Prepare handouts, but give them out at the end, or they end up flicking through them and not looking at you. Say at the begining you have handouts (colour)
Successfull partnerships, obviously business ones. Suppliers, training organisation. shareholders/stake holders. What you get out of it, what they get out of it and the result.
With 3 its easy, keep it friendly.
J
If your using powerpoint, then you get to choose the layout of each new slide that you create.
Remember to have structure and don't forget a summary at the end, which some people forget to do.
Rules of presentations
Say what you are going to say (intro) 2 min
Say it (main Body) (yours georgeous) 6 min
Say what you have said (summary) 2 min
Give definition of successful partnership
Intelligent "learing organisations" learn from "mistakes in a no blame culture"
Us your experience to show why some partnerships don't work and say why you will be different.
Don't worry it's only 10 minutes so keep to time.
Go on department web site and look at what they want and buzz words.
All the best
Hi there,
Dont worry about the content too much sounds as if they are looking at a behavioural based assessment so it will be how you say rather than what you say. Do you know anyone in the department who can tell you about their perfomance management system, if they have one the interview etc will be based around that and may apear a little strange.
Feel free to pm me, this is what i do to earn a crust and more than happy to help.
a
Have just spent the past 2 days writing a presentation for friend who has a job interview tomorrow and had left it till the last minute.
When you say successful partnership, what do you mean? Between who? The government agency and outside users? etc
If you want some help with it then pm me with details and I will see what advice I can give you. I can also help with putting it togoether on powerpoint, it's really easy once you get the hang of it.
I would definately have handouts, bear in mind that presentations should just outline the ideas and you will usually expand on what is one the slides. For my friends interview, I also prepared a report going over the points in greater detail to leave with the panel.
Remember to time yourself anfd be strict, 0 minutes seems like forever when your first planning these things, but goes really quickly.
In my real life I deal with presentations etc all the time and my job is often about partnership or lack thereof, inclusing working practices, implementing joint working and partnership agreements (I'm a trade union official)
Give me a shout if you want me to help in any way.
And please keep the slides simple! Death by PowerPoint is using the effects it contains so that the slides compete with you instead of supporting you.
Don't use a MS background - use a simple coloured background and contrast the text colours nicely. For a short presentation dark text on a light ground is fine, for a longer one the reverse is better.
WW
I have to make presentations on an regular basis - there has been some good advice here.
I would only reiterate about using powerpoint. A lot of people will just read out whats on the screen - assuming that your audience can read, then that is just tedious. Try to keep each screen simple - there will be points that you want them to remember so put them on the slide - an example may be -
Slide -
We employ 3000 people
Turnover 3 billion
Invest 1 billion each year on product development
Local Offices throughout the UK
You say for example -
"I listed some facts that I hope show that we are well established, financially stable with an ever improving product with localised support and therefore best placed to help you provide a better service/make more money/improve effieciency etc.
I know the example may not be relevant to your presentation but the rule is the same.
Hope this helps
Thanks to everyone who have given me some really good advice on this. As I said, delivering presentations, chairing meetings, delivering Project Training Courses - no problems! A presentation during an interview, well that is new!
I have been with my present employer for 14 years and even though I have had interviews during this time, they have all been internal promotion panels, so going out to another govenerment department, who work on a completely new subject matter, well that is a completely different thing!
I have just under 2 weeks to pull all the info together and a few people have offered to look at the content/layout for me. My other half as agreed to video tape me doing the presentation so I can look at where I am going wrong, and a friend has offered to print out and bind 'handouts' for me!
All I need to do now, is do a dummy run to the place and find where they are based and the nearest car park!
Thank you so very much for all this help, and I really do owe loads of people a drink or two at the next munch!
Thank you :inlove:
Can't help you with the content, but I've given a few Powerpoint presentations recently.
Keep the slides simple, except perhaps for the first and last where you want to grab their attention and then leave them with something to remember.
The rest should just be basic simple bullet points with a single word or phrase to emphasise what you are saying.
Don't put too many points on one page.
Lastly, a small audience like yours can be daunting and rather intimidating. My solution is to look at them and picture them sitting on the loo - it makes them human like the rest of us. Just don't burst out laughing if the image is too ridiculous.
There are some fantastic slide backgrounds on the msn office website (thats OFFICE not Orifice) and try to get a copy of office 2003.
A big tip is not to talk to the screen, it is possible to have notes showing on your laptop without it appearing on the main presentation screen.
Before talking about each slide, san the room, break each sentence down and make eye contact with a different person and deliver that piece of info directly to them as you make eye contact. Its called 'nuggetting' i.e. giving each person a 'nugget' of information, keeps them awake, and concentrating, at the end of the day the content isnt as important as the way you deliver the presentation, else they wouldnt be asking you to deliver one.
oh theres some great flowchart templates on the MSN office website too.
Dont I know it, silly thing is that in another few months I could well be one of those pesky surplus staff!
but not a lot on the successful ones! I also have experience of doing presentations to very large groups but have never done one to just three people! 
(but it was fun, wasn't it). Thank Baz for the offer (if he knows he has made it).
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