Presentation Skills Making Presentations With Confidence and Power

PresenterWILLIE JOHNSON

Performance Development Consultant

Communication is your lifeblood! The key to your success !!

Everything flows from it and is nourished by it.

Educational Objective

To Provide A Clearer Understanding On:

• Fearlessly Speaking• Organizing Great Presentations

• Delivering Presentations With Pizzazz

Part 1: Fearlessly Speaking: Taming Fear & Conquering Nervousness

• This is My Room

• Be Prepared

• Know Subject

• Know Audience

• “I Can” Attitude

• Audience Rapport

Part 1: Fearlessly Speaking: “Summary”

• Preparation – Focus Attitude –Audience

Rapport

• The Fear Is Within You. Make It Work To Your Advantage!

Fearlessly Speaking

1. Be Thoroughly Prepared! (preparation)

* Know Your Subject *

If It Is Worth Doing

It Is Worth Doing Right!

2. Know Your Audience (focus)

Why are they here - Who are they - What do they know

Attitude on subject

Purpose of presentation (in their eyes)

Fearlessly Speaking

3. Develop The “I Can” AttitudeFear: often a result of an attitude problem:

the “I can’t” attitude.

4. Audience Rapport and Involvement

Public speaking: two-way conversation

Fearlessly SpeakingSummary

Preparation – Focus – Attitude & Audience Rapport need your attention to overcome the fear of public-speaking.

The Fear Is Within You.

Make It Work To Your Advantage!

Part 2: Organization ** Be Logical **

• Introduction– Tell them what you’re

going to tell them– Learning Objectives– Icebreakers

• Body – Tell them your facts/Case – Weave in stories & humor

• Close– Tell them what you told

them– Summary / Q&A

“6” Steps To A Winning Presentation

• Define Objectives• Design Close• Create Opening• Outline Body

– Add Spice– Visual Aids

• Tailor To Audience

• Practice

Part 3: Putting It All Together

Delivering With Pizzazz!!

First Things First:“Establish Rapport”

• Smile and Show Enthusiasm

• Topic and Title• Establish Credibility

• Importance of this topic to this audience

(shows respect)

Seize Attention

• It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it.

• It’s not what you do, it’s how you do it.

• It’s how you look, when you say it and do it.

Deliver A Strong Close!

• Summarize

• Ask For Agreement

• Ask For Action

• NOTE:

–Memorize your close!!

In Conclusion: Be KnowledgeableBe Yourself - Be A “Speaker”

• Speak from heart

• Prepare your best

• Entice the audience

• Acknowledge the audience

• Kinetics are essential

• Enliven speech

• Reconcile topic & purpose

• Speak, speak, speak