Presenting and speaking

PRESENTING AND SPEAKING

Improving your delivery

SPEAKING

• General tips to improve speech• Why?

- Clear delivery- Improved confidence- Increased interest from audience

PREPARATION • Know your subject and audience• Keep it short (ish)• Humour is ok

SPEAKING

• Practice• Practice• Practice

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

• Look smart• Don’t panic• Pretend you’re confident

SPEAKING

DURING THE SPEECH• Know your room• Eye contact• Sloooooooooow doooooooooown!• If you mess up, don’t worry 😄

SPEAKING

QUESTIONS?

SPEAKING

PRESENTING• General tips for

slideshows• Why?

- Same as speaking- How to get most from

slides- How to avoid

insulting the audience

PREPARATION PRESENTING

Used in films to lay-out story

Storyboard Quick scribbles of what

you want to say

Is your order sensible?

PREPARATION PRESENTING

(People will tend to forget these)

PREPARATION PRESENTING

Trying your own theme? Choose:Fonts

FONTSFontsFontsAnd…

PREPARATION PRESENTING

NOW…Which is more memorable…

This section on presentations

OR the previous section on speaking?

PREPARATION PRESENTING

Here’s a slide from earlier…

It’s not bad, but it’s a bit dull

How can we jazz it up withoutmaking it look ugly?

DURING THE SPEECH• Know your room

SPEAKING

• Eye contact• Sloooooooooow doooooooooown!• If you mess up, don’t worry 😄

DURING THE SPEECHSPEAKING

Eye contact

Sloooooooooow doooooooooown!

If you mess up, don’t worry!

Know your room

DURING THE SPEECHSPEAKING

Eye contact

Sloooooooooow doooooooooown!

If you mess up, don’t worry!

Know your room

PREPARATIONPRESENTING

So far…

Storyboard Use a clean theme

Be picky about pictures Don’t say too much

Full page images give impact

Make text stand out more

DELIVERYPRESENTING

WHATISTHE

GOLDENRule?

DON’T

READ OUT THE

SLIDES

DELIVERYPRESENTING

Point of interest for audience

QUESTIONS?

PRESENTING

THE OBLIGATORY SUMMARY SLIDE• Target your talk

• Know your stuff• Steady delivery• Don’t use busy slides• Let images help not

distract• Don’t abuse animations• Keep slides brief (not

like this)• DON’T READ THE

SLIDES