Prepare & practice the introduction and conclusion
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The document discusses strategies for effectively introducing and concluding presentations. It recommends capturing the audience's attention in the introduction by making it relevant to their interests and using techniques like questions, personal stories, or visuals. The conclusion should summarize the main points and purpose, indicate next steps, and thank the audience. Practicing the full presentation can help improve delivery and reduce filler words. Different delivery methods each have advantages and disadvantages, so using a combination is best.
Prepare & practice the introduction and conclusion
- 3. Questions to ask yourself Identify your aim. Explore the topic of your presentation. Know Your audience. The main points you want to include. Convince your audience to your point of view. Prioritize expected outcomes from your audience. Churning Your Brain
- 4. The Primacy/Recency Effect Or Serial-position effect Decide how you will begin and end the talk. Make sure the introduction captures the attention of your audience and the conclusion summarizes and reiterates your important points. In other words, "Tell them what you're going to tell them. Tell them. Then, tell them what you told them.“ During the opening of your presentation, it's important to attract the audience's attention and build their interest. If you don't, listeners will turn their attention elsewhere and you'll have a difficult time getting it back. Strategies that you can use include the following: Make the introduction relevant to the listeners' goals, values, and needs Step 5: Prepare the introduction and conclusion
- 5. Strategies that you can use include the following: Make the introduction relevant to the listeners' goals, values, and needs. Ask questions to stimulate thinking. Share a personal experience. Begin with a joke or humorous story. Project a cartoon or colorful visual. Make a stimulating or inspirational statement Give a unique demonstration During the opening you want to clearly present your topic and the purpose of your presentation. Clearly articulating the topic and purpose will help the listeners focus on and easily follow your main ideas. Cont.....
- 6. Most people spend hours preparing a presentation but very little time practicing it. When you practice your presentation, you can reduce the number of times you utter words and phrases like, "um," "well," and "you know." These habits can easily diminish a speaker's credibility. You can also fine-tune your content to be sure you make your most important points in the time allotted. In addition to planning the content of your presentation, you need to give advanced thought to how you want to deliver it. Do you want to commit your presentation to memory, use cards to guide you, or read from a script? Or, you might want to use a combination of methods. To help you decide, read the advantages and disadvantages of the four delivery methods described in the upcoming slides. Step 6: Practice delivering the presentation
- 7. A distinct advantage of speaking from memory is your ability to speak to the audience without relying on notes or a script. This allows you the flexibility to move away from the podium and to maintain eye contact with the audience. However, speaking from memory has disadvantages, too. Presentations from memory often sound rehearsed and the possibility exists that you'll forget an important point, present information that's inaccurate, or completely lose your train of thought. If you decide to deliver your presentation from memory, have notes handy to jog your memory just in case! Speaking from Memory
- 8. Many people like to speak from notes. Typically these notes are either on cards or paper in outline form and contain key ideas and information. If you are using an electronic presentation tool, you may be able to include your notes in the presentation itself. The benefit of delivering a presentation from notes is that you sound natural rather than rehearsed and you can still maintain relatively good eye contact with the audience. The down side is that you might not express your key ideas and thoughts as well as you may have liked had you planned your exact words in advance. Speaking from Notes
- 9. Speaking from text involves writing your speech out, word for word, then basically reading from the text. As with speaking from memory, an advantage of this method is that you plan, in advance, exactly what you're going to say and how you're going to say it. A disadvantage is that you might appear to the audience to be stiff or rehearsed. You will need to make frequent eye contact and speak with expression to maintain the audience's interest. Speaking from Text
- 10. The best method of all the three is combination method. For instance, experts suggest you memorize the first and last ten minutes of your talk so that you can speak flawlessly and without notes. Notes may be suitable for segments of your presentation that you know very well, for example, relating a personal story. Finally, speaking from a text might be appropriate when you have quotes or other important points that you want to make sure you communicate accurately and completely. You can make a smooth segue to written text by saying something like: "I want to read this quote to you verbatim, to ensure that I don't distort the original intent." Using a Combination of Methods
- 11. The conclusion is an essential though frequently underdeveloped section of a presentation. This is the stage at which you can summarise the content and purpose of your talk, offer an overview of what has been achieved and make a lasting impact. Important elements of a conclusion are: a review of the topic and purpose of your presentation: "In this presentation I wanted to explore ..."; a statement of the conclusions or recommendations to be drawn from your work: "I hope to have been able to show that the effect of ...."; an indication of the next stages (what might be done to take this work further?): "This does of course highlight the need for further research in the area of ..."; an instruction as to what happens next (questions, discussion or group work?): "I would now like to give you the opportunity to ask questions ..."; a thank you to the audience for their attention and participation: "That's all I have time for. Thank you very much for listening." The Conclusion