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Presentation Skills

Agenda

• Preparing Your Presentation• Structuring Your Presentation• Making Your Presentation• Supporting Your Presentation

01Preparing The Presentation

The 3 Ws:

• Why?

• What?

• Who?

01Why?

WHY AM I GOING TO GIVE THIS PRESENTATION?

01What?

What your key message should be?

• A metaphor or analogy• Slogans, theme tunes, logos and mascots

01Who?

• Who are the participants? Level? Background?

• WIFT? (What's In it For Them?)

01Figure Fallacy

02Structuring The Presentation

Biker B

02Biker B

• Bang!

• Introduction

• Key points

• Examples

• Recap

• Bang!

02Types of Bangs!

• You don’t have to be a clown

• Start with a BANG that suits your personality

02Key Points

• 1-5 key points.

• Ask yourself WIFT?

• When in doubt, cut it out!

• Include only key points which support your main message and think, ‘What would I need to hear if I were in their shoes?’

02Timing

Rehearse it Time it Cut it by 50%

Always stick to the schedule

• The senior participants will conclude that you can't plan and willworry about the schedule – and your career!

• Your fellow speakers will resent you taking their time

• Non-speaking participants will stop listening and start thinkingabout coffee or lunch or their holiday in Spain

02Notes

KEY WORDS

DRAWINGS

LOGOS

03Making The Presentation

Competitors 3 Ps

03Using Your Voice

03PAMPERS

ProjectionArticulationModulationPronunciation EnunciationRepetitionSpeed

03Cloths

03LIGHTHOUSE Technique

03Body Language

When you forget your body;

so will they!

03Facilitating Discussions

SOCRATIC DIRECTION:

KOPSA

Know the answers you want but know that you don’t know everything!

Open with open questions

Paraphrase participants' answers

Summarize contributions

Add your own points

03Questions and Interruptions

REFLECT OR

DEFLECToGroupoRicochetoReverse

03Challenging Participants

1. The Heckler• Probably insecure• Aggressive and argumentative

What to do: Never get upset Find agreement on something, move on Wait for a misstatement of fact and

then throw it out to the group for correction

032. The Talker/Know All• An 'eager beaver'/chatterbox• A show-off• Well-informed and anxious to show it

What to do:Wait until he/she takes a breath,

thank, refocus and move onSlow him/her down with a tough

questionJump in and ask group to commentUse as a 'co-presenter

Challenging Participants

03Challenging Participants

3. The Griper• Feels 'hard done by‘

What to do: Get him/her to be specific Show that the purpose of your

presentation is to be positive and constructive

Use peer pressure

03Challenging Participants

4. The Whisperers • Don't understand what's going on• Sharing anecdotes triggered by your

presentation• Bored, mischievous or hypercritical

What to do: Stop talking, wait for them to look up

and 'non-verbally' ask for their permission to continue

03How to Read Your Audience

Holding back a negative attitude

03

Confident or ‘know it all’ attitude

How to Read Your Audience

03

I won’t say it I don’t believe it It’s not true

How to Read Your Audience

03

I’m bored I’m thinking about it I’m not sure

How to Read Your Audience

03

I’m Ready Let’s End

How to Read Your Audience

04Supporting The Presentation

Loots of words, Lots of sentencesSmall font, Long

paragraphsSpelling mistakes,

No ImagesStuffed slides

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Very bad font

04

Frame Letters ImagesColourKISS

• Keep it short and simple!• 1 topic• Six lines maximum• Six words per line maximum

FLICK

04You

04MURPHY’S LAW

'If something can go wrong – it will!'

Remember

• 3 Ws• BIKER B• 3 Ps• PAMPERS• Murphy Monkey• Cloths• Lighthouse• Body Language• KOPSA• Challenging Participants• FLICK

Remember

You can’t do what you think you can’t do but you can do when you

BELIEVE that you can do.

It’s the power of belief!