Making Effective Presentations
Learn how to captivate your audience with skillful delivery, effective strategy, interesting content, and powerful visuals. Prepare to present confidently, engage with your audience, and deliver impactful presentations.
Making Effective Presentations
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Good presenters engage their audiences with • Skillful delivery • Effective strategy • Interesting, well-organized content • Effective visuals • Preparation
Sustained eye contact • Make 3-5 seconds contact • Do not read notes or the screen • Face the audience, not the screen
Skillful Delivery • Pleasant facial expression – smile! • Effective gestures to emphasize meaning • Preparation and good timing
Strong voice • Volume • Speak to the back of the room • Variation • Vary your pitch and volume • Pauses • Pause to emphasize
Skillful delivery Professional Q&A • Ask for questions • Be receptive to questions • Wait for questions • Group presentations – decide as a team who will answer the question
Skillful delivery Professional Q&A • Repeat questions to • Confirm you understand • Make sure everyone hears the question • Give yourself time to formulate an answer • If you don’t know the answer to a question, say so!
Effective Strategy • Audience • Who is my audience or audiences? • What do they already know? • What is their attitude? • What are their needs, interests, concerns?
Effective Strategy • Objectives • What do I want to achieve? • What do I want the audience to know, do, or feel?
Audience strategy • Who is my audience? • What do they already know?
Audience strategy • How interested are they? • Their needs, interests, concerns
Objectives strategy I want the audience to • Understand elements of a successful presentation • Know & practice techniques for improvement • Feel they can improve their skills • Think that the workshop is useful • Give better presentations
Interesting, well-organized content • Introduction • Hook • PIP – purpose, importance, preview • Body • For receptive audience • Main point/recommendation, analysis, benefits • For unreceptive audience • Analysis, benefits, main point/recommendation
Interesting, well-organized content • Ending • Recommendation & benefits • Next steps for action • Summary (for longer presentations) • Ineffective • “That’s all.” • “That’s all I have time for.”
Effective Slides • Why use visuals? • Emphasize key points for audience & presenter • Present information clearly, concisely, vividly • Types of visuals • Text, chart, concept
Effective slides • Use slides to structure your presentation • Use an agenda slide • Use slide titles that create logical connections between the agenda slide & subsequent slides
Effective slides • Use design principles • Create slides that focus attention on the message • Avoid elements that distract from your message
Effective slides • Slides are ineffective when they • Are difficult to read • Do not have a clear message • Present too much information • Use a distracting design or animation • Use too many colors
Preparation – rehearse, rehearse, rehearse • Time your presentation – early • Get comfortable with content • Do not memorize • Practice • good delivery skills • with slides • with teammates for group presentation • in room where you will present
Preparation – managing nervousness • Prepare, prepare, prepare • Prepare your introduction the most so you are entirely comfortable with it • Stretch & take deep breaths to relax • Find friendly faces in the audience • Look your best • Anticipate difficult questions & be ready to answer them
Managing nervousness • Your nervousness is not usually noticeable to your audience • Your audience will not notice if you forget to say something—pause and continue
Summary • Skillful delivery • Effective strategy • Interesting, well-organized content • Effective visuals • Preparation
