Presentation Skills Workshop

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Presentation Skills

• Presentation Skills Workshop

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Mountain Barrier
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Hill Barrier
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Bridge the barrier with your voice, eye contact
and visual aids
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Rundown of the workshop

1. Introduction qualities of a good speaker
2. The structure of a formal speech
3. Explain the verbal and non-verbal cues which can
   help you present your ideas clearly to the
   audience
4. Practice Tasks Each student in the group has to
   given a 5-minute impromptu speech

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Types of speeches

• What sort of presentations do you need to do?
• Present your projects/assignments
• Job Interview impromptu presentations group
  discussion skills
• Seminars and conferences
• Oral defense of your thesis

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Basic rules in presentation

• The 3 Vs Vocal (voice), Visual and verbal
  (language, i.e. content)
• Maintain good eye contact, use some gestures,
  have some facial expressions (but dont overdo
  it), proper dress code, eliminate the ums
  ahs, have voice vocal variety (avoid using a
  monotone)
• Take a deep breath to relax yourself

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Attention-grabber

• 8 ways to draw the attention of the audience
• Clap hands
• Eye movement
• Use visual aids
• Ask a question
• Let the audience do a task
• Use gimmicks (unusual act)
• Silence
• Vary your tone or pitch

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Video

• Watch the video Speak up with Confidence by
  Jack Valenti
• Ways to speak forcefully
• He has given expert advice on using your voice,
  eyes and gestures to get the ideas across to the
  audience.

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Practicespeaking

• Practice
• Form groups of 5
• Each group picks a topic
• Discuss for 5 minutes
• The group gives a short impromptu presentation
  Other groups comment on their performance and
  ask questions (1-2 minutes)

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Apply the skills from the video to your
presentation

• Good performance
• Maintain good eye contact with the audience
• Speak clearly
• Pause when you come across an important point
• Link up the points systematically
• Have an introduction, a body a conclusion
• Use grammatical language with the right tone

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Be prepared

• Prepare your speech
• Find a topic
• Do research to gather data
• Put the information and data into a speech format
• Use a 3-tier structure Introduction, body and
  conclusion recommendation
• Q A session

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Be Prepared To Speak

• When preparing the speech, you should have your
  audience in mind.
• Find out the background of the audience
• What types of work do your listeners do?
• The purpose of the presentation
• Common interests among the members
• Other characteristics

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Speech preparation

• Write out the first draft
• Rehearse it record your speech and then listen
  to it
• A good speech should target at a specific
  audience and it should have a goal.

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The venue

• 2. KNOW THE OCCASION
• Is the occasion solemn, formal, or casual?
• Does the audience hope to be informed,
  entertained, or inspired? Or do they hope for
  some combination of the three?
• How long does the program chairman expect the
  speech to be?

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Physical environment

• 3. KNOW YOUR SPEAKING ENVIRONMENT
• The size of the room
• Furniture such as table, lectern
• Audio-visual equipment computer for powerpoint
  presentation, screen, overhead projector,
  whiteboard etc.

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The Topic

• 4. PIN DOWN YOUR TOPIC
• What information do you have that would give
  most benefits to the group members?
• What does the group expect to hear from you?
• Is your purpose to inform, persuade, entertain,
  or inspire? Or is it a combination of all the
  above?

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Attractyouraudience

• 5. Prepare an interesting introduction to capture
  attention
• Have you included stories, examples, anecdotes,
  illustrations, and factual evidence?
• Have you included illustrations from your
  personal experience?

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Check the sources of the information

• 6. RESEARCH
• Have you assembled the necessary facts and
  statistics to make your case convincing?
• Are all your facts and statistics accurate and
  current?

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Write the draft

• Write the rough draft
• Introduction
• Can your introduction grab your audiences
  attention?
• Does your introduction include a clear statement
  of your point of view?
• Is the language clear and vivid enough to assure
  your audience that the speech is easy to follow?

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Practice

• 8. Keep the note cards/ Rehearse
• Make your notes easy to read, with big lettering
  and plenty of open space
• 9. Practice
• Practice varying your eye contact among four or
  five locations
• Exaggerate variations in the pitch, rate, and
  volume of your voice during the practice session.

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Control your Nervousness

• 10. Be calm and be in control
• Find out from the audiences responses whether
  they can follow your presentation through asking
  a few questions
• The Q A session

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Discussion

• The discussion session should concentrate on
  developing a few points clearly and precisely
• Use anecdotes, stories, humorous observations, or
  illustrations to help your audience visualize the
  meaning of the facts and statistics.

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Conclusion

• Cue your audience that your conclusion is
  forthcoming
• State clearly and explicitly exactly what
  actions you would like the listeners to take.

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Resources on the Internet

• Effective Presentations (KU Medical Centre)
• http//www.kumc.edu/SAH/OTEd/jradel/effective.html
  
• Give excellent advice for those who need to
  present at conferences
• There are sections on developing effective
  presentations, designing visual aids and creating
  effective poster presentations
• There is a useful list of links

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Resources on the Internet

• Presentation Helper
• http//www.presentationmagazine.com/
• invaluable advice on different types of oral
  presentations
• information on job interview presentations
• a list of ideas for topics for persuasive speeches

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Resources on the Internet

• Interactive Lesson on Overcoming the Fear of
  Speaking to Groups
• http//www.school-for-champions.com/speaking/fearw
  bt.htm5
• MC questions with immediate feedback to make you
  think about presentations