Style of presentation
6 Useful Presentation Styles to Learn From
When
selecting your ideal presentation style, be sure to consider which kind of
supporting materials or mediums you will utilize to effectively get your point
across. Using pre-designed template solutions such as Beautiful.AI’s presentation software can help you to enhance your
presentation skills with incredibly designed visual aids. Bear this in mind
when deciding which presentation style is ideal for you.
The Storyteller
An
individual that uses the Storyteller type of presenting shares a
former anecdote related to their presentation subject to connect with their
audience. If you do have a great story to share, then do so, but make sure that
it is genuine to have the most impact on your audience.
The Director
A Director is an individual that likes
order. They like outlines and slideshows. If this describes you, integrate this
into your presentation and plan in advance. It will greatly enhance the message
you are trying to convey to your audience.
The Closer
Sometimes,
you will be presenting to a group that doesn’t have time to listen to you. A
Closer is someone that gets straight to the point. Every presenter should have
a dose of this in them somewhere, which will help them know when to tell an
anecdote and when to get to the bottom line to please their
audience.
Data Statistician
Data is
useful when trying to show trends. Data statisticians are always trying to
throw that extra chart into their presentation. If this is you, make sure your
graphs and calculations are clean and polished. This will leave a positive
impression on your audience.
Visual Style
Some
presenters are visual in that they will use pictures, charts or anything to
stimulate their audience’s imagination to enhance the presentation. Make sure
you have a healthy balance of text and images when you are this sort of
presenter to leave a professional impression that is still a productive use of
time for your audience.
Freeform Style
Freeform
is a type of presenter where the individual doesn’t need slides and they focus
on short stories about their experiences. This type of presentation is the most
useful when the individual has a great deal of experience about their subject
matter. Use this presentation style with caution to have the best possible delivery.
Final Remarks
Knowing
which kind of presentation style is ideal for you is very important. At times,
it is useful to combine more than one style of presentation to have the most
successful impact. Carefully assess what your strengths are and choose
presentation aids that enhance your strengths. Once you do so, you will notice
a great deal of improvement of your presentation skills along with increased
confidence in your abilities.
D Overall Impression
What is overall impression?
The
circuit has changed a lot over the past 10 years. It is as connected as it ever
was and dance competitions are more like five-star resort experiences compared
to what they were half a decade ago (close enough when you’re a broke undergrad
haha).
However, go to any dance competition and after the judging results are announced there will be a flurry of differing opinions from audience members, dancers, and even judges as to who should have placed or won. This is a natural reaction and being critical is what progresses the dance community as it allows us all to think independently.
I know I used to do this all the time and still do because being a dance-nerd, I always like to ask why a team placed or won and how. This brings me to the point of differing opinions about dance performances. When we say “Team A should have have placed over Team B”, what we really mean to say is “Based on my overall impression, I believe Team A should have placed over Team B.”
Let’s try to break this theory down to understand what this actually means. On most dance competition rubrics, there are around 10 points or so allocated for overall impression. Overall impression, in general, is defined as what you think overall on a scale of 1-10 a team’s performance was.
In a more deeper sense, it is a function of many factors like choreography, creativity, “X-factors”, and performance factors which can be explicitly quantified by some number. However, the implicit metrics we use to judge the overall impression are derived from our respective dance backgrounds, our dance philosophy, what our definition of creativity and innovation are, and other more personal factors which are hard to quantify. Thus, our overall impression is a function of explicit and implicit factors.
When we say a certain team should have placed over another team, we are purely basing this statement off of our overall impression because that is the go-to metric by which we are able to judge dance heuristically. Overall impression is like rating things like beauty and taste. Overall impression thus can be reduced down to our preferences. Overall impression is about our likes and dislikes. We fall back on overall impression when we have no judging rubric at hand.
However, one cannot judge accurately the placings of a dance competition purely based on overall impression as each dance competition has its own rubric. However, one can argue that there are correlations of certain elements in the rubric with overall impression. For many people in the circuit, choreography is highly correlated with their overall impression. The same can be said with cleanliness, energy, and sync
The point of this article is to differentiate our sentiments during dance competitions and define what these sentiments actually are. There is a lot of disappointment in the results of many dance competitions and everyone has the right to be disappointed. However, if we are able to understand that we are talking about our overall impression and not what the rubric emphasizes, we will have less dispute and disappointment with the results of dance competitions. It’s an obvious observation but one that needs to be made.
Examples of overall impression
Her overall impression is
that she came to teaching with 'a very good background to teach'.
From Cambridge
English Corpus
Perhaps
inevitably, the overall impression given by the book is rather
unfocused.
From Cambridge
English Corpus
The
colors are varied and striking and contribute to
the overall impression of exactness in the detail and variety in
the general.
From Cambridge
English Corpus
Ratings
were averaged to create a measure of the overall impression each
study member made.
From Cambridge
English Corpus
But
the overall impression one gets from cross-tabulated tables is
that attention strongly determines participation and vice versa.
From Cambridge
English Corpus
The overall impression received
from the symposium was that the mechanisms used by cells (including bacteria)
for genome maintenance are extremely complex.
From Cambridge
English Corpus
The
selection of topics is idiosyncratic and their compilation under the given
title cannot help but convey a misleading overall impression of
the field.
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