# Planning a presentation
Lon Setnik, MD
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## The triangle:
- what you are saying
- what you are showing
- what the audience is doing
_These all 3 work together so the audience can develop [[Understanding is wise performance]]_
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## Questions:
1. What are your goals? 1-2 max. Big picture: How are people going to BE DIFFERENT after this presentation
2. What are your constraints?
3. What are your key points? - use to outline
4. What will you be showing? This must enhance, not distract
5. What will you say? - your script, NOT the powerpoint
6. What will the audience be doing? Is there anything they can DO to engage around the material? What can they walk away with?
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## When designing your slides:
_Budget about 2 minutes per slide at the fastest_
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### 1. Build a basic framework or scaffold
![[Building a Slide Presentation.png]]
_Let people know where they are in the presentation with signposting_
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### 2. Fill in the main points
![[Building a Slide Presentation 1.png]]
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### 3. Build in activities: times for people to engage around the material
![[Building a Slide Presentation 2.png]]
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### 4. look at the whole thing and ask how it feels!
Visual Monotony: check for this on the slide sorter view. Don’t do this, it takes mental energy for people to keep attention
![[Avoid Visual Monotony.png]]
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