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This guide offers essential tips for delivering successful presentations through effective preparation and delivery techniques. Learn how to understand your audience's needs, organize your content logically, and practice your material for a flawless performance. Discover best practices for using visual aids, managing nervousness, and employing engaging body language. Enhance your voice projection and delivery style while effectively addressing audience questions. Whether you’re a novice or seasoned speaker, these strategies will help you captivate and connect with your audience.
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STAGES PREPARATION & DELIVERY
1. PREPARATION • Objectives • Audience • Content • Organization • Visual Information • Practice
AUDIENCE • Know the needs of your audience and match your contents to their needs. • Speak to your audience, listen to their questions, respond to their reactions, adjust and adapt • Pause. Allow yourself and your audience a little time to reflect and think • Add humor whenever appropriate and possible
CONTENT • Know the needs of your audience and match your contents to their needs. • Know your material thoroughly. Put what you have to say in a logical sequence: • Introduction (thesis statement ) • Body (supporting arguments, accurate and up-to-date information) • Conclusion (re-state thesis, summary, and logical conclusion)
ORGANIZATION • Present the material in a logical progression: • INTRODUCTION (Thesis statement) • BODY (strong supporting arguments, accurate and up-to-date information) • CONCLUSION (re-state thesis, summary, and logical conclusion).
VISUAL AIDS • Be sure all necessary equipment is set up and in good working order prior to the presentation. • If possible, have an emergency backup system readily available. • Check out the location ahead of time to ensure seating arrangements for audience, whiteboard, blackboard, lighting, location of projection screen, sound system, etc. are suitable for your presentation
PRACTICE • Check the timing • Improve weak aspects
2. DELIVERY • Nerves • Voice • Body Language • Questions
NERVES • Breath deeply to calm down your nerves • Speak with conviction • Know what your strong and weak points are. Emphasize your strong points during your presentation
VOICE • Speak slowly, enunciate clearly, and show appropriate emotion and feeling relating to your topic. • Speak to the person farthest away from you to ensure your voice is loud enough to project to the back of the room. • Vary the tone of your voice and dramatize if necessary
BODY LANGUAGE • Stand, walk or move about with appropriate hand gesture or facial expression • Maintain sincere eye contact with your audience
QUESTIONS • Answer questions in a polite and diplomatic way