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Giving Presentations

This document provides an overview of effective presentation skills. It discusses planning a presentation by understanding your audience and goals. Key aspects of preparing include creating an outline, limiting slides, and using visuals to support main points. When delivering a presentation, speakers should focus on their audience, speak with passion, and make eye contact. It's important to practice and feel comfortable with the content. The document also provides tips for answering questions confidently and receiving feedback.

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Giving Presentations

This document provides an overview of effective presentation skills. It discusses planning a presentation by understanding your audience and goals. Key aspects of preparing include creating an outline, limiting slides, and using visuals to support main points. When delivering a presentation, speakers should focus on their audience, speak with passion, and make eye contact. It's important to practice and feel comfortable with the content. The document also provides tips for answering questions confidently and receiving feedback.

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Presentation Skills

Dr. Mark Matthews, Student Learning Development


Ask Yourself
1. What is your experience of giving
presentations?
2. What do you like about it?
3. What do you dislike about it?
4. Will you need to present in the future?
Overview
1. Planning Presentations
2. Preparing Presentations
3. Practicing Presentations
4. Delivering Presentations
5. Dealing with Questions
Planning
Questions to ask yourself?
Who is your audience?
Why are they there?
What is your goal?
How long will it be?
Where will it take place?
Business Card Test
3 Things
If your audience could remember only
three things
about your presentation, what would they be?

(1)_____________

(2)_____________

(3)_____________
Start your Outline

 No Powerpoint
 Film with no script
 Pencil & Paper
 Order your thoughts
 Key points
Structure

Have a sound, clear structure


Structure

Introduction Get Attention

Main theme Content

Summary/
Key message
Conclusions
Create interest
“We need to open gaps before we close them.
Our tendency is to tell people the facts.

First, though, they must realize that they need


these facts.”

Dan & Chip Heath, Make it Stick


Preparation
Speaker’s 3 friends
1. Personal Notes

2. Visuals

3. Handouts
A Few Guidelines
10/ 20/ 30 rule
“should have ten slides, last no more than twenty
minutes, and contain no font smaller than thirty
points.”
Guy Kawaski
Information
1. Most important information Jumps Out
2. Drip feed
3. Never use sentences
Colour

Use colour well


High quality images

Use images to
support your point

Use a consistent
theme
• The evils of Powerpoint are familiar to everyone, they include:
– Too much text
– Too small to read and is really only serving as a crutch for the presenter
– Clip Art and Slide templates that have been seen a million times
– Spinning, wooshing, dazzlings animations

Part of the problem with having so much text onscreen is that it puts of people. If the idea of your presentation
is to read from the slides then we are you there? Besides people can read quicker than you can talk so
they’ll have finished reading your slide and be waiting for the next one, or even worse working on a
masterpience doodle.

Your presentation, Powerpoint or otherwise, should be a supporting aid – you want main the focus on you not
your presentation. Ideally, you should be able to deliver an equally interesting presentation should the
projector/computer/room/audience break.

Avoid too many bullets as well – it makes the information dull for the audience.
PowerPoint Critique
Critique slides you have been given:

 What works?
 What does not work?
 How would you improve?
Practice
Feeling Nervous?
Lack of experience
Lack of preparation
Lack of enthusiasm
Negative self-talk
Presenting Fitness

• Room
• Technology
• Everything
It’s not about you
Focus on your goal
What you are going to say

Audience
Make them comfortable
Make it Interesting
Becoming Confident
Be over-prepared
Rehearse and practice
Know your subject
Use relaxation techniques
Be positive +++
Avoid stressors
But most
importantly……
4. Presenting
Presenting
The most powerful visual aids

• Words
• Voice
• Body Language
Make a strong start
Show Your Passion!
Eye contact
Smile!
Dealing with Questions
TRACT technique
1. Thank the questioner
2. Repeat the question
3. Answer the question
4. Check with the questioner if
they are satisfied
5. Thank them again
Practice
Person A speak for 30 seconds about
your work.
Person B listen. At the end ask a
question.
Person A use TRACT to respond.
Two versions – one topic
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0W
LGqUaM88

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQe
5xW0_288
Just a Minute
 Speak about subject for 1 minute
 Lose 1 point for each ‘umm’ or ‘ahh’
 Pauses and repetition allowed
Receiving Criticism

Step 1: Listen to Criticism


Step 2: Decide on Truth
Step 3: Respond Assertively
Steve Jobs Examples
 Visuals –
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKVY
scOLI54

 Transitions
–
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXyW
eF3v0P4

 Rehearse-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x0O
d7EFppw
Student Learning Development

Thank you for your time

Visit our website at:


http://student-learning.tcd.ie

Blackboard module –
Academic Skills for
Successful Learning (ASSL)

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