1. Delivering Your Presentation
HCOM-100
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2. Delivering Your Presentation PREVIEW
Methods of Speech Delivery
Effective Verbal Delivery
Effective Nonverbal Delivery
Effective Presentation Aids
Final Tips for Rehearsing and Delivering your presentation

3. Methods of Speech Delivery
Manuscript Speaking
Rarely done well enough to be interesting
Guidelines
Type your manuscript in short, easy-to-scan phrases
Use appropriate nonverbal messages
Do not read the speech too quickly
Vary the rhythm, inflections, and pace of your delivery
Use gestures and movement to add nonverbal interest

4. Methods of Speech Delivery
Memorized Speaking
Guidelines
Do not deliver your memorized speech too rapidly
Avoid patterns of vocal inflection that make the presentation sound recited
Use gestures and movement to add interest and emphasis to your message

5. Methods of Speech Delivery
Impromptu Speaking
“off the cuff”
Guidelines
Consider your audience
Be brief
Organize
Draw upon your personal experience and knowledge
Use gestures and movement that arise naturally from what you are saying
Be aware of the potential impact of your communication

6. Methods of Speech Delivery
Extemporaneous Speaking
Method of delivery preferred by most audiences
Guidelines
Use a full-content preparation outline when you begin to rehearse your presentation
Prepare an abbreviated delivery outline and speaking notes
Do not try to memorize your message word for word
As you deliver your presentation, adapt it to your audience

7. Methods of Speech Delivery
RECAP Methods of Delivery
Manuscript Reading a speech from written text
Memorized Giving a speech word for word from memory
without using notes
Impromptu Delivering a presentation without advance
preparation
Extemporaneous Speaking from a written or memorized outline
without having memorized the exact wording of
the presentation

8. Effective Verbal Delivery
Using words well
Crafting memorable word structure

9. Using Words Well Specific, Concrete Words Unbiased Words Vivid Words
Refers to an object or action in the most specific way possible
Unbiased Words
Do not offend any sexual, racial, cultural, or religious group
Vivid Words
Add color and interest to your language
Simple Words
Immediately understandable
Correct Words
Grammatical and usage errors communicate a lack of preparation

10. Crafting Memorable Word Structures
Figurative Language
Metaphors (implied comparisons)
Similes (over comparisons)
Personification (attribution of human qualities to non-human things or ideas)

11. Crafting Memorable Word Structures
Drama
Omission (strip a phrase or sentence of nonessential words that the audience expects)
Inversion (invert the usual subject-verb-object sentence pattern)
Suspension (saving a key word or phrase for the end of a sentence)

12. Crafting Memorable Word Structures
Cadence
Parallelism (two or more clauses have the same grammatical pattern)
Antithesis (the two structures contrast)
Repetition (repeat key word or phrase)
Alliteration (repetition of an initial consonant sound several times in a phrase, clause, or sentence)

13. Effective Nonverbal Delivery
Eye contact
Physical delivery
Gestures
Movement
Posture
Facial expression

14. Effective Nonverbal Delivery
Vocal Delivery
Volume
Pitch
Rate
Articulation
Appearance

15. Effective Nonverbal Delivery
RECAP Characteristics of Nonverbal Delivery
Gestures should be relaxed, definite, varied, and appropriate.
Movement should be purposeful
Posture should feel natural and be appropriate to your topic, audience, and occasion
Eye Contact should be established before you say anything and sustained throughout your presentation
Facial Expression should be alert, friendly, and appropriate
Volume should be loud enough to be heard and varied
Pitch should be varied to sustain audience interest
Rate should be neither too fast or too slow
Articulation should be clear and distinct
Appearance should conform to what the audience expects

16. Effective Presentation Aids
The term presentation aid refers to any object that your audience can look at to help them understand your ideas.
Advantages
Gain and maintain audience attention
Communicate your organization of ideas
Illustrate sequences of events or procedures
Help your audience understand and remember your message

17. Types of Presentation Aids
Objects
Models
People
Drawings
Photographs
Maps
Graphs
Bar
Pie
line

18. Types of Presentation Aids
Charts
Video Tapes
CD-ROMS and DVDs
Audio Tapes and Audio CDs

19. Computer-Generated Presentation Aids
Create and present professional-looking visual aids inexpensively and easily
PowerPoint
Adapt to audiences that expect sophisticated technical support

20. Guidelines for Preparing Presentation Aids
Select the right presentation aids.
Adapt to your audience
Be aware of your specific purpose
Consider your own skill and experience
Take into account the room in which you will speak
Make your presentation aids easy to see
Keep your presentation aids simple
Polish your presentation aids

21. Guidelines for Using Presentation Aids
Rehearse with your presentation aids
Maintain eye contact with your audience, not your presentation aids
Explain your presentation aids
Time your presentation aids to coincide with your discussion of them
Do not pass objects, or other small items among your audience
Use handouts effectively
Use small children and animals with caution
Use technology thoughtfully

22. Final Tips for Delivering Your Presentation
Finish your full-content outline several days before you must deliver the presentation
Practice, Practice, Practice
Practice good delivery skills while rehearsing
If possible, practice your presentation for someone else
Tape record or videotape your presentation

23. Final Tips for Delivering Your Presentation (Cont.)
Re-create the speaking situation in your final rehearsals
Get plenty of rest the night before you speak
Arrive early
Review and apply the suggestions in Chapter 11 for becoming a more confident speaker.
After you have delivered your presentation, seek feedback from members of your audience.

24. What questions do you have?
Homework:
Reading?
Turn in assignments?
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