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Why my presentation totally TANKED!!!

Have you ever presented to an important group of people to get them to think passionately about something and make a hard decision?

Well I did tonight and…IT TANKED!!!!

The purpose of my presentation was to persuade. My task was to persuade the school board to take action/make a decision on something?

My advice:(I am taking full credit for the ultimate demise of the presentation.)

  • When presenting in an innovative way..explain to the audience that the presentation is going to be different than presentations you have seen before. (You need to also know your audience. I think this group would have preferred bullet points, whiz/bang, charts and graphs, small print and lots of color mashing. BUT I AM NOT BITTER!!!:):):)
  • Explain that the handout includes the words and information, but the presentation is going to be just that, a PRESENTATION NOT A READ-A-LOUD!! (Once again, less bitter.)
  • Read the expression on your audience face. I probably should have stopped after the first two slides and asked for questions. The topic was a controversial topic so it really wasn’t that the presentation actually tanked. The audience didn’t “get it” because there were other “issues.”
  • Pauses ??? In my research of good presentation design with PPT, I read that you should pause to let the slide speak for itself. That was awful!!! I should have just whizzed right through it after seeing the expressions on their faces. The pauses were like black holes of silence. (Ok, the other elementary principals were laughing hysterically in the back of the room. They “got it.”)
  • Know when to use humor. Clearly I should have STOPPED and just opened it up for questions and turned the presentation off.

Regrets/reflection/reactions:

  • No regrets. You have to start somewhere. “Digitial immigrants”(for the lack of any newly adopted terms) need to be introduced to engaging presentations at some point. Especially if they play powerful rolls in education. It gets boring after months of “death by ppt.”
  • Reflection – I think I am going to call in sick for the rest of the board meetings this year:)
  • Reactions – There were about 10 staff members in the audience that this was going to directly affect and they had the wind knocked out of their sails. I need to wake up early and buy donuts for them in the morning.

Good Night!
Melinda:)

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Comments

  1. Wm Chamberlain says

    April 17, 2009 at 11:21 am

    Is it possible that you are overreacting? The school board may not have reacted like you thought they would, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they didn’t get it. I suppose you will found out over the next few days.

  2. PrincipalJ says

    April 18, 2009 at 4:55 am

    Yes, do you think you overreacted? What was the response the following work day among the staff that were there?

    Remember, you are your own worst critic!!

  3. UltimateTeacher says

    April 20, 2009 at 3:18 am

    What was the reaction of the board when you were done? Were they upset, bored, unemotional? I do agree with the other two posts, that you may in fact be your own worst critic. They could easily have been giving you their best poker face yet. However, if not…it does seem like you rebounded quite well and you should be fine at the next meeting…..it only gets better from here on out.

  4. MWalls says

    May 24, 2009 at 7:05 pm

    If this was the first of this type of presentation, then I think that should speak to your audience…What I mean is that many will likely see this as innovative, rather than perfection orientated. Hopefully they will be inspired and will look for ways to use this type of technology in the future.

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    February 12, 2010 at 6:04 pm

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    June 22, 2010 at 7:19 pm

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