Presentation Skills

27.08.2012

Presentation Skills

Your brain starts working the moments you are born, and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.

Spotlights.

1. Subject matter.
2. Preparation.
3. Speaker.
4. Audience.
5. Visual aids.
6. Delivery.

Types of Presentations.

1. Lecturers.
2. Academic conferences.
3. Clubs and societies.
4. Training.
5. Project presentations.
6. Business presentations.
7. Sales.
8. Product design.
9. Speeches.
10. Client meetings.
11. Policy meetings.

Presentation is not with a slides all the time.

Think About the Last Time You Gave a Presentation.

• Why did you give the presentation?
• Where were you?
• How long did the presentation last?
• Who was the audience?
• How well did you know them?
• Do you think you made a good first impression?

How to Make a Good First Impression.

• Take a moment to gather your thoughts and ideas.
• Don't read the first few paragraphs of your presentation.
• Maintain good eye contact with the members of your audience.
• Control your voice - Voice modulator.

- Pitch and the sound.

- Use voices to emphasis, because people might have high and long voices.

• Pause is your friends use it.

- Give some time to recollect things to audience.

- It's good to you and audience.

- It'll give some time to think what you are going to talk next.

• Don't speak too fast.
• Act natural through out you presentation.

- Some people become very greater extending.

        ex: Use all hands.

• Avoid items and topics that are not directly apart or your speech.

- Stuck to your boundary.

- Summarize your main points (Recap).

Subject Matters.

The material of your presentation should be:

• Brief.
• Practice.
• Effective.
• Interesting.

How to Open a Presentation.

1. Use one of the following each based on the context its used.

• Surprising facts.
• Story.
• Questions.
• A joke.
• A quote.

    2.   Types of presenters you will be using these. How else can you gain attention?

• Demonstration.
• Picture.
• Video.

Preparation.

1. Prepare the logical structure of the talk.

• Opening (Introduction and content).
• Presentation body.
• Conclusion (Recap and objective).
• Follow up.

     2.   Be familiar with your presentation material.

• DO NOT read off a script.
• Prepare cure cards with key points.

- Become which we are taking we might forget things to avoid that.

Oral Communication.

Rehearse the talk very well.

     ex: Since English is not our first language so we need to rehearse and practice.

Speaker.

Know and manage your self for an effective presentation.

• Know your audience.
• Professional attire.
• Confidence.

- If not audience will not take you serious.

• Keep eye contact.
• Power of pause.
• Body language for gestures.

- Non verbal communication with your body.

- Never put your hands in the pocket.

• Avoid jokes.
• Keep to time.

Delivery.

• Speak clearly.
• Don't rush or deliberately slowly be natural.
• The audience will get bored with something on the screen for more than 5 minutes.
• Change you delivery depending on the importance of points.
• Use body language to emphasize points.
• Look at the audience but don't fix on an individuals.

- Look around all the audience.

• Leave time discussion.

Remember.

• Few people have natural presentation skills.
• For most of us it is something special thing.
• People need to continue it with talent.
• You never get a second chance to make a good first impression.

Learning Gain and Personal Opinion of the Lesson.

Good lecture to improve the presentation skills.