## Positioning of presentation - Information Entertainment Scale - Do you want the presentation to be fully informative - NEWS - Do you want it to be completely entertaining - StandUp Comedy **Balance:** I'm a professional troublemaker (use of Oxymorons) ## How to Position? Depends on YOU and your AUDIENCE ## Informative Presentation: ### **Pyramid Principle**: (useful to set the flow for the presentation, where you have a point you want to make) - Sharing the information in an easy to digest and answer first way: ![[Presentation_Skills_1.png]] ### 1. Conclusion: Answer First ### 2. Supporting Arguments: Sharing 3 supporting arguments to ensure the audience is completely convinced. ### 3. Supporting Evidence: If the audience is really picky (like maybe in an interview) be ready with 3 pieces of supporting evidence to the first supporting arguments to make it exhaustively convincing. *Conclusion: Without giving an end goal for your audience to focus on. its very easy for them to get distracted with tangents and details that are not important to what one is trying to get across.* --- ## Informative & Entertaining Presentation: ### **Curiosity Gap:** (using this, people cant' help but to pay attention to your presentation) > Its important when you reveal key information (this injects entertainment: people are curious to know what would actually happen) > The essence is to - NOT REVEAL THE ANSWER Most crucial part - The Beginning: Tell the audience: 1. What it's about 2. Why it's relevant 3. What they'll get (out of this presentation) All these three have to be done at the same time without giving away the answer. eg. YouTube: #Edu-tainment --- ### **Adaptive Pyramid Principle:** Work with analogies and stories to make your presentation more entertaining (in place of supportive evidence: ![[Presentation_Skills_2.png]] This ensures there's enough structure to the presentation for people to retain the information and you actually make it more memorable and easier to #recall with stories and analogies. --- ## Entertaining Presentation: ### **Rate of Revelation:** Nutshell: How fast you reveal key information! Basically keep giving enough dopamine to the audience in fast intervals too keep them hooked to the presentation.