students remember you and remember what you are teaching them.
Now, I am very interested in presentations, spending most of days either preparing a presentation or delivering a presentation.
One of my sources of inspiration is TED.com a great website, full of high quality video of incredible people talking about incredible things.
One of the ‘secrets’ of a good presentation is the ability to ‘tell a story’ and in this presentation, Mike Rowe (of Discovery Channel’s Dirty Jobs) tells an amazing story about lamb castration. (click here for 한국어) He also shows you that you do not need slides to do a fantastic presentation. Just be out there, front and centre talking to your audience
Lessons we can learn from this presentation:
- You do not need to prepare a Powerpoint / Keynote presentation file to do a great presentation
- The ability to tell a story, and to show some human element in the story, turns a presentation into a great presentation
- Do not use a lecturn, table or podium unless you absolutely have to. Be out there front and centre and talk to your audience.
- Show humility – do not try to show you are perfect – you are not
- Be natural and be yourself
