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Mastering Communication Skills for Effective Oral Presentations

This presentation delves into the essential skills required for delivering impactful oral presentations. Based on MIT's Communication Skills Lectures, it covers strategies for effective presentation planning, including how to structure content, choose the right visual aids, and deliver with confidence. Key points include initiating with an engaging introduction, organizing the body of the presentation, and effectively concluding with a summary. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of nonverbal cues, handling Q&A sessions with poise, and adjusting technical language for audience understanding.

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Mastering Communication Skills for Effective Oral Presentations

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  1. Introduction to Software Engineering Lecture 41 – Communication Skills

  2. Acknowledgements This presentation is based largely on MIT Communication Skills Lectures.

  3. Lecture Outline • Giving Oral Presentation • Formulate a strategy • Choose an appropriate structure • Create visual aids to enhance your presentation • Strive for effective and natural delivery • Handle Q & A effectively

  4. Giving Oral Presentation • Formulate a strategy • Choose an appropriate structure • Create visual aids to enhance your presentation • Strive for effective and natural delivery • Handle Q & A effectively

  5. Analyzing the Situation

  6. Communication Strategy • Content • How much detail on a method? • How much detail on findings? • Style • Level of technical language? • Appeal to general audience? • Structure

  7. Giving Oral Presentation • Formulate a strategy • Choose an appropriate structure • Create visual aids to enhance your presentation • Strive for effective and natural delivery • Handle Q & A effectively

  8. Cognitive Processing Constraints

  9. Structure Approaches

  10. Deciding on a Structure

  11. Planning segments of presentations • Introduction • Arouse interest and show relevance to audience • Establish credibility • State main message (if direct) or preview agenda. • Body • Limit to 5 major sections or points • Adjust detail to audience background and needs • Clarify process through agenda • Conclusion • Make or recap main points

  12. Giving Oral Presentation • Formulate a strategy • Choose an appropriate structure • Create visual aids to enhance your presentation • Strive for effective and natural delivery • Handle Q & A effectively

  13. Creating Visual Aids: Functions • Clarify structure • Emphasize important ideas • Illustrate relationships or objects visually • Enhance and maintain interest

  14. Creating appropriate medium for visual aids • For example, Transparencies • Advantages • Easy and inexpensive • Flexible • Low tech and relatively dependable Remember: You are the presentation – the visuals are not.

  15. Giving Oral Presentation • Formulate a strategy • Choose an appropriate structure • Create visual aids to enhance your presentation • Strive for effective and natural delivery • Handle Q & A effectively

  16. Delivering your presentation • Verbal – sound natural & conversational • Tone, pitch, pace • Fluency • Nonverbal – Project confidence & enthusiasm • Confidence • Movement, use of space • Gestures • Eye contacts and facial expressions.

  17. Giving Oral Presentation • Formulate a strategy • Choose an appropriate structure • Create visual aids to enhance your presentation • Strive for effective and natural delivery • Handle Q & A effectively

  18. Answering Questions • Plan for questions & practice answers • Answer effectively • Listen carefully to whole question • Buy time to think • Be honest about what you don’t know. • Avoid dialogues with one person • Handle inappropriate questions quickly and tactfully • End Q & A by restating your point.

  19. Key Points • Points to remember • Formulate a strategy • Choose an appropriate structure • Create visual aids to enhance your presentation • Strive for effective and natural delivery • Handle Q & A effectively

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