Think back to the last presentation you gave—was it memorable? Did you come away from it feeling like a rock star? Check out this informative webinar deck featuring tips & tricks on how to take your public speaking skills to the next level. Presentation conceived, researched, written and delivered by Katherine Swank, J.D., August 2013.

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High Quality Presentations:
How-to become a “Top 10” speaker
PRESENTED BY KATHERINE SWANK, J.D.,
SENIOR CONSULTANT, TARGET ANALYTICS

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Title Senior Fundraising Consultant
Development
Background
Health, Public Broadcasting & Higher Education
Interesting
Facts
• Past president, Colorado Planned Giving
Roundtable
• Member, State Bar of Arizona
• Affiliate faculty, Regis University’s Masters in
Global Nonprofit Leadership program
• Blogger @ npENGAGE
Contact &
Follow:
• Katherine.Swank@Blackbaud.com
• @KatherineSwank
• http://www.linkedin.com/in/katherineswank/
• http://www.slideshare.net/kswank
Katherine Swank, J.D.
YOUR PRESENTER

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Basic Tenets of Presentations
Audience Participation
Give Away a Secret
Give Away a Resource
Give Away your Presentation
OUR AGENDA

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BASIC TENETS OF PRESENTATIONS

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• Everything’s fine
• Everything’s wrong
• Keep a backup
• Get there early
• Dress the part
• Survey your audience
PREPAREDNESS

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YOUR PRESENTER
Title Senior Fundraising Consultant
Development
Background
Health, Public Broadcasting & Higher Education
Interesting
Facts
• Past president, Colorado Planned Giving
Roundtable
• Affiliate faculty, Regis University’s Masters in
Global Nonprofit Leadership program
• Member, State Bar of Arizona
• Blogger @ npENGAGE
Contact &
Follow:
• Katherine.Swank@Blackbaud.com
• @KatherineSwank
• http://www.linkedin.com/in/katherineswank/
• http://www.slideshare.net/kswank
Katherine Swank, J.D.
Make Your Bio Your Standard Second Slide

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Basic Tenets of Presentations
Audience Participation
Give Away a Secret
Give Away a Resource
Give Away your Presentation
OUR AGENDA
Your Agenda Can BE Your Presentation

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ALWAYS KEEP LEARNING
Go to
other
sessions
Practice
makes
perfect –
including
testing your
slides on
the
presentation
format
Read
more
about It
Take a
confident
stance –
Body
language
Admit you
don’t
know –
Then find
the
answer

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• Very few bullet points
• Very few words
• Your presentation is not a document
- It’s a presentation!
USE THE K.I.S.S. PRINCIPLE

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NOT THIS PRINCIPLE
• Be sure to use very few bullet points because the more bullet points you use the
harder it is to follow along and to listen, really listen, to what the speaker is sharing
because you are reading and not listening. I’ll bet you’re not listening – are you?
• Don’t use lots of fonts for emphasis or lots of words to get your point across. Instead
use white space and fewer words. After all, you want people to engage in the general
concepts and discussion and not to learn from reading. Some people will put on their
evaluation that you just read from the PowerPoint slide and THAT’S NOT WHAT
YOU WANT. ThaT’s noT whaT you wanT – Right?
• I’m going to repeat what I had on the previous slide because I really want you to get this
concept down and I couldn’t find an alternative way to say it. Your presentation is not a
document. It’s a presentation! So think about the audience member and how hard it’s going to
be to read this slide. Yes you had a lot to say but you didn’t need to put it on this slide. You
have other ways of sharing information and I’ve addressed that later in this presentation.
• Can you read this font size from the back of room? If you can, you have superhuman eyesight and
the government probably has a job for you in a secret building, in a secured location, where you
get to interact with other superhumans as well. Maybe the soda machine is free there too 
• Keep most of your points in the top 2/3 of the page and don’t mix
a lot of visuals with a lot of text either. You want and deserve to
be a “Top 10” speaker and you’ll be one if you follow these simple
rules.

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20
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60
80
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Liked Didn't Like Didn't Attend Wish Had
Attended
Wish They
Were Me
About My Presentation
CHANGE IT UP

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AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION

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INVOLVEMENT
During the Presentation
• “A funny thing happened on the way to the forum…”
• “How many of you…?”
• “What’s your experience with…?”
• “Do you agree?”
• “Does anyone know the answer to that question?”
After the Presentation
• Invite questions
• Hang around for a few minutes
• Provide your contact information
• Ask for business cards with written questions

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GIVE AWAY A SECRET, A RESOURCE, YOUR
PRESENTATION

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SECRETS
Raiser’s Edge
Example
Instructions
Demo
Recipe

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RESOURCES
Stuff….
everybody
wants it!
I have a rare copy
of our popular
book ….. for the
best question
during the session
Raffle for a
complementary 30-
minute consultation
on this topic....

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• Slideshare.net
- Free
- Other Blackbaud Nonprofit Experts post here as well
• Post this presentation
• Post a longer presentation
• Share other presentations of interest
PRESENTATION SHARING

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High Quality Presentations:
How-to become a “Top 10” speaker
PRESENTED BY KATHERINE SWANK, J.D.,
SENIOR CONSULTANT, TARGET ANALYTICS
Find this presentation @ http://www.slideshare.net/kswank

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CONTACT INFO & QUESTIONS
Thank you!
Katherine Swank, J.D.
Senior Consultant, Target Analytics
843-670-7278
Katherine.Swank@Blackbaud.com