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How To Make HR Presentations More Enjoyable

If you’ve ever had to sit through a business presentation directly related to HR topics, you’ve quickly noted that it got dull very fast. Why? Because most HR people are talking about facts and figures around employee performance, personnel policies, and other workplace metrics. Now if you’re on the other side of the presentation you have a chance to make your HR presentations more enjoyable for your audience. Here are some ways to put the “fun” back in HR.

Create great presentation visuals

The key to a great presentation in HR is to create outstanding visuals that illustrate the topics at hand. You can create an effective HR presentation using PowerPoint or other slideshow programs, including great images and videos. The use of pie charts, graphs, flow charts and other business type visuals should be very limited.

Develop interactive materials and handouts

To keep your audience on their toes, you’ll want to make your HR presentation as interactive and hands-on as possible. Create an attractive one-page handout where your audience can take notes and write down questions. If you are conducting your presentation using virtual tools, include at least one poll or survey to get your listeners actively participating.

Do not read from slides, make good notes

The worst thing you can do during in HR presentation is to read through every slide. Instead, use your slides to support your points but have great scripted notes that talk about the topics in a conversational tone. Practice your presentation in advance, using good eye contact and body language, and move around the space as you talk. Never ever stand in one place and just read directly from slides because this will quickly bore listeners.

Inject a little bit of office humor

A great HR presentation includes a little bit of snark. This means to add some office humor into your presentation that is professional yet relevant. Share a favorite quote or story that relates to your presentation. Some suggestions would be relaying information about a recent corporate event, some good things that employees are doing within the organization, or a funny anecdote that you encountered recently on the job.

Share the presentation with a colleague

Another way to shake things up with your HR presentations is to code collaborate with another HR person or manager on your team. Take turns presenting the material in a partner style. Create a conversation and have a great rapport with your colleague. This can be very entertaining to those who are listening.

Provide great information in short snippets

A big factor in a great HR presentation is not offering too little or too much information. Your goal when creating a presentation is to provide useful information in short snippets. For example, you may be talking about employee retention, and you may have 10 points you’d like to make. Limit your points to the top 4 to 5. You will have a greater impact, and you can always follow up with another presentation or include this information in a special report.

Allow for 15 minutes for questions at the end

HR presentations can quickly get out of hand or become very boring if there is too much or not enough participation from attendees. You can solve this problem by limiting all questions and comments until the very end of the presentation. Have a few canned questions prepared in case no one speaks up.

Follow up personally with attendees

Once your HR presentation is completed, your job is now to follow up with any last-minute questions or concerns that come up. Take the time to send a thank-you email out to all of your attendees and include a link to the recorded presentation whenever possible. Answer any questions and share insights from the presentation.

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