Jobs & Education1 min ago
Presentations
Do you know any good openers to business presentations that really get the audiences attention whilst making a good point? I'm particularly interested in openers that would work in meetings where I have to present to an audience of 3-10 people.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I guess what you�re after is an attention grabber.
The way I see it you have 2 choices: go for something to do with the presentation you�re making (i.e. if your presentation is about sales for the last month give the most exciting point of your findings first as a bullet point and say �but more about that later�) or alternatively go for an interesting but not remotely relevant fact (not a lot of people know this but �.).
An example would be: At least 40,000 extra lives could be saved every year if everyone with a high-risk condition for whom aspirin was appropriate actually received it.
There are come good sites to get these factoids from like:
http://www.accessexcellence.org/WN/Factoids/
http://www.populationconnection.org/Factoids/
http://samvak.tripod.com/factoidsindex.html
Google factoids for more.
Hope this helps.
The way I see it you have 2 choices: go for something to do with the presentation you�re making (i.e. if your presentation is about sales for the last month give the most exciting point of your findings first as a bullet point and say �but more about that later�) or alternatively go for an interesting but not remotely relevant fact (not a lot of people know this but �.).
An example would be: At least 40,000 extra lives could be saved every year if everyone with a high-risk condition for whom aspirin was appropriate actually received it.
There are come good sites to get these factoids from like:
http://www.accessexcellence.org/WN/Factoids/
http://www.populationconnection.org/Factoids/
http://samvak.tripod.com/factoidsindex.html
Google factoids for more.
Hope this helps.
When I presented to a conference and was waiting for everyone to shut up, I said "if you don't sit down now I'll have to tell my duck joke". Of course some one said "go on then" and I had to tell it. They laughed, I got their attention.
Also mention coffee, you don't have to serve it, but if you see them flagging, just mention coffee and watch their reaction.
Smile, don't say "I'm nervous/ doesn't technology suck", look them in the eye, move around if you can, use a cartoon or striking image in the first slide.
Good luck!
Also mention coffee, you don't have to serve it, but if you see them flagging, just mention coffee and watch their reaction.
Smile, don't say "I'm nervous/ doesn't technology suck", look them in the eye, move around if you can, use a cartoon or striking image in the first slide.
Good luck!