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Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Effective Presentation Skills

Do you want to present your ideas with conviction, control and pose? Do you want to overcome those 'presentation anxieties' and become comfortable and relaxed with your own speaking style? Do you want to expertly handle a challenging audience?

To mastery that materials you should learn how to deliver a presentation that's clear, informative, memorable, motivating and convincing. To mastery on delivering presentation you should know about these:
  • Analyzing your audience, you must know who are attend your presentation
  • You should be able to organize your thoughts and write a clearly focused outline that wastes no words or time
  • You must developing your writing and organizing techniques clearly
  • You should use visual aids
  • Speak in public clearly and confidently in both prepared and impromptu speaking situations
  • You should be able to manage presentation stress
  • You must speak and think with greater clarity and purpose stressing key ideas
  • Face an audience with confidence and control and make the most of your own natural speaking
  • Use your words and your body to convince and persuade the audience.
Beside you can control the situation on the presentation, you should learn on how the presentation material prepared and arrange like the below order:

1. Introduction / Background
2. The 7 Steps in Effective Presentation
3. Pre-Design
  • Initial planning, Situational analysis
  • Goal and Message Definition
  • Audience analysis
  • Planning the presentation Approach.
4. Design
  • Techniques to expedite the design process
  • The standard presentation formula
  • Organizations tools
  • Titles -A full house may depend on them.
5. Build the Content
  • Explanation -descs, definitions and ground rules
  • Supporting material -the meat of the presentation
  • Visual aids Limited multimedia and multi-image presentations.
6. Make Arrangements
  • Six Axioms
  • Arranging for facilities, equipment and incidentals.
7. Test and Evaluate
  • Planning a productive test phase
  • Conducting a productive dry run
  • Have some criteria for evaluating presentations.
8. Deliver: Show Time!
  • Overview - some basic points
  • Achieving positive nonverbal messages
  • Language - the verbal channel
  • Transmission of language - the voice.
9. Follow-up:
  • What kind of follow-up
  • Assessment and feedback.
10. Special Presentation Situation
  • The team presentation
  • International presentation
  • Speaking from a manuscript
  • The presenter as emcee.
11. Closing (Summary and Conclusion)

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