Develop engaging presentations with generative AI

- [Instructor] I believe that anytime you share an idea with someone else, you are giving a presentation, but it's challenging to always present your ideas in clear and engaging ways. An AI tool can be a great speaking coach, whether you're sharing on video, on stage, or even in classroom presentations. There are AI tools that can help you with almost any aspect of a presentation from content generation, design help, creating interesting openers and closers, designing slides, and even giving you real-time feedback. No matter what tool you use, the key is using what I call the big idea formula. In my research on TED Talks, I learned that there is a formula for giving effective presentations, whether they're two minutes or two hours. First, tell the AI tool your big idea. What is the one big idea you want someone to remember or take away from your presentation? Second, what style of presenting would you like to use? There are so many different ways we can present ideas. Think of a speaking mentor, celebrity, or famous orator who captivates an audience in a style you would like to use. Here are some examples I regularly use. If you want to present an impressive update or powerful idea, ask the AI to use the presenting style of Steve Jobs. If you want to share an inspiring story or personal belief, ask the AI to use the presenting style of Brené Brown. If you want to motivate people and spur change, ask the AI to use the style of Oprah. For fun, I once asked AI to write a speech in my style, Vanessa Van Edwards. It used all of my public talks and videos to create an amazing and shockingly spot-on speech. Consider uploading any previous videos of you talking or scripts or articles you have written so it can create in your style. Lastly, tell the AI how it should support your big idea. Do you need examples, stories, data, facts, historical case studies? If you think visuals would help, use a multimodal tool to create images, videos, tables, animations, and even data visualizations. There are AI tools that can create complete slide decks simply based on a short text prompt from you. Special tip: already have a presentation drafted. Paste in what you have and ask the AI to improve or flesh out your ideas. AI tools can even suggest optimal layouts, fonts, and color schemes for your slides. Here is a prompt template you can use, and I've also dropped it in the exercise files so you can copy and paste it. I am giving a blank-minute presentation on my big idea. I want the audience to learn what you want them to remember. Please help me write a adjective presentation in the style of Steve Jobs. It should be compelling and captivating, use at least one story, one interesting piece of data, and end on an action step. Please create a table explaining specific aspect of the idea. Ask me questions to create the best presentation possible. Right now, try to create a presentation using this prompt template. This can be an idea you need to present at work or something more fun, like crafting a presentation to pitch your partner on where to eat for dinner on Saturday night.