TIPS ON DELIVERING A PRESENTATION

Ø  Types of presentation: press conference, briefing, demonstration, product launch, lecture, talk,
seminar, workshop,

Ø  stand-up presentation – one person talking to an audience


PREPARATIONS

v  Worth doing BEFORE you appear in front of your audience:

Ø  Find about the audience. How many people, who they are, why  they are there, how much they know
about the subject

Ø  Find about the venue and the facilities. The room, the equipment, the seating plan etc.

Ø  Plan the content and the structure. Don’t write the complete text of the presentation,

Ø  Try to memorize the first five sentence of your talk.

Ø  Rehearse your presentation. Practice it so that it becomes very familiar with friends or
colleagues


   PARTS OF PRESENTATION
 1. Introduction – introduce yourself, outline, prompt questions

Ø  My name is .., I work for .., My talk is called ..

Ø  There are … I want to talk about

Ø  If you have any questions, I’ll be happy to answer them at the end of the session
 2. Main part – gain the audience‘s attention, voice, more tips

Ø  Telling an anecdote, story, perhaps a personal one

Ø  Mentioning really surprising fact or statistic

Ø  Stating a problem

Ø  Asking a question

Ø  Speak in a natural tone of voice, don’t shout

Ø  Iif using a microphone, don’t hold it too close to your mouth

Ø  Don’t speak in a monotone = on the same level all the time, vary the level of your voice


 3. Closing – bring the presentation to a close, answer questions, final     phrase

Ø  Let me sum up

Ø  That brings me to the end.

Ø  Are there any questions?


  MORE RECOMMENDATIONS

 a. Start on time – don’t wait for latecommers
 b. Keep to your timings – plan how long you’re going to spend on each point and keep it
 c. Don’t spend too much time on something
 d. Don’t digress – don’t talk about the things that have nothing to do with the subject, unless
you have a particular purpose in mind :/)
 e. Finish on time – don’ t run over, it looks bad if you don’t have time to finish all your points
and answer questions


                                  BODY LANGUAGE

Ø  Make eye contact. – look at each person in the audience for about a second, before moving on to
the next person. Don’t concentrate on just one or two people.

Ø  Face your audience at all times. – don’t speak to the equipment or the screen

Ø  Smile – at appropriate moments, but not too much

Ø  Use gestures. – hand movements to emphasise the key points.

Ø  Stay more or less in one place. – don’t move around too much