Friday, March 14, 2008

5-Minute Presentation Planner

The 5-Minute Presentation Planner ensures that your presentation is purposeful and to the point. Use this to give a presentation to your team or the People required or for an informal discussion to make your point crystal clear and get your key points across.
How to Use this Tool
  1. Define the goal of the Presentation, Keeping an End in Mind.
  2. You need to know your audience's expectations from you, in another word you should know your audience's End In Mind. So Define the Audience.
  3. Define Any Three most Important points keeping in mind the End OF The Presentation. Why Three? As we know the generel pshysic of an audience, they will not rememeber more than three points. This will also help you to be focussed n you could deliver more efficiently.
  4. Define the purpose of the presentation, what you expect from the audience at the end of the presentation. Why they are present for the presentation. Do you want them to approve your project or change the procedure??
  5. Plan the logistics. How many people will attend the Presentation and what are the materials required.

Sunday, March 2, 2008

5-Minute Meeting Planner

The 5-Minute meeting Planner helps you to ensure that you have "end in mind" while conducting a meeting. Use a planner to note the goals and agenda of the meeting. Use your planner to get the consensus on the goals, set the agenda, record the decisions and also follow-up tasks.



Before the Meeting:

1. First and the foremost you need to decide the goals of the meeting. If you can't really define the Goals then there is no point conducting a meeting with your team. These goals which are define should be in Priority basis.

2. Inform your team about the goals of the meeting and how you would like to achieve. Please also clearify before the meeting is conducted if this meeting is for Disussion Session or is there anyone who is going to give a presentation on the same. Is there any Brainstorming?

3. Prepare logistics for the Meeting.

4. Set the agenda by the topic, people responsible and time alloted for each topic.



At The End Of the Meeting:



1. List together the decisions you have made in the end of the meeting.

2. Question yourself if you have achieved your goals at the end of the meeeting, If not then thinks as when,how and where you would accomplish it.

3. Define how you would like to take a follow up and who would be resposible for what work. Also never forget the deadlines that you have to meet.



We will discuss about 5-minute Presentation Planner in my next blog. You All are welcome to send in your comments on the same.