文档介绍：The Key Steps to An Effective Presentation
 
Introduction
The fear of public speaking ranks right up there with death and an IRS Audit for most of the population. What I will attempt to do here is give you a few tips & techniques and a bit of support when es time to make a presentation.
What do I define as a presentation? In the broadest sense, it's every encounter you have with every person you ever meet.
It's when you sit squirming in an interviewer's chair trying to be eloquent when you are asked why you left your last job.
More specifically, however, I'm going to talk about the business presentation. Whenever you are asked to appear in front of one or more people for the purpose of explaining, educating, convincing, or otherwise conveying information to them, you have a presentation.
Compressed to its essence, a presentation consists of three basic elements: you, your audience, your message and your tools.
In this series, we'll look at each one, starting off with planning for your visuals and support materials. Later, we'll look at presentation and speaking techniques, attitudes, travel disasters and other problems faced by both the professional and the occasional presenter.
Visual Presentations - General Guidelines
(Your Tools)
The central purpose of any presentation, written, oral or visual, munication. municate effectively, you must state your facts in a simple, concise and interesting manner. 
It is proven that the people learn more readily and retain more information when learning is reinforced by visualization. You can entertain, inform, excite and even shock an audience by the proper integration of visual images into virtually any exchange of information. 
Meetings which might normally be considered dull, or a chore to be avoided, can be transformed into exciting productions that grab the attention of the viewers. 
This kind of presentation maximizes the audience retention of the subject matter. The phrase "a picture is worth a thou