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NextGen: Powerful Presentations
This document provides tips for giving powerful presentations. It discusses how to plan a presentation by considering the audience and platform. It also offers advice on how to create presentation content, including using visuals like graphs, pictures, and bullet points. Finally, it recommends rehearsing thoroughly to improve delivery and respecting time limits when presenting. The overall message is that understanding your audience and choosing the right format and content are keys to effective presentations.
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- 27. Further Reading • Tomake your presentations better: Give Your Speech, Change the World, by Nick Morgan • To make your pitches more persuasive: To Sell is Human, by Dan Pink • To make your data come alive: Visualize This, by Nathan Yau • On improving your creative skills generally: Steal Like an Artist, Austin Kleon
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