How to Deliver an Effective Oral Presentation

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How to Deliver an Effective Oral Presentation

• C. Antonio Jesurun, MD.
• Professor, Pediatrics
• TTU HSC-El Paso

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Preparation
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Objectives Today

• How do adults like yourself learn
• Focus on the art of communication
• Focus on what you want to communicate
• Understand how you will be evaluated

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Your Objectives

• Spend time preparing
• Communicate clearly
• Demonstrate positive attitude
• Avoid mannerisms which distract listener

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Adult Learning

• Want information to solve specific problems
• Need to integrate new ideas with what they know
• Prefer to know a few things well
• Gender differences serial vs. parallel
  processing

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Adult Learning

• Adults have their own learning objectives
• Want to control learning
• Adults are internally motivated
• Need learning to be immediately applicable
• Problem with time gap between acquisition and
  application of knowledge

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Preparation

• Know your audience
• Retention
• How many major points will listener retain?
• How much detail?
• How much should be in a handout?

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Types of People

• Controlling
• People-oriented-trusting
• Data-oriented-need structure
• Conceptual-want whole picture

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Eye Contact
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Physical--Skills

• Positive affirmation-display confidence
• Eye contact-most important
• Gestures-natural position
• Monitor movement

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Mechanical

• Seating-together
• Tools-check out ahead of time
• Laptop
• Projector
• Overheads
• Microphone
• Podium

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Audience Responds to

• Personality
• Personal Anecdotes
• Visual Aids

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Fundamental Elements of Message

• TONE OF VOICE 38
• WORDS 7
• NON-VERBAL 55

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Paralinguistic Communication

• Verbal signals
• Rate
• Volume
• Pitch
• Pauses
• Energy

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Some Ways to Open

• Introduce yourself
• Refer to groups common experience
• Give a time frame-for the next 50 minutes
• Give a startling statistic or quote a famous
  person

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Some Ways to Open

• Ask a rhetorical question
• Show your agenda
• Give learning objectives
• By the end of this lecture you will be able to
• Understand
• Recognize.
• Identify..

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Visual Aids

• The speaker should keep the audiences
  attention-not the slide
• Use text only as a guidepost
• Too much data make it harder to read
• Spell check!

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The Listener

• What is in this for me?
• What is the point of this part?
• Why am I hearing this from you?
• Do I like this person?
• Is this person reliable?

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Points to Remember

• Take topic seriously-not yourself
• Controlled nervousness
• OK to do something physical early to control
  nervousness
• Concentrate on material not yourself

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Tips for Visual Aids

• Dark background
• Use non-Serif fonts
• Arial-good
• Three to four bullets per slide
• Watch out for animation schemes
• Have a back-up

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Points to Remember

• Maintain eye contact
• Do not judge listeners reaction by external
  signs
• Practice three times

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Aim Presentation at Average Listener-not the
Expert
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Presenting

• Keep toes pointed toward audience
• Talk to the audience, not to the slide
• Do not reveal slide until appropriate
• Explain X and Y axis on charts

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Parts of Presentation

• Introduction
• Introduce yourself-establish rapport
• Explain the purpose-establish logic
• What you are going to do
• Overview-establish expectations
• How you are going to do it.

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Parts of Presentation

• Body
• Problem/solution
• Pros/cons
• Definition/examples
• Forest or the trees

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Conclusion

• Review
• Plan of action
• Closing remarks

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Your Evaluation

• Organization-appropriate transitions
• Content-clearly stated
• Delivery-appropriate speech
• Visual Aids-used with finesse
• Effectiveness-convincing