presentation-about-presentation-skills.pdf

Presentation about presentation skills

1. Presentation Skills: Crash Course
Radek Pelanek

2. Really Brief Version
Have something to say and say it clearly.

3. Bit Longer Version
How to Give an Academic Talk (P. N. Edwards)
http://pne.people.si.umich.edu/PDF/howtotalk.pdf

4. Presentation Skills
1
overall organization
2
delivery: verbal, non-verbal
3
slides

5. Overall Organization
one
talk is, \one-way"
humans have limited working memory (magic number 7)
use
from concrete to abstract

6. Preparation Hint: Mind Maps

7. Timing
timing
hard
important
very common problem (e.g., thesis defence)
practice
basic guess: 1-3 minutes per slide

8. Delivery
speaking:
loudly
clearly
facing audience
right speed
vary the pitch
eye contact
appropirate gesticulation
beware:
ody language"
hands
this is not easy { don't be unnecessarily depressed by your
mistakes

9. Slides
good design is nice, but
limited time for preparation of presentation
rather than tuning design: content, practice, ...

10. Few Basic Rules Concerning Slides That You
MUST
Do not put too much text on the slide. Otherwise
the listeners will not listen, but read and thus they
will get lost.
put too much text then.
Do not use whole sentences. Just brief
points.
Sub-items should be logical and coherent.
Pictures only relevant.
Colors. Be
creative
Do not read from slides!!! DO NOT USE
unnecessarilylargelettersanddierent
fonts.
Nemchejte zbytecne ruzne jazyky. Pay atentin to typos,
gramattical erors and slang.

11. Slides: Some Tips
large, sans-serif font
contrasting colors
simple design
no crazy visual eects
think twice about the \overview" slide
note: \educational" slides from lectures are often not
good example
try to avoid bullet lists...

12. Summary and Final Tip
slides and delivery are important
content is the key thingEmulate excellent speakers.