Presentation
Presentation
•Your audience will feel your confidence, and will in turn feel
confident
• With control, you will be 'in charge' and your audience will
listen positively to your message
PRESENTATION PROCESS
INFORM
TRAIN
PERSUADE
SELL
OBJECTIVE
Do I need to:
Inform ? Persuade? train ? Or sell?
Audience
WHO AM I MAKING THIS PRESENTATION TO?
•Formal or informal
•Lots of visual aids or only a few
•Whether to include anecdotes and humor
A PRESENTATION SPEECH IS LIKE A LOVE AFFAIR
2. Tell ‘em
•Build rapport
• Invite questions
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BODY LANGUAGE
Your clothes
your walk
your glasses
your haircut
your expression
Introducing
•I'd like to start by...
the subject
•Let's begin by...
•First of all, I'll...
•Starting with...
•I'll begin by...
Finishing one
•Well, I've told you about...
subject
•That's all I have to say about...
•We've looked at...
•So much for...
Starting another point •Now we'll move on to...
•Let me turn now to...
•Next...
•Turning to...
•I'd like now to discuss...
•Let's look now at...
•In conclusion,...
•Right, let's sum up, shall we?
•I'd like now to recap...
•Let's summarize briefly what we've looked at...
•Finally, let me remind you of some of the
issues we've covered...
•If I can just sum up the main points...
QUESTIONS
Improves understanding
TIPS FOR SUCCESSFUL VISUAL AID
•Try to limit visuals to about 40 words.
• Avoid clutter. Use large, bold fonts.
• Feel free to use italics, boldfaces and colors
to embellish points
•Your language should be punchy and concise
with "you" appeal (!)
•Condense paragraphs into sentences, sentences into
phrases, and phrases into key words
•Use pictures or designs to quickly and colorfully
convey an idea
•Charts and graphs are useful to show relationships
among variables at a glance
•Action words such as "grow," "decline" and "trend"
effectively show change over time.
•Whether you use a line, bar, pie, organizational,
flow or table chart, remember to focus on the message,
not the numbers. ‘Sales results show significant rises’
will be much more effective than ‘Sales 2000’
•The average time a slide should be on screen is
40 to 90 seconds
•The average attention time span of an audience
can be as low as 8 minutes.
•Have hard copies of your presentation available as
handouts
• Use clip art judiciously
•Good transitions help tie your presentation together
and make it flow smoothly from one idea to the next
PRESENTATION CHECKLIST
•· Practice where you will be presenting
•· Devise your presentation yourself and make it
memorable
· Rehearse until it becomes second nature and
you can then concentrate on your audience
· Run the presentation through your head repeatedly
· Say it aloud whenever you find yourself alone
· See what you look like doing it
• Practice in front of other people and seek
honest feedback
THANK YOU