PRESENTATION SKILLS

WHAT IS POWERPOINT ?

Powerpoint is a tool to use in oral presentations that is often used as a presentation in itself.

Using it like this often leads to …

This is more what you’re looking for!

MAIN FACTOR FOR AN EFFECTIVE

PRESENTATION

CONFIDENCE

YOU GAIN CONFIDENCE BY HAVING CONFIDENCE IN YOURSELF AND WHAT YOU ARE PRESENTING

EVEN THE PERSON WITH HIGHEST IQ MIGHT NOT POSSESS THE CONFIDENCE TO SPEAK

IN FRONT OF AN AUDIENCE

oKNOW what you’re saying

oORGANIZE it

oMAKE it look nice

oSUMMARIZE

KEY TENETS FOR A PRESENTATION

KNOW YOUR SUBJECT

KNOW what you’re saying.

What does it mean to you? What are you trying to do? Teach? Sell?

You need to know because if you don’t, your audience sure won’t.

Think about it.

Now that you KNOW

ORGANIZE IT

Throw your brain on paper. It will be messy; that’s ok, you’ll work on

that later. Take your time but know

that you will end up cutting out a lot.

Your structure needs to be

Next, work on structuring the few essential key points.

One slide = one point(They’re free!)This is your golden

rule. Slides are free, you can add more but not too many because presentations should

be short.

Speeches are About Stories 

 If your presentation is going to be a longer one, explain your points through short stories. Great speakers know how to use a story to create an

emotional connection between ideas for the audience.

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Too many numbers!

What do they mean?

Using too many numbers is boring.

Instead, think about what the numbers mean

and which ones are most important to your

audience.

LESS IS MORE

Now that you’ve set a solid structure

by finding your key points

making them clear,

MAKE it look nice.

Avoid too much text, especially for oral presentations

Espacially when they contain long phrases Because they force you to read as I am talking The

result is that you learn and retain less information because your brain has to work harder

Plus, the more information you put on a slide, the smaller the font gets and the harder it gets to read for everybody, especially the people sitting at the back

And anyways, you read a lot faster than I can talk so if all of my slides look like this, I’m basically making myself useless

This is especially true for written presentations.

Remember, LESS IS MORE.

150 words per minute

250 words per minute

People read faster than you talk. If you write your script up on your slide, you really don’t

need to be there.

Match your fonts

Century Gothic

Courier New

Times New Roman

Arial

Bookman Old Style

Comic Sans MS

Bad color themes HURT!

Match your colors…

Vision trumps all other senses.

Use pictures! And lots of them!

Hear a piece of information , and three days later you’ll remember 10% of it.

Twitter

Add a picture, you’ll remember 65%.

Steve Jobs uses picturesAnd sometimes, there are no words…

SOME ADDITIONAL FACTORS

•Slow Down – Slow your speech down and add pauses for emphasis.

•Eye Contact – Match eye contact with everyone in the room.

•Don’t Plan Gestures - Planned gestures look false because they don’t match your other involuntary body cues.

PracticePractice

&Practice

SUMMARIZEEvery presentation

should end in a summary to remind the audience

what was the most important info.

KNOW what you’re saying

ORGANIZE it (structure= clear key points)

MAKE it look nice(don’t overload slides,

match fonts and color, use pictures and tools)

SUMMARIZE

SUMMARY

Lastly,