effective presentations

There are 300 million PowerPoint users in

the world

They do 30 million presentations a day

About a million presentation are

going on right now

50 percent of them are unbearable

Lots of people are killing each other with bad

presentations right now

They are all dead! Well … almost!

Lets make the world a better place

How to Create and Deliver an Effective

Presentation

Summary

Essential Ingredients

Research and Outlining

5 Rules for a Better Presentation

Designing & Graphics

Practice & Delivery

Essential Ingredients

Research Shows

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Bullets don’t kill people

People kill people

Unintentionally

Yet Regularly

Mainly due to lack of…

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Significance

Structure

Simplicity

Rehearsal

Significance

Why do you Present?

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What’s the subject and why it matters to you?

How Presentations work

Significance creates passion

Passion attracts attention

Attention leads to action

Check Yourself! Are You Passionate?

Structure 21 3 4

Structure is how you place the building blocks of your story

Structure Choices

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Problem – Pathway – Solution

Problem – Solution – Reasoning

Fancy Stuff (As long as it makes sense)

Give 3 or 4 reasons supporting your point.

They will not remember more anyway.

Simplicity 31 2 4

In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme

excellence is simplicity“ “

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

See PDF for examples

41 2 3Rehearsal

It will never work completely the first time … Trust Me

Feedback …. Go get Some!

You Presentation Recipient

No Audience? Present to the Furniture … but aloud. Try it!

5 Steps for

Researching and OutliningLaying the Foundation for an Effective

Presentation

Establish Your Presentation Topic 1

• Why is this presentation important?

• What are the “Must Knows”• How will this information

benefit my audience?

Identify Time Limits2• General rule: allow 1 – 2

minutes for each slide• Example: 10 content slides

for 15 minute presentation

Find Credible Sources for Research3

• General rule 1: select 5 – 10 quality sources

• General rule 2: print sources• General rule 3: Take 1 to 2 days

to read, highlight and make notes on material Breathe Sleep!

Type a Speaking Outline by Topic4

• General rule: Whatever works for you. Just don’t read from the slide

Build Your Presentation5• Allow 1 to 2 days for

construction• General rule: Text 1st –

Graphics 2nd

5 Rules for a Better Presentation

Rule #1: Don’t give your presentation software center stage

Rule #2: Create a logical flow to your presentation

Rule #3: Make your presentation readable

Rule #4: Remember, less is more

Rule #5: Distribute a handout

Designing your Presentation

Titles & Headings

Smart Art

Backgrounds

Embedding Videos

JPEG versus PNG files

Crafting superior graphics

Titles & Headings

OVERV IEW

Profound SecrecyThe RED Army RISING

ANTI-SATELLITE WEAPONS TEST

Navy Seals

Recon Marines

Pararescue

Ranger

Security Implications

PRC Intentional Satellite

Destruction

Increased Space Debris in LEO

Increase Risk to U.S. Satellites &

over 700 Spacecrafts

Capability to attack U.S. satellites

Tracking & Targeting

Capabilities by Military & Intel

Satellites

DoD Est. by 2010 ASAT production able to destroy

most U.S. satellites in LEO

Develop Stealth

Satellite Technology

Satellite Defense Systems

Unilateral Agreement to

Space Weaponization

Summary

Historical Background

NRO Early Years

Mission & Functions

NRO Today

Leadership & Staffing

Bureaucratic Challenges

Future Focus Areas

HUMAN INTELLIGENCE

Offensive Military Signals

POSSIBLE “SELF CONFIDENCE” TEST• Countering U.S. Forces in possible Taiwan dispute• Weapons challenge U.S. Space Dominance

2006 U.S. NATIONAL SPACE POLICY RESPONSE• Denial of space to adversaries “hostile” to U.S. Interests• Before U.S. Space Policy PRC conducted 3 ASAT test and ground based

laser to illuminate a U.S. satellite in “blinding” tests

PRODING THE UNITED STATES IN ARMS CONTROL?• Analysts cited PRC’s “peaceful motive was to prompt U.S. to engage in

space arms control• In Dec 2006, U.S. solely voted against UN Res. on “Prevention of Arms

Race In Outer Space” - PAROS

American Policy Options

Sample Backgrounds

THIS BRIEF IS UNCLASSIFIED

Suppression of the Prague in 1968

Gordievsky assigned to Copenhagen, 1974

MOTIVES• Russia’s failure to abolish communism• Propaganda & Brutality of Soviet Policy• Soviet invasion of the Czechoslovak Socialist

Republic• A sense of duty to his country

“Until the early 1970s I clung to the hope that the Soviet Union might still reject the Communist yoke and progress to freedom

and democracy” - Gordievsky

THIS BRIEF IS UNCLASSIFIED

"I never met anyone in the KGB who believed in the possibility of a first nuclear strike by the U.S., yet they all reported on the signs of such an attack because they were ordered to do it. They were afraid to say what they really thought.“ – Oleg Gordievsk

THIS BRIEF IS UNCLASSIFIED

John ScarlettDirector: MI6 British Intelligence ServiceGordievsky Case Offi cer

Eliza Manningham-BullerDirector General, MI5

KEY PLAYERS

Aldrich AmesCIA Counter Intelligence Offi cer

NRO Leadership

17th Director of the NROApp. 12 June 2009

GENERAL BRUCE CARLSON (RET)

Commander, Air Force Material CommandApp. 1 December 2005

THIS BRIEF IS UNCLASSIFIED

• Intelligence Breakdown• Think one step ahead of the

competition• Take care of your sources• Values can change

CONCLUSION

Tips for Finding Backgrounds

Search photography websites either using defined keywords or searching “abstract” or “surreal” categories”

JPEG versus PNG pictures

Google search method: Search: (Search Term) Filetype:PNG

PNG files•Enhanced quality than JPEG or GIF•Transparent backgrounds

Effective Layering

Transparent BackgroundWhite Background

JPEG PNG

Messy Layering

Example: JPEG Slide

Example: PNG Slide

Good PNG keywords to use in search

•“Outline”•“Vector”•“Silhouette”•“Line”•“Clip Art”

Cannot Copy and Paste PNG files directly into presentation

1.Right click on picture and save to file2.Right click on picture in file and hit “Copy”3.Paste picture in file (Ie: desktop) and hit

“Paste”

Embedding YouTube Videos

Download Realplayer•Enable web downloading & recording

Save video from Realplayer download tab to computer file

Select “movie” from “Insert” tab in PowerPoint

Convert file to WMV file (.mov extension) in Realplayer