Housekeeping Presentation Pdf
Lorri Dent
This document discusses housekeeping and its importance in the workplace. It defines housekeeping as keeping unnecessary items cleared away and necessary items in their proper places. Good housekeeping is important as it promotes quality, safety, productivity and a clean environment. It helps by providing a place for everything, eliminating searching time, and improving discipline and productivity through organization. Good housekeeping reduces accidents and fires, optimizes space usage, keeps inventory low, controls property damage, and guarantees a good workplace appearance. It is the foundation of a safe workplace by removing hazards and improving visibility of hazards. The document outlines signs of poor housekeeping and methods to improve housekeeping through cleaning, proper storage, waste management, and establishing housekeeping programs and policies.Read less
When a meeting is about to start, a facilitator has to set the tone for the rest of the session. A good way to do this is to let everyone know what you will cover in the meeting and also by creating a fun ice-breaking exercise that you can all do together.
Housekeeping in a meeting refers to the administrative tasks and procedures that need to be taken care of before, during, and after the meeting. The purpose of housekeeping is to ensure that the meeting runs smoothly and efficiently.
If there are refreshments served at your meeting, workshop or event, tell participants the etiquette for self-service. For example, can people help themselves during the event or are refreshments only available at fixed times?
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In the business world, some of the most common of these include the handshake to indicate a partnership or a mutually beneficial deal, a group of hard-working smiling people around a conference table to demonstrate collaboration and teamwork, and people huddled together looking at the screen of a laptop to indicate sharing of information.
There are literally hundreds of millions of photographic images available online that would better serve your presentation than a clich stock photo. You can use scenic images, historical images, images from sports, theater and the arts. There are many inexpensive stock photo sites offering images that can help you go beyond these clichs.
You were no doubt invited to speak before your audience because of your expertise on a particular topic. You are there to inform and inspire. Churchill never started a speech by telling people to enjoy the buffet afterward.
Slides should serve as backdrops for your presentation, providing visual support. No one expects the entire presentation to be printed on the slides. If that were the case, you would not need to show up.
In most cases, your audience will probably have a good sense of humor. Humor is a great way to connect with an audience and put them at ease. Well-placed humorous remarks can also help relax the audience and the speaker.
There is often the temptation to add a captioned cartoon to a slide to use humor to make a point in the presentation. While there are people who will be amused by the cartoon, it can land with a dull thud for others.
The problem is every amateur presentation designer has access to these and uses them liberally. Since they are overused, they can make your presentation look cheap or hastily assembled. If possible, use some other kind of graphical device to make your points, such as a compelling photographic image, a simple, eye-catching chart or a few well-chosen words to support your story.
If you are going to provide information of this kind in your presentation, keep to a few key resources and make sure they can be accessed simply. One way to do this is to have a simple link from a blog or website home page where you keep all these resources online and direct people to a single URL.
Sometimes it will make sense to leave some of them in. Generally, when you can eliminate these bad slides as you craft your presentations, you will create more effective content, make your message more powerful and improve your connection with your audience.
The time to fly the nest always comes, and we have to be ready for it! That's why we bring you this presentation for your high school class, with which you can teach the young ones how to develop household chores. But the best thing is not that it is a fully customizable template with warm and soft colors, nor its modern and youthful font, but all the possibilities it offers in itself combined with its resources! Take note, you can find fonts, icons, images, graphics... what else do you need?
Sometimes it is helpful to introduce people. Beyond yourself, this can include people at the back, support services and so on. If your audience is small, it can also be useful to ask each person to introduce themselves.
Mobile cell phones can be rather annoying, to say the least, when they go off in the middle of a presentation (and it is even worse if the owners decide to take the phone call!). People often just forget to silence them, so a reminder is often a good idea.
Phones are quite personal things so doing this politely is generally a good idea. You may want to ask people to turn their phones to 'silent' or even ask them to turn them off -- phones that vibrate can still distract listeners.
Sometimes, for example where confidential or copyright material is being presented, you may want to ask people not to record or photograph the session. With cameras and recorders built into phones, this can actually be difficult to police. And policing in general can also be tricky -- stopping to tell people not to take photos is unlikely to endear you to the rest of the audience.
If you are recording the presentation it can be a good idea tell people that this is happening as they may worry about cameras. If the recording will be online at a later date, you may also want to give information about this.
People like to know how long things will take so they can plan other activities, from work to comfort breaks. If you have an agenda of activities then start and stop times are important, including coffee and lunch breaks.
You can also indicate timescales within your presentation, for example by saying 'We will take a quick five minute to overview the subject before going into detail over the next half hour in the major types of human error.'
When people are not back in their seats when you are starting (or restarting) your talk, you have a dilemma to handle -- do you start on time or give the others a few minutes? And if they come back after you have started, do say anything or give them a quick recap? One view is to assume all take responsibility for their own action and so start on time. Sometimes you do need everyone to understand so will have to wait. It can help to politely (and privately, if possible) remind people of their obligation to others.
Point out where the toilets are, with an appropriate use of language, for example talking about 'comfort breaks' or 'the loo', depending on where you are and the culture of your audience. If in doubt, avoid humor here.
Tell them what to do if there is a fire, earthquake, or other calamity which needs them to exit safely. This usually just means pointing out the fire exits. You may have to find where these are before making your speech.
Where there are services provided, such for directions, help getting taxis and so on, the services provided and the method of tapping the them may be described. This can be a physical desk, by phone or other method.
If there are handouts you can describe these and tell people where to get spares. It can be a dilemma whether to give these out at the beginning, allowing people to take coordinated notes but also reading ahead, or otherwise not giving these out until the end. In particular if you want people to pay close attention, you can tell them they will get handouts afterwards and and therefore put away writing instruments.
A simple approach is to have a slide at the beginning of your presentation with pictures of the items in question: a phone, fire, food, etc. You can then use these as prompts to remind you what items to cover.
A way to provide people with this information but without intruding into the presentation is to give them a piece of paper with all necessary information on it. This may be provided beforehand, for example at registration or in papers placed on their seats.
Housekeeping is a dry subject and you can enliven it a little with a littlehumor, for example by saying 'If there's a fire, don't follow me as I'll be panicking! It's probably a better idea to walk calmly to the nearest exits, which you will see all around the hall.
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