1. Presentation Skills Positive techniques for effective delivery
Your Name

2. Objectives Structure and plan a presentation
At the end of this session you will be able to:
Structure and plan a presentation
Develop clear objectives for your presentation
Develop effective visual aids
Use positive presentation style behaviours
Practice your skills of presenting

3. Qualities of an Effective Presenter
Appearance
Interesting Voice
Attitude
Knowledge
Good Eye Contact
Enthusiasm
Confident Manner
Audience

4. Planning a Presentation
Why?
Planned Content
Who?
Clear Objective
Time?
Notes
Visual Aids?
Practise

5. The Audience What are they expecting to hear?
What do they know already?
Will they have strong opinions?
Will it be clear?
Do I have support or opposition?
The Audience

6. Audience attention span – 20 minutes

7. Communicating to Convince
Set a clear
objective
Structure
according to
the objective
Put together
your notes
Create visuals
Opening Attention Grabber
Deliver the body of your presentation
Summarise &
conclude
Respond to
questions &
objections
Suggest next
steps
End with an
energetic
statement

8. Understanding Objectives
What is the main purpose?
What do I want the audience to do?
What will be my overall message?
What main points do I need to get across?

9. Opening Attention Grabbers
Facts
Rhetorical
Questions
Arresting Statements
Quotes
Jokes
Short
anecdote
or story
A statement
of your objectives

10. Why Use Visual Aids? Of the information that is remembered:
85% is through seeing
11% is through hearing
4% is through the other senses
Researchers have found that:
Only 10% of presentation is remembered
Increases to 50% if visual aids are used
70% if both visual aids and participation is used

11. The Trouble with Visual Aids
Many people simply put too much information into a visual
aid and then compound the situation by saying something
like ‘you probably can’t read this’ and then trying to talk
through an awkward description of what is on the screen.
The other problem is that people will automatically read
anything that is put in front of them. So if they spot
something on the slide that mentions something unrelated
to the presentation, e.g. ‘your flies are undone’ (admittedly
this doesn’t come up in a presentation that often) people stop
thinking about what the speaker is saying and their mind
drifts away to this new topic. To test this, we predict that
most men will check that they are properly dressed
within the next fifteen minutes.

12. Tips on using Visual Aids
Use simple words, short bullet points
Remember space = Legibility
Large typeface is easier to read
Pictures enhance the visuals

13. Presentation Style Good posture Control of mannerisms Eye contact
Voice
Energy
Controlling nerves

14. Objectives Structure and plan a presentation
At the end of this session you will be able to:
Structure and plan a presentation
Develop clear objectives for your presentation
Develop effective visual aids
Use positive presentation style behaviours
Practice your skills of presenting