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PowerPoint second session

PowerPoint second session. To start with, everyone prepares a 3 to 5 slide presentation Choose a subject Make sure there is a main message… (it is going to be your presentation title) Organize your thoughts, and make leading statements punchy. Choose a subject.

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PowerPoint second session

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  1. PowerPoint second session • To start with, everyone prepares a 3 to 5 slide presentation • Choose a subject • Make sure there is a main message… (it is going to be your presentation title) • Organize your thoughts, and make leading statements punchy AC 2002

  2. Choose a subject • Start with a theme you like : • « fashionable travels in Europe » • « the french club soccer teams » • Transform it into facts you want to present : • « the french soccer teams do terribly in the european championship » • « the fall is traditionally a strike period in France » • A more interesting topic is « Why ? » such and such a fact holds : • « why are the french club soccer teams doing worse and worse », • A yet more interesting one is your recommandation :   • « what should be done about it ? » • that is what actions you recommend. AC 2002

  3. Preparing a travel brochure... • It is a good exercise in using PowerPoint • yet five years from now, in front of your boss (suppose you’ll be working in a tour-operator company) you’ll need to do more than just present a travel brochure • you’ll need to explain why you want a budget to set up a new travel destination in your tour-operator firm, and be convincing. AC 2002

  4. Making a presentation It is deceptively simple and yet it is surprisingly difficult. AC 2002

  5. Making a presentation is deceptively simple : • We’ve spent 15 years in school learning the 3 r’s : • reading • writing • arithmetic • « We should know how to express an idea. » AC 2002

  6. Making a presentation is deceptively simple, yet... • We haven’t spent much time thinking about • How to communicate ? • To whom we want to talk ? • Why we want to talk to them ? • Why they want to listen to me ? • Who am I to talk to this audience ? • What is my objective ? • And finally, how to be effective ? AC 2002

  7. Managing our image (1) : • When communicating we have to manage our image • We also have to manage all the non-verbal communication between us and the audience • In particular : the emotions • Communicating to an audience involves quite a bit of emotions in the speaker and in the audience • Know them. Use them : • Light jokes • Tense parts • Tension relief • Deep messages • Etc. AC 2002

  8. Managing our image (2) : • The anecdote of the Tibetan monk in the TGV • Looked like the Dalaï-Lama • « L’habit ne fait pas le moine. » • « Est-ce que le moine nécessite l’habit ? » • Roland Barthes : « La tête de l’Abbé Pierre. » AC 2002

  9. Most schooling systems stress passive activities and do not encourage positive self-assertive behaviors : • In most cultures the schooling systems used to stress learning by rote • Accumulative knowledge • It does not stress the « understanding » process • It does not stress the « communicating » process • Kodachrome AC 2002

  10. Examples of activity and self-development oriented schooling systems : • Maria Montessori • Célestin Freinet • Alexander Neill • Beacon Hill (Russell) • All modern Business schools AC 2002

  11. Titles and messages : • A title is not a message • It is a « framework » ; it just says « here is what we shall talk about » • What does « about » mean ? • A message is more communication-effective AC 2002

  12. To talk about something is not the same as to communicate a message : Titles : The city of Cairo Its interesting City of the deads The inhabitated City Messages : The city of Cairo is fascinating Two third of Cairo is made of the City of the deads A substantial part of Cairo population lives in there AC 2002

  13. Egyptian civilisation : one among three civilisations • There is a large band (larger than the Fertile Crescent) that goes from the Nile to the Indus that carry at least three ways to answer the question of existence : • In Egypt civilisation searched for the answer to the problem of existence into the « life of the deads » (the pyramids) • In the Middle-East civilisation searched for the answer to the problem of existence into a « monotheistic god » (the Bible) • In the Indus valley civilisation searched for the answer to the problem of existence into the « no-god boudhist self development » (the boudhist doctrine) AC 2002

  14. In all situations there is a positive side to take advantage of : • Your hotel room is not sound proof ? At one o’clock in the morning you can watch TV with your neighbor sound ? • Carry out a field sociological study. Profile your neigbor ! • We leave foot-prints all over the net TIAS will do this profiling. Will it make Darpa too powerful ? • Google is already too powerful : five or six fellows control half of the world information distribution (this already lead to a recent suit, which Google lost, to reintegrate a page ranking) • LVMH is sueing Morgan Stanley for the same kind of abuse • Read the business newspaper (at least one article chosen at random) with a curious mind every day • Another example : a hotel neighbor has hour-long phone conversations with very little blanks -> Carry out a field communication study. AC 2002

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