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Mastering Presentation Essentials: A Guide to Engaging Audiences

Learn the essential steps to crafting powerful presentations - from defining your purpose, understanding your audience, to delivering with confidence. This guide provides tips on organizing knowledge, motivating audiences, and fostering credibility. Enhance your speaking skills and captivate your listeners with effective communication strategies.

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Mastering Presentation Essentials: A Guide to Engaging Audiences

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  1. Presentation Essentials Scott Coffel Director, Hanson CTC

  2. Has this ever happened to you? • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxPVyieptwA&feature=player_detailpage

  3. The Theory of Oomph… • As compared to Newton’s Law of Gravitation. • Vagueness is the enemy of successful communications. • Your mission: slay the dragon of vagueness with the sword of specificity.

  4. Presentations Provide a Framework For — • Organizing knowledge for the benefit of others. • Motivating audiences to ask questions. • Building credibility as a subject-matter expert. • Publicizing your ideas/work.

  5. Beginning your Preparation: 3 Essential Steps • Define your Purpose • Understand your Audience • Consider your Context

  6. Define your Purpose • Identify why you are speaking. • Determine what to include based on this. • Organize your talk to showcase this purpose. • State your purpose at the beginning of the talk, and reiterate throughout.

  7. Understand Your Audience • Who are they? • What do they know? • What do you want them to know? • What do you want them to do with the information?

  8. Consider your Context • What type of presentation is it? • Who are you talking to? • How much time do you have? • What environmental factors are involved?

  9. The Challenge with Audiences • Listening is hard work. • Too much or disorganized information hinders comprehension. • Listeners think faster than people can speak, so their minds wander while they listen (present company excepted). Solution:Before introducing new material, stop to remind your audience what they’ve learned so far.

  10. Signs of Excellence:Graphics • Use simple, clear, accurate, and relevant graphics. • Use graphics to signal the organization of the presentation. • Don’t crowd your slides….simplicity is usually better.

  11. Signs of Excellence:Delivery • Show enthusiasm for your project! • Don’t rush; maintain the pace of a typical conversation. • Build in pauses…..give your audience a chance to absorb what you are saying. • Make as much eye contact as you can. • Stop fidgeting. But consider moving around or using meaningful gestures. • Move your eyebrows!

  12. Open for Business • Visit the Hanson CTC • Hours: • 1:30 – 4:30 p.m., Monday-Friday 7:00 – 9:00 p.m., Tues. & Weds. Nights 2:00 – 4:00 p.m., Sundays • Location: • 2224 SC (in the Student Commons area) • Scheduling: Appointment sign-up sheets posted outside room 2224 SC

  13. Thank You

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