Clara McCabe

Presentation Skills

Objectives

• Describe the qualities of an effective presenter• Plan a presentation • Develop learning objectives for your presentation• Use effective visual aids• Adopt several methods and tools for presenting• Use positive presentation style behaviours

At the end of this session you will be able to:

Qualities of an Effective Presenter

Appearance

Attitude

Good Eye Contact

Confident Manner

Interesting Voice

Knowledge

Enthusiasm

Audience

Planning a Presentation

• Why are you speaking?• Who will be in the audience?• How long do you have to speak?• Clear objective• Plan the content: introduction, middle,

summary• Prepare visual aids• Prepare briefing notes• Rehearse

The Audience

• What are they expecting to hear?

• What do they know already?

• Will they have strong opinions?

• Will it be clear why the subject should matter to them?

• Do I have support or opposition from particular people?

Audience attention span – 20 minutes

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Interest

Communicating to Convince

Set a clear objective

Structure according to the objective

Put together your notes

Create visuals

Deliver the body of your presentation

Summarise &conclude

Respond toquestions & objections

Suggest next steps

End with an energetic statement

Opening Attention Grabber

Understanding Objectives

• What is the main purpose?

• What do I want the audience to do as a result?

• What will be my overall message?

• What are the main points I need to get across?

Opening Attention Grabbers

Jokes

Arresting Statements

Facts

Quotes

RhetoricalQuestions

Short anecdote or storyA statement

of your objectives

Why Use Visual Aids?

Of the information that is remembered:

• 85% is through seeing• 11% is through hearing• 4% is through the other senses

Researchers have found that:

• Only 10% of presentation is remembered• Increases to 50% if visual aids are used • 70% if both visual aids and participation is used

The Trouble with Visual Aids

Many people simply put too much information into a visualaid and then compound the situation by saying something

like ‘you probably can’t read this’ and then trying to talk through an awkward description of what is on the screen. The other problem is that people will automatically read

anything that is put in front of them. So if they spotsomething on the slide that mentions something unrelatedto the presentation, e.g. ‘your flies are undone’ (admittedly

this doesn’t come up in a presentation that often) people stop thinking about what the speaker is saying and their mind drifts away to this new topic. To test this, we predict that

most men will check that they are properly dressed within the next fifteen minutes.

Tips on using Visual Aids

• Use simple words, short bullet points

• Remember space = Legibility

• Large typeface is easier to read

• Pictures enhance the visuals

Presentation Style

• Good posture - open hand and arm movements

• Control of distracting mannerisms

• Eye contact with all the audience

• Voice - good speed, pace, tone, pitch and varied modulation

• Energy and enthusiasm

• Controlling nerves

Summary

• 8 qualities of an effective presenter• How to plan a presentation

• Take your audience into consideration• Understand objectives

• Attention grabbers!• Tips on visual aids

• Your presentation style