How to present an idea

Know what you want to say. 

Know who you want to say it to.

Know how you are going to say it. 

Research and organize your ideas. 

Be logical.

Back up your statements with facts, evidence, and other

Do not overwhelm your audience with statistics or numbers. 

Build your Credibility Keep it simple Keep it short.

Once you have clear the idea you want to present and what you want to achieve by presenting it, you have to concentrate upon the modality of making this idea clear to your audience.

First rule: do not present many "ideas" (you will confuse your audience): just present one coherent vision.

The coherent vision will be composed of different elements: develop the main points and order them strategically.

Step 1, Develop a General Premise

Step 2, Generate Main Points and Organize Them Strategically

Step 3, Create an Introduction and Conclusion

Step 4, Fill in Transitions

Constructing a presentation will require that you begin by developing your goal and translate that goal into a general premise that you will state to your audience.

The premise will answer to this question: is this presentation a component of a communication plan? What plan? Of which project? To achieve which purpouse?

After you have established a premise, you will be able to generate main points to support this claim. Be sure to coherently organize these main points so that the audience can easily follow your flow of ideas.

Limit the number of main points to 2-5 for clarity and time, keep main points separate (transitions separate ideas) and balance the time spent on each point.

After you have developed your main points, you will need to fill in the introduction and conclusion. 

Create the introduction first—the conclusion really reiterates much of what is said in the introduction.

The introduction opens the speech and is responsible for getting the audiences attention, relating the topic to the audience, establishing the speaker’s credibility and previewing the main points of the presentation. 

Prior to delivering your presentation, your final step will be to develop transitions that lead your audience between parts of the presentation and between distinct, main ideas.