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Organizing Your Presentations

Everyone may speak truly, but to speak logically, prudently, and adequately is a talent few possess.

——Montaigne1

Dynamic trainers excel at two sets of presentation skills: organizing their presentations and delivering them. In this chapter, we’ll focus on how to organize dynamic presentations. Chapter 10 provides guidelines for delivering dynamic presentations.

Five Options for Delivering Training Presentations

There are five commonly used approaches to delivering training content in workshops:

1. Use video presentations.

2. Read the presentations from the training manual.

3. Memorize the presentations.

4. Use off-the-cuff delivery.

5. Deliver the presentations extemporaneously based on easy-to-remember outlines. ...

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