Week 7: Presentation

This weeks project was to find a business appropriate message. Early this week I found a foundation that was geared to helping entrepreneurs. They have done awesome working, including sponsoring the Epcot Innoventions learning center in Disney World. They have donated 25 million dollars to 8 different universities of the course of time.
I decided to take one aspect of this company, its FastTrac program, and gear it to entrepreneurs who have businesses but don't know where to go from here.
I was able to critiques someone elses presentation along with my own. In this presentation, there were alot of words. I realized then that Don McMillan knew what he was talking about.
As the audience I was able to see some of the things a presenter might over look. Becoming the audience is a good way to avoid the "curse of knowledge" that the Heath brothers talk about in their book, Made to Stick.
While this presenters information was good and meaty, I was overwhelmed by the words and very little pictures.
I learned in my listening class last semester that humans can speak up to 100 words per minute while the brain has time to think of 500 words per minute. Pictures help to keep those words in the "oh and ah" area and out of  the "man I'm hungry area, I wonder if this meeting is gonna have snacks at the end, should I wear blue shoes or red shoe... oo presentation, right" area.  
Now that I have critiqued someone else and gained a little perspective, Ibegan to focus on my critique.
My presentation was perfect! -I WISH!
I began to see that I had to many words and only one or two pictures.
So I reworked it. I added a story to help with the emotional aspect of the presentation and added more pictures. Now, my audience can have a visual of what Im talking about.
I feel that my flow at first was skewed, I didnt have alot of detail of the main point I was making. So i had to add more information about the program.
I anticipated simple questions such as and?, why? What?
I direct my first question at my audience instead of raddling off facts.
I feel like the cookies would spark someones interest enough to listen at first and then stay for the rest of the story.
I feel im clear that im sharing about fastTrac growthventure.
Claims are validated from my story.
There is no clutter on my slides.


You can check out my video by clicking the link below!
Presentation 2012