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Title: Presentation Skills Workshop


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Presentation Skills
  • Presentation Skills Workshop

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Mountain Barrier
3
Hill Barrier
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Bridge the barrier with your voice, eye contact
and visual aids
5
Rundown of the workshop
  1. Introduction qualities of a good speaker
  2. The structure of a formal speech
  3. Explain the verbal and non-verbal cues which can
    help you present your ideas clearly to the
    audience
  4. Practice Tasks Each student in the group has to
    given a 5-minute impromptu speech

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Types of speeches
  • What sort of presentations do you need to do?
  • Present your projects/assignments
  • Job Interview impromptu presentations group
    discussion skills
  • Seminars and conferences
  • Oral defense of your thesis

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Basic rules in presentation
  • The 3 Vs Vocal (voice), Visual and verbal
    (language, i.e. content)
  • Maintain good eye contact, use some gestures,
    have some facial expressions (but dont overdo
    it), proper dress code, eliminate the ums
    ahs, have voice vocal variety (avoid using a
    monotone)
  • Take a deep breath to relax yourself

8
Attention-grabber
  • 8 ways to draw the attention of the audience
  • Clap hands
  • Eye movement
  • Use visual aids
  • Ask a question
  • Let the audience do a task
  • Use gimmicks (unusual act)
  • Silence
  • Vary your tone or pitch

9
Video
  • Watch the video Speak up with Confidence by
    Jack Valenti
  • Ways to speak forcefully
  • He has given expert advice on using your voice,
    eyes and gestures to get the ideas across to the
    audience.

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Practicespeaking
  • Practice
  • Form groups of 5
  • Each group picks a topic
  • Discuss for 5 minutes
  • The group gives a short impromptu presentation
    Other groups comment on their performance and
    ask questions (1-2 minutes)

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Apply the skills from the video to your
presentation
  • Good performance
  • Maintain good eye contact with the audience
  • Speak clearly
  • Pause when you come across an important point
  • Link up the points systematically
  • Have an introduction, a body a conclusion
  • Use grammatical language with the right tone

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Be prepared
  • Prepare your speech
  • Find a topic
  • Do research to gather data
  • Put the information and data into a speech format
  • Use a 3-tier structure Introduction, body and
    conclusion recommendation
  • Q A session

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Be Prepared To Speak
  • When preparing the speech, you should have your
    audience in mind.
  • Find out the background of the audience
  • What types of work do your listeners do?
  • The purpose of the presentation
  • Common interests among the members
  • Other characteristics

14
Speech preparation
  • Write out the first draft
  • Rehearse it record your speech and then listen
    to it
  • A good speech should target at a specific
    audience and it should have a goal.

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The venue
  • 2. KNOW THE OCCASION
  • Is the occasion solemn, formal, or casual?
  • Does the audience hope to be informed,
    entertained, or inspired? Or do they hope for
    some combination of the three?
  • How long does the program chairman expect the
    speech to be?

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Physical environment
  • 3. KNOW YOUR SPEAKING ENVIRONMENT
  • The size of the room
  • Furniture such as table, lectern
  • Audio-visual equipment computer for powerpoint
    presentation, screen, overhead projector,
    whiteboard etc.

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The Topic
  • 4. PIN DOWN YOUR TOPIC
  • What information do you have that would give
    most benefits to the group members?
  • What does the group expect to hear from you?
  • Is your purpose to inform, persuade, entertain,
    or inspire? Or is it a combination of all the
    above?

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Attractyouraudience
  • 5. Prepare an interesting introduction to capture
    attention
  • Have you included stories, examples, anecdotes,
    illustrations, and factual evidence?
  • Have you included illustrations from your
    personal experience?

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Check the sources of the information
  • 6. RESEARCH
  • Have you assembled the necessary facts and
    statistics to make your case convincing?
  • Are all your facts and statistics accurate and
    current?

20
Write the draft
  • Write the rough draft
  • Introduction
  • Can your introduction grab your audiences
    attention?
  • Does your introduction include a clear statement
    of your point of view?
  • Is the language clear and vivid enough to assure
    your audience that the speech is easy to follow?

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Practice
  • 8. Keep the note cards/ Rehearse
  • Make your notes easy to read, with big lettering
    and plenty of open space
  • 9. Practice
  • Practice varying your eye contact among four or
    five locations
  • Exaggerate variations in the pitch, rate, and
    volume of your voice during the practice session.

22
Control your Nervousness
  • 10. Be calm and be in control
  • Find out from the audiences responses whether
    they can follow your presentation through asking
    a few questions
  • The Q A session

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Discussion
  • The discussion session should concentrate on
    developing a few points clearly and precisely
  • Use anecdotes, stories, humorous observations, or
    illustrations to help your audience visualize the
    meaning of the facts and statistics.

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Conclusion
  • Cue your audience that your conclusion is
    forthcoming
  • State clearly and explicitly exactly what
    actions you would like the listeners to take.

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Resources on the Internet
  • Effective Presentations (KU Medical Centre)
  • http//www.kumc.edu/SAH/OTEd/jradel/effective.html
  • Give excellent advice for those who need to
    present at conferences
  • There are sections on developing effective
    presentations, designing visual aids and creating
    effective poster presentations
  • There is a useful list of links

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Resources on the Internet
  • Presentation Helper
  • http//www.presentationmagazine.com/
  • invaluable advice on different types of oral
    presentations
  • information on job interview presentations
  • a list of ideas for topics for persuasive speeches

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Resources on the Internet
  • Interactive Lesson on Overcoming the Fear of
    Speaking to Groups
  • http//www.school-for-champions.com/speaking/fearw
    bt.htm5
  • MC questions with immediate feedback to make you
    think about presentations
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