1. Making a good presentation is more than just good delivery
Making a good presentation is more than just good delivery. It also involves developing a strategy that fits your audience and purpose, having good content, and organizing material effectively. The choices you make in each of these areas are affected by your purposes, the audience, and the situation.

2. Making Oral Presentations
To learn how to
Turn material from a paper document into a presentation.
Plan and deliver oral presentations.
Develop a good speaking voice.
Give group presentations.

3. Making Oral Presentations
Start by answering these questions:
What decisions do I need to make as I plan a presentation?
How should I organize a presentation?
How can I create a strong opener and close?

4. Making Oral Presentations
Start by answering these questions:
What are the keys to delivering an effective presentation?
How should I handle questions from the audience?
What are the guidelines for group presentations?

5. Purposes of Oral Presentations
Informative Presentations
Inform or teach the audience.
Persuasive Presentations
Motivate the audience to act.
Goodwill Presentations
Entertain and validate the audience.
Oral presentations have the same three basic purposes as written documents: to inform, to persuade, and to build goodwill.

6. To Plan a Presentation, Choose
Your main point.
The kind of presentation.
Monologue
Guided
Sales
Ways to involve the audience.
Good presentations are well planned. In general, an oral presentation needs to be simpler than a written message to the same audience. Therefore, identify the one idea you want the audience to take home. Then, choose the type of presentation that will work best for your audience. Adapt your ideas to your audience. In particular, measure the message you’d like against where your audience is now.

7. To Create and Show Visuals
Make one main point per visual.
Give each visual a title.
Limit information to 35 words or less.
Don’t put your visual up until you’re ready to talk about it.
Visuals can give your presentation a professional image. Where possible, use these guidelines to help in creating the best visuals for your presentation. Remember, though, that visuals work only if the technology they depend on works. When possible, arrive early to test the equipment before you present.

8. A narration or anecdote. A question. A quotation.
Strong Openers May Use
A startling statement.
A narration or anecdote.
A question.
A quotation.
An overview of the main points immediately after the opener.
As with essays, strong openers can get the audience immediately involved with your presentation. Startling statements work best when they are surprising but relevant to the audience. A narration or anecdote can build emotion by putting “a human face” on a topic. Better anecdotes are ones that happened to you while the best are parables that contain the point of your talk. Like a startling statement, a question should be relevant to the audience, and quotations should be accurate, meaningful, and fresh—avoid overused quotes. An overview of the presentation can follow the opener.

9. Restate your main point. Refer to your opener.
Strong Closes May
Restate your main point.
Refer to your opener.
End with a vivid, positive picture.
Tell the audience exactly what to do to solve the problem you’ve discussed.
Like a strong opener, a strong close can make your presentation focused and memorable. Use an oral, not written, style when writing both the opener and the close.

10. Patterns of Organization
Chronological
Problem-Causes-Solution
Excluding Alternatives
Pro-Con
1-2-3
In chronological organization, start with the past, move to the present, and end by looking ahead. The problem-causes-solution pattern explains the symptoms of the problem, identifies its causes, and suggests a solution. When excluding alternatives, explain the symptoms of the problem and the obvious solutions first. Then show why they won’t solve the problem, ending by discussing a solution that will work. In pro-con organization, give all of the reasons in favor of something and then those against it. In 1-2-3, discuss three aspects of a topic.

11. To Deliver an Effective Presentation
Transform fear.
Use eye contact.
Stand and gesture effectively.
Use notes and visuals.
Anticipate questions.
Turn your fear into energy, look at the audience, and use natural gestures.