Section 1.10 – Presenting your work as an entrepreneur

What Is Presentation?

There are various ways to communicate ideas to others, but a presentation involves a human aspect because the ideas are presented by a presenter. The personality of the presenter has an impact on the presentation’s quality. The audience and the presenter have an immediate engagement, and questions and responses can be exchanged. To give an excellent presentation, the presenter must be prepared and aware, have an engaging personality, and have a thorough understanding of the issue and subject.

A presentation can be made for a small group of individuals or for a bigger audience. It could be shown in a room or transmitted across a large area via media and the internet. Presentations can be utilized in a variety of settings, including education, business, marketing, research, and social and cultural events. Presentations can be used everywhere there is a requirement for exchanging ideas or educating about a concept.

Two types of presentations;

An audience
And on paper

Whilst we are going to cover both, as an entrepreneur, it is imperative that you are able to first present professionally on the paper. Your future may depend on first delivering a business plan to a bank manager before expanding a business and presenting it to the world.

Essentials of a Good Presentation

Planning: This comprises information such as the date and location of the presentation, as well as whether the presentation is formal and requires a formal setting or is informal. The kind and size of the audience, the tools you’ll need, and the type of audience participation you’re hoping for.

Structure: It’s crucial to pay attention to the content and how it’s conveyed to the audience. As a result, to give content that is engaging and absorbing for the audience, a presenter must have a good grasp of what they desire. Make sure your information is both informative and intriguing. Give the audience only as much information as they can take in in one sitting. Don’t cram too much in.

Content: Make sure the presentation begins with an engaging introduction. Along with the introduction, the presentation should be well-structured and have a body, summary, and conclusion. The material should be organized and arranged in a sensible manner. The tempo should be relaxed and enjoyable. Keep the thread going and don’t stray too far from the original point.

Whether you are presenting to either type, one still needs to use those three points, Planning, structure and content.

The importance of presenting your work

With the help of these activities, you will get to learn new techniques and specific writing tips which assist in your training. With any subject, inclusive digital marketing, continuous practice is required if you want to excel in this field. Practising the activities in these training modules would lead to an improvement of multiple skills; digital marketing skills, enhanced cognitive thinking, analytics skills, the confidence to work or browse social media for information and online research skills.

Believe in yourself, work hard, work smart and passionately present your best to the world – Hill Harper

For your own purpose and academic professionalism, when completing the activities towards the end of each module, please present your work in a professional manner, i.e.;

• Your Name

• Activity(s) No. and Title/question at the top of your work

• Make the reference before or at the end of the quote in the content

• The font is the same type for all your work

• Font is the same size (i.e. 16)

• The colour is the same (i.e. black and one other for special circumstances)

• Reference, credit given …. (who or where your quotes are from)

That way, you could always look back and use any of your own work and content for future projects and utilise the effectiveness of your time invested. Always look to use everything you have done in the past.

When completing activities, try not to share your opinion without comparison to someone else in the field. Most readers are not concerned with one’s personal opinion unless you are a known expert in the field or well-read on the subject by quoting others! It’s essential to make sure you can statistical facts and be careful you do not quote somebody else or someone else opinions. The danger of opinions disengages your audience. So presenting your work you presenting your work on paper is the priority of this lesson that comes first before you can present it to the world. And it needs to be factual, not opinion.

when you are evolving and creating content through research and personal experience, the data and information are valuable and could be of great worth to you in the future. The time invested now could always be used effectively again for your advantage.

Personal opinion is the fastest way to disengage a reader. The best way to retain a reader’s interest is to quote several others to make the argument/point, the 7 essential tips;

1. Use the power of storytelling (yours or quotes from others)

2. Start by identifying the authoritative character (to increase credibility)

3. Focus on actions (what are the progressive results?)

4. Be honest. (comparison of statements)

5. Passionate about the topic. … (research what others say?)

6. Don’t be too creative in giving your opinion. … (quote what others say?)

7. Don’t tell the reader what to do. (Only what others are saying)

This will be a helpful advantage when you learn content writing further on in this training.

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities – Edward Gibbon

REMEMBER, FIRST KNOW HOW TO PRESENT YOUR OWN WORK ON PAPER OR THE ELECTRONIC FORMAT, THEN CONCENTRATE ON HOW TO DELIVER A PROFESSIONAL PERFORMANCE TO AN AUDIENCE, i.e. PowePoint presentation, lecture, seminar etc.

Organise your actual work and then store it in an organised manner and fill away with the intention to retrieve it in a given moment easily. This is just as important and can be challenging more so in electronic file format because of the many subject and topics.

Summary

A good presentation requires planning, structure and content
Two types of presentations, to yourself and to an audience.
learn first to present your work on paper or in electric format, then to deliver to an audience.

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