Presentation skills
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The document provides tips for effective presentation skills. It recommends determining clear goals and objectives, understanding the audience's needs and expectations, and designing the presentation in logical sections with a key message and supporting facts. Further, it suggests preparing for different audience reactions, including conflict resolution techniques if needed, and using engaging activities to keep the audience involved. Finally, it stresses reviewing and rehearsing the presentation to refine it and practice in similar conditions to the actual presentation setup.
Presentation skills
- 2. Presentation Skills Goals – Your goals & objectives drives the development of your presentation. What is that you want to communicate - inform, persuade or sell What is that you want your audience to understand What is the outcome you want – a commitment or action Include some examples & provide fact/details that help you achieve your objective but be crisp and avoid unnecessary details Audience - The better you understand your audience the more you can tailor your presentation to their needs. Who is your target audience and how they are related to topic? What they know about the subject already and what they would be interested in knowing? Are they interested/enthusiastic/hostile? Your reputation with target audience? Their expectation from the presentation?
- 3. Presentation Skills Preparation – Design your presentation in sections. Key message Arguments/fact that supports key message Action required from audience Depending on your audience and their expected response towards the subject, you can prepare the presentation using negotiation/conflict resolution techniques. For example if you know that your audience may be hostile towards the subject then its better to start with the benefits to them. Make sure you include fun activates, games, remarks etc to keep the audience engaged Review & Rehearsal – Make sure you review your presentation with someone to fine tune it. Make sure to rehearse and to get the best try to use the same setup as in final presentation like using projector, audio/video equipments etc