GEB 6115

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GEB 6115
Making Effective Presentations
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Key OneBuild a Relationship With Your
AudienceSlide 1 of 2

• First Impressions
• Dress, Personal Appearance, Deportment
• The Speech-Before-the-Speech
• Make Relational Contact with the Audience
• Let your audience know that you care about them.

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Key OneBuild a Relationship With Your
AudienceSlide 2 of 2

• Understand That All Listeners Ask Themselves Two
  Questions
• Do I Like This Speaker?
• Does This Speaker Like Us?
• Know Your Audience
• Demographics, motives, range of receptivity

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Three Questions for Establishing a Communicative
Relationship
How are we alike?
Why do we need each other?
What are we doing here together?
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Key TwoOvercome the Ego BarrierSlide 1 of 2

• Receiving Power From Your Audience
• Speak on Behalf of Your Audience
• Be yourself
• Dont Start by telling people how wonderful you
  are, rush into your agenda, and/or talk too much
  about yourself
• Bury the Lead
• Build rapport without directly confronting the
  subject at hand

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Key TwoOvercome the Ego BarrierSlide 2 of 2

• Be Sensitive
• Before every speech, mentally change places with
  those that sit before you.

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Four Evidences You Have Broken the Ego Barrier

• Demonstrating Apparent Ease
• Demonstrating Humility
• Demonstrating Transparency
• Demonstrating the Ability to Laugh at Yourself

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Key ThreePromise Your Audience Useable
Information and Keep Your Promise

• Provide Your Listener Useful Content
• Is it important? Is it entertaining? Is it
  classic?
• Be Organized
• Logic flies
• Disorder p l o d s

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Useful Outline for Any Speech
TELL THEM
1. The Promise (What Youre Going to Tell
Them) 2. The Message or Speech (Content) 3. The
Wrap (What Youve Told Them)
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Key Four Creating Tension and Resolution
Building Attention with StorySlide 1 of 3

• Example
• Example - may or not be narrative in form.
• Illustration
• An example that has grown more detailed to more
  thoroughly illustrate a point.

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Key Four Creating Tension and Resolution
Building Attention with StorySlide 2 of 3

• Anecdote
• Is a brief story, often humorous, that binds a
  perceptual point to a running tale to make the
  precept clearer and more memorable.

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Key Four Creating Tension and Resolution
Building Attention with StorySlide 3 of 3

• Narrative
• Not only make clear some important point, but
  because they tell long stories they have the
  possibility of enforcing the speeches logic while
  holding the audiences attention.

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Key Five Developing an Effective Communication
StyleSlide 1 of 2

• The Use of Technology in Communication
• Lighting and Hearing The Psychological Ears of
  the Eyes
• Microphones and Lecterns
• The Real Distance and the Psychological Distance

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Key Five Developing an Effective Communication
StyleSlide 2 of 2

• Listener Involvement
• The Eye-Talk
• The Body Silence
• The Listeners Lean
• Be a Good Listener Yourself
• Dont Ignore Non-Verbal Cues