Powerful presentation components and skills

Powerful presentation components and skills

1. Powerful
Presentation
Components and
Skills
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICES (CS-341)
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2. Powerful
Presentationskills
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3. Definition
•A presentation is a means of
communication which can be adapted to
various speaking situations, such as
talking to a group, addressing a meeting
or briefing ateam.
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4. Presentationskills
•Following are the steps include in
preparing effectivepresentation:
Plan
Prepare
Practice
Present
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5. Planning
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6. Planning
•Planning usually include following
questions:
•Who is youraudience?
•Why are theythere?
•What is yourgoal?
•How long will itbe?
•Where will it takeplace?
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7. Prepare
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8. Prepare
•Following points must keep in mind
while preparing:
Structure
Prompt
Visualaids
Voice
Appearance
Style
Questions
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9. Structure
•Write your presentation in thisorder:
Objective
Beginning or introduction
Maincontent
Summary, conclusion and
recommendations
Questions
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10. Structure
Introduction
Maintheme
Summary/
Conclusion
GetAttention
Grab theaudience
audience
Contentshouldbe
relevant totopic
Key
message
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11. Prompt
•Short bullet points, key wordsonly.
•Put your entire prompt onto your power
point slides.
•These prompt are foryou.
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12. Visualaids
•Use simple fonts, colors andgraphs.
•Use images andclipart.
•3 to 7 bullets perslide.
•Don’tovercrowdyourslides,itwillnotlook
professional.
•New or different visual
aids wake peopleup.
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13. Voice
•Louder and clear than your normal
pitch.
•Vary pitch andvolume.
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14. Appearance
•Dark colors read asbusinesslike.
•Wear comfortable shoes to weight your
feet evenly.
•Allow yourself to move abit.
•Lookconfident.
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15. Professional dress
code
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16. Style
•You already have a style don’t try tocopy
others.
•Use words and sentences you use in
normal days.
•Beyourself.
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17. Questions
•Sketch an idea that what kind of
questions audience mayask.
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18. Preparationmaterial
•You can use following items to make
the content of yourpresentation:
Handouts
Personalnotes
Internet
Visualaids
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19. Practice
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20. Practice
•Rehearse all points what you prepare.
•Rehearse with all visual aids and
handouts.
•Practice again and again to managetime.
•Rehearse in front of mirror or afriend.
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21. Present
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22. Present
•Make a strongstart.
•Engage the audience in first 2-3minutes.
•Show your passion through your
movements andgestures.
•Make an eyecontact.
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23. Speaker’simpact
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24. Flaws inpresentation
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25. Contd.
•Lack ofexperience.
•Lack ofpractice.
•Lack of related
material.
•Lack ofconfidence.
•Hesitation.
•Ambiguity in the results
that you want to
conclude.
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26. Factors for successfulpresentation
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27. Contd.
•Be overprepared.
•Rehearse and
practice.
•Grip on yourtopic.
•Know yoursubject.
•Bepositive.
•Avoidstress.
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