1. Presentation Skills Training
Laura Thomas

2. Timetable 10.00 Introduction 10.15 – 12.30 Presentation Toolkit:
Audience
Message
Visuals
Body Language
Practicalities
12.30 – 13.15
Lunch
13.15 – 16.00
Practice, practice, practice!

3. Introduction

5. Audience

6. Audience: research
You have been asked by your line manager to report back on a project you have been working on for the last month at a special staff meeting. Before you start writing your talk, what do you need to know?

7. Audience: research What size is the audience?
Who are they and what do they know about your topic?

8. Audience: research
Why am I talking to them? What do I want to achieve?
What does the audience think about my topic?
What does the audience want? Why are they coming to hear me speak?

9. Audience: interaction
Ask questions
Polls

10. Audience: interaction
Ask questions
Polls
Demonstrations
Move around
Role play
Group work
Discussion

12. Audience: managing behaviour
In your group take turns reading out a news article. Each time, the audience should act disinterested by not making eye contact, playing with phones and talking to each other. How did it feel talking to that audience?

13. Audience: managing behaviour
What if:
I can’t get any information from the organiser?
people are talking during my presentation?
someone gets up and leaves?
a phone goes off?
someone comes in and interrupts?
an audience member keeps interrupting with hostile questions?

14. Audience: managing behaviour

15. Message: sources

16. Message: structure Introduction Body Chronological By subject
Geographical
Problem and solution
Compare and contrast

17. Message: structure
Introduction
Body
Conclusion

18. Message: signposting Introduction Welcome
Explanation of structure (now)
Body
History of spaceflight
Physics of spaceflight
Future of spaceflight
Conclusion
Summing up
Careers guidance

19. Message: language In addition In other words On the other hand
However
But
Also
Instead
Therefore
Because
Lastly
Yet
Likewise
Nevertheless
In addition
In other words
On the other hand
On the contrary
My next point is

20. Message: language Nissan sold two million cars last year.
Two million cars were sold by Nissan last year.

21. Message: delivery

22. Message: delivery
Speed
Intonation
Volume

23. Visuals

24. Visuals: slides

25. Visuals: slides Animations Diagrams and charts Tables
Photographs and illustrations
Film clips

26. Visuals: props

27. Body language

28. Body language
Posture
Eye contact
Facial expressions
Gestures

32. Body language

33. Practicalities: room facilities

34. Practicalities: dealing with nerves

35. Practicalities: dealing with nerves