What's the Best Way to Start a Presentation?

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  Bigstaff11/30/07 Report as spam
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  Opening for presentation....

  Have participants write down their month, date and year of birth, then add up until single digit is reached for each. Then add up all three until single digit is reached. Call out a few people and ask their number, you'll get a response ranging from 0 - 9. What is most fun about this activity is (1) it gets people motivated and thinking (2) audience is fully engaged in presentation (3) it keeps them engaged and networking throughout the session. Here is how it keeps them engaged, you put up the response for each single digit (this is on a slide I always keep as the last slide). While people are reading their number, others are conversating about if it is true/false of that person. The liveliness and communication that takes place is remembered as a good presentation and you'll be remembered as an excellent presenter....

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  somil garg12/01/07 Report as spam
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  RE: What's the Best Way to Start a Presentation?

  But with a limited time it is practically difficult to quote jokes, rituals, storeies. etc

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  fowlbruce12/02/07 Report as spam
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  RE: What's the Best Way to Start a Presentation?

  IT rather depends on the audience. If you are delivering a decision briefing, humor may be ill advised. The presence and nature of the attention getter needs to be tuned to the audience, which gets back to the first rule of presentation composition, know your audience.