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Mastering Effective Presentations: Key Strategies for Success and Common Pitfalls

Delivering an effective presentation requires thorough planning, preparation, practice, and performance management. Common pitfalls like little eye contact, mumbling, reliance on notes, and poor visual aids can derail your presentation. To engage your audience, always plan your content, prepare visually appealing slides, rehearse extensively for clarity, and manage your delivery confidently. Remember the "5 Ps" rule: Proper Practice Prevents Poor Performance. With these strategies, you can transform your presentations from mediocre to memorable. Good luck!

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Mastering Effective Presentations: Key Strategies for Success and Common Pitfalls

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  1. Study Skills Final Presentation Effective Presentation

  2. What makes a presentation poor? • what makes a presentation poor? • Little/no eye contact • Mumbling • Reading from a paper • Little/no structure • Too much information • Bad visual aids • Little/no eye contact • Little/no eye contact • Mumbling • Reading from a paper • Little/no structure • Too much information • Bad visual aids

  3. How to conduct an effective presentation • Planning • Preparation • Practice • Performance • Questions

  4. Planning • Why are you talking to them? • Who are you talking to? • How long have you got? • What are the points you are going to cover?

  5. Preparation • Outline and sketch slides • Prepare slides • Proof read • Prepare notes • brief keywords and phrases, except maybe first couple of paragraphs

  6. Preparation (slides) • Use Images & Graphics • Minimise text & numbers • Light text on dark background • Avoid distracting backgrounds • Use large fonts • Progressive disclosure

  7. Practice • Rehearse • Get feedback, and use it. • Speak loudly & clearly • Use short simple sentences • Avoid jargon & abbrev. • Vary pitch, tone, volume, speed and pauses

  8. Performance • Avoid distracting mannerisms • Relax, be enthusiastic • Make eye contact • Keep an eye on the time remaining

  9. Performance (cont’d) • Explain figures, and • point to important aspects • Give a clear and concise summary, • then stop. • Don’t go overtime. Ever.

  10. Questions • Anticipate likely questions and prepare answers • Stall while thinking about the answer

  11. Remember 5 Ps rule! Proper Practice Prevents Poor Performance.

  12. Good Luck :)

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