6. Know your Purpose
Know your Audience
Know your Subject
Know your Scope
Be Prepared
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7. Opening
get attention
state the purpose and preview
Body
main points
supporting information
Conclusion
summarize
restate the purpose
memorable ending
Be Organized
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8. A Story
A Question
An Anecdote
A Startling Fact
A Biographical Sketch
Some Statistical Detail
A Proverb or Quotation
Opening Ideas
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9. Summarize main ideas
Refer back to purpose
A question or challenge
A quotation
Closing Ideas
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10. o Clear ideas
o Lucid language
o Simple Words
o Simple Structures
o Supportive cues
o Appropriate examples
o Plain organization
Be Clear
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11. Why Visual Aids?
What you say vs how you say it.
Communication is
- 7% verbal
- 93% NON-verbal
– Visuals
– Gestures
– Movement
– Tone
– Speed
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12. Why PowerPoint?
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Easy to use, edit & reuse
Allows audio, video & animation
Inexpensive
Enhances audience attention
Conserves speaker’s voice
Effective in large groups
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1. Be simple
2. Use highlighters
3. Legible fonts
4. Limited colors
5. Enrich with audio visuals
6. Tidy up text in six by six
14. Effective Slideshows
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Be simple
Use highlighters
Legible fonts
Limited colors
Enrich with audio visuals
Tidy up text in six by six
16. Keep it simple
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17. Effective Slideshows
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Be simple
Use highlighters
Legible fonts
Limited colors
Enrich with audio visuals
Tidy up text in six by six
18. Text in your slides should not be superfluous, ever.
Your slides should have plenty of white space. There
is no need to fill empty areas on your slide with
unnecessary graphics or text boxes that do not
contribute to improved understanding. Note that
the less clutter you have on your slide, the more
powerful your “visual message” will become.
Use Key Words
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Text in your slides should not be superfluous, ever.
Your slides should have plenty of white space. There
is no need to fill empty areas on your slide with
unnecessary graphics or text boxes that do not
contribute to improved understanding. Note that
the less clutter you have on your slide, the more
powerful your visual message will become.
19. Effective Slideshows
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Be simple
Use highlighters
Legible fonts
Limited colors
Enrich with audio visuals
Tidy up text in six by six
22. Font Size
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This is 60 point, bold.
This is 48 point, bold.
This is 40 point, bold
This is 32 point, bold.
This is 24 point, bold.
This is 18 point, bold.
23. Effective Slideshows
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Be simple
Use highlighters
Legible fonts
Limited colors
Enrich with audio visuals
Tidy up text in six by six
26. Effective Slideshows
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Be simple
Use highlighters
Legible fonts
Limited colors
Enrich with audio visuals
Tidy up text in six by six
30. Effective Slideshows
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Be simple
Use highlighters
Legible fonts
Limited colors
Enrich with audio visuals
Tidy up text in six by six
31. Six by six
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No more than six lines
No more than six words
No more than six lines
No more than six words
No more than six lines
No more than six words
32. How much is too much?
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Clarity comes from simplicity in thought and
language. If your ideas are clear in your mind, the
presentation automatically becomes clear. Use
short, simple and familiar words, instead of the
bombastic and high sounding ones. Your sentences
should be short and simple in their structure to
make your points clear. Give plenty of non-verbal
clues, such as gestures and expressions to make
your points further clear. All the main points you
make should be simple and well connected. Each
idea should naturally emerge from the previous.
Use connecting words, ………….
33. How much is too much?
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continued from previous page:
……. milestone words and linkers to help the
audience see the organization. Give necessary and
appropriate examples.
34. Some more tips
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– Don’t just read
– Pause and reinforce
– Use slidemaster to edit
– Be prepared for glitches
– Insert hyperlinks
35. Bad slides
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■ The speaker reads the slides (62%)
■ Text too small to read (47%)
■ Too many fonts and too many colors
■ Too much of text on each slide
■ Full sentences instead of bullet points (39%)
■ Slides hard to see because of color choice (43%)
■ Moving/flying text or graphics
■ Distracting animation (25%)
■ Annoying use of sounds
■ Overly complex diagrams or charts (22%)
36. Don’t
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Don’t read from notes
Don’t read directly from screen
Don’t turn back on audience
Avoid hands in pockets
Avoid non-words / prop words
Don’t talk too fast / too slow
37. Practice
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Learn to speak in public
by speaking in public
again and again and again.
“The skill to do comes with doing.”
– Cicero
38. Thank You
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Send your comments to
lionnagaraju@gmail.com
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Editor's Notes
Eight Attributes:
Ideas -- need not be original, but express them originally
Purpose – recognize in advance and adopt (to entertain, motivate, convince, inform, instruct)
Material – facts and opinions, organize
Consideration -- know your audience and adopt
Delivery – voice, loudness, intonation, emphasis and pauses
Control – be calm, confident and think ahead
Language – colorful words, short sentences
Personality – be natural, sincere and convincing
Presentations become vivid when you present them energetically and dramatically.
Your body language should be supportive and positive. Help your audience visualize your ideas by making them concrete.
Use audio-visual aids whenever necessary. However, never overdose your presentation with unnecessary and excessive animations which distract your audience’s attention till they are lost and miss the point you make.
Similarly, excessive body language also distracts and sometimes even upsets the audience.
Clean and trimmed nails
Eyebrows
Nail polish
Lipstick
Hair on ears
perfume
The four phases of Presentation Skills are Plan, Prepare, Practice and Present.
To plan your presentation, you not only need to know what you are going to talk about, but you should also thoroughly understand why you are making the presentation and whom you are going to speak to.
Preparing includes researching your subject and gathering all available and relevant information.
The importance of practising cannot be overemphasized. Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.
Making a well organized and successful presentation is the final stage.Use descriptive words (metaphors) to trigger sensory cortex in your brain.
Preparing for a presentation includes knowing the purpose of your presentation, knowing your audience, knowing your subject and knowing the scope of your presentation.
Ask yourself why, where, when, and for whom you are going to make the presentation about what. Knowing the answers to these questions will help you plan and make an effective presentation.
Focus your goals by stating your objective: directly tell your audience what you want them to know, what you want them to do, and what outcomes you are expecting.
Systematic organization of your presentation serves three important functions:
It improves clarity of thought, increases effectiveness & credibility and makes the presentation easier to understand.
Every good presentation has three main parts: an introduction, a body, and a conclusion.
The main ideas in the body are usually organized either on time, space or logical sequence.
It is a good idea to open a presentation with a story, a question, an anecdote, an interesting fact, a brief sketch of a biography, some statistical detail, a proverb or a quotation.
The purpose is to draw the attention of the audience to what is going to come.
Remember that whatever idea you use to begin your presentation, it should be brief and relevant to the presentation. For instance, don’t narrate a joke just because it is interesting. In stead search and find a joke that highlights one of your main points.
Clarity comes from simplicity in thought and language. If your ideas are clear in your mind, the presentation automatically becomes clear.
Use short, simple and familiar words, instead of the bombastic and high sounding ones. Your sentences should be short and simple in their structure to make your points clear. Give plenty of non-verbal clues, such as gestures and expressions to make your points further clear.
All the main points you make should be simple and well connected. Each idea should naturally emerge from the previous. Use connecting words, milestone words and linkers to help the audience see the organization.
Give necessary and appropriate examples.
Bad presentations:Skip the practice sessions.Read from your slides verbatim.
Stare at your notes, handouts, or the floor.
Speak in monotone.
Talk really fast, then really slowly.
Assume your audience knows as much as you do.
Take questions at the end of your presentation only.
Fail to have a backup plan
Jam as much information into the slides as possible.
Avoid the use of visuals.
Use plenty of animations—just because you can.
Use transitions arbitrarily.
Use tiny, hard-to-read fonts.
Choose color schemes at random.
Don't proofread.
Forget the feedback.
Do not distract the audience with unnecessary movement, irritating prop words and irrelevant body language. Pacing in panic, standing cross-armed or standing hands-in-pockets, playing with coins or keys in your pockets, turning away from the audience and talking into a visual aid, gestures irrelevant to the message--all of these distract the audience from the speech and should be avoided.
Practice is the only golden key to your success.
Perfection comes from practice and practice is doing something again and again.
Like any other skill – swimming, dancing, cycling – public speaking also is a skill that can be mastered only by speaking in public again and again.
Use mirror as your first audience.
Stand out when you stand up.