Use These Powerful Tools to Help You Put Together and Deliver Your Presentation

In all stages of your preparation for actual presentation of  your information  use  two very powerful tools if you want to succeed.


These are:   Clustering, developed by Gabriele Lusser Rico Ph.D author of the bestselling book   Writing The Natural Way  and Mind  Mapping created by  Tony Buzan and developed himself and other like Vanda North and Jamie Nast.


Tony Buzan has a number of excellent books, such as The Mind Map Book published  that can help you develop skills in  this technique, while Jamie Nast  has published  her book, Idea Mapping  and  Professor Rico  has a series of books titled, Writing the Natural Way focussing on clustering and other writing techniques.


With clustering  you  write the central idea of your topic in the centre of a piece of paper in a circle (ideally as large as possible and laid out landscape style) and then as quickly as possible  write related ideas  in balloons  around the  the central idea -- attached to it with lines like the strings on a balloon.


With Mind Mapping or Idea Mapping as Jamie Nast describes it in her book  the central idea is also written in the centre of a large piece of paper. Ideally, both Buzan and Nast say,  this idea should be as visual as possible  using an illustration rather than words.


The main points of the topic are written in arms or branches radiating out from this central idea like the branches of a tree.


Both of these techniques can help you to create and organize ideas as well as to analyze, write, and edit them and then you can use them, particularly Mind Mapping  in the actual oral delivery of your ideas and information.