Prepare an appealing talk about your energy community using our PowerPoint slide set as starting point for presenting your project. Pick and mix individual slides from the set depending on how you find it best to present your specific project. Insert your own logo and pictures.
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This presentation provides you with two essential competences:
- a concept on how to structure a convincing presentation, and
- an adaptable design.
How to use the PowerPoint slide set
→ Download and save the file.
→ Insert the logo of your own energy community or delete the placeholder logo if you don’t have a logo by clicking on View → slide master → editing the first slide.
→ Individualise the presentation by inserting information on your own energy community.
→ Replace symbolic images with your own: Select picture → Right mouse click → Change picture
→ Loosen up the presentation by inserting arrows, info boxes, pictograms, and diagrams as shown on slides 8, 9, 16, 17 (consider the notes for slides 16 and 17)
When creating your own presentation, there are some tips you might find useful:
Do
Prepare your slides and plan the presentation:
→ Prepare the slides so that you speak for one to two minutes per slide.
→ Allow some buffer time for questions from the audience. You can ask for them to be posed at the end of your presentation.
→ Include essential information in your slides:
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- Answer the 5 Ws as far as they are relevant: What, Who, Why, When, Where.
- Call for action: persuade the reader to take the desired action.
- List the benefits of joining your project, e.g. using bullet points.
- Provide your contact details.
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→ Make sure the content of your slides is well structured, e.g. is there a chronological order to be considered or are there thematic blocks that should be kept together?
→ Use visual elements like pictures or illustrations and the project’s logo if there is one.
→ Include interactive elements, such as asking questions to the audience.
Rehearse your presentation and time it:
→ If you have graphs and pictures, take the time to describe them (x- and y-axis; what is being depicted, etc.) before saying why you are showing them to the audience.
→ Try to speak freely so that you can maintain eye contact with your audience.
→ When presenting, some people tend to speak faster than in regular conversations. Try to keep a steady, relaxed pace and pause briefly after sentences to give your audience time to process what you have said.
→ If you have complex content or information that is new to your audience, try to make analogies to normal life, e.g. that the PV panel with x kW produces enough energy per day to drive an electric car from (local) town A to (local) town B.
During your presentation:
→ If you find it difficult to keep eye contact with people, you can look slightly beyond the back row of your audience.
Don’t
→ Overload your slides with information.
→ Use too many effects, as they might be distracting.
→ Use a font size smaller than 14 to 16 points for the standard text.
→ Have more than eight lines per slide.
To see how to use your presentation to best reach your potential members, have a look at how to present at local events.