This slidedeck provides some food for thought for future presenters or existing presenters on presentation skills and wraps some ideas around presentation skills. Discussions on this topic are definitely welcome and accepted. The slidedeck falls into a series of blogs on presentation skills on www.ilikesql.com

1. Food for thought…How to build a set of meaningless introduction slides that will only focus on gaining credibility with the audience at
the event you are presenting at, while yet forgetting that the attendees are there for the session content and not to
hear about your awesomeness, where you’ve been, what you’ve done, and how awesome it is to be you.
B. EATING

2. The Presenter – that’s me 
 Started cooking at the age of 10
 Worked for TOP 500 restaurants
 Presents at major events
 Certified on Natural Gas, Propane,
Butane, Induction, Infrared, Electrical
 Likes chicken, bacon, duck, seafood
 Has 20 chefs working for him
 Authored over 20 books and still writing some
 36 years old
 Shoesize 10.5 US
How to cook
chicken –
Vol.1
A take at steak video series
Pluck a duck
recipes

3. About Me … more
 Many other interesting things that I like to spent the first 15-20
minutes talking about such as:
 Our company
 How awesome we are
 How awesome I am
 How awesome this presentation is going to be ….

4. Things I forgot to mention…
 My name
 My email address
 My website
 My blog
 The communities I support

5. Agenda
 First I will talk about …
 Then I will talk about…
 After that I will talk about…
 And then ..after that I will show you…
 And I will also show you …
 Then I am going to talk about …
 And if we have time … I will talk about ….
 And maybe show you…
 But I might have no time for this

7. Guilty?
Presentation didn’t finish on time | Couldn’t demo what was planned for | Lost grip with the audience after minutes | Multiple people walked out of the room
after sitting in my presentation for only 10 minutes | Was shocked to see the feedback scores and some of the feedback, let’s blame it on the attendee?

8. Time to reconsider

9. Contact
B. Eater
eater@contoso.com
www.contoso.com
@chicken
Master Chef in poultry and meats
CuttingEdge
Certified

10. Presentation built by Dandy Weyn (@ilikesql)
for presentation skills purposes