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Rijal Najwan Izhhar Bahtiar

AK 40-02

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CHAPTER 2

PRESENTATION SKILLS

Objectives: Students are expected to be able to present their company well and correctly.

In modern English, Presentations tend to be much less formal than they were even twenty years ago. Most audience these days prefer a relatively informal approach. However, there is a certain structure to the opening of a Presentation that you should observe.

1. Get people's attention

2. Greet the audience

3. Introduce yourself

4. State the purpose of your presentation

5. State how you want to deal with questions

How to get people’s attention and welcome them

These are some examples of how to get people’s attention and welcome them:

If I could have everybody's attention.

If we can start.

Perhaps we should begin?

Let's get started.

Attention please, thank you.

Well, since everyone is here and we have a lot to discuss today, let’s get started.

Greet the audience

Hello, everyone. Thank you for coming today.

Good morning everyone. First, before starting the meeting, I’d like to welcome you all.

Thank you all for coming at such short notice.

I really appreciate you all for attending today.

Example:

Smith:

Good morning everyone. First, before starting the meeting. I’d like to welcome you all and thank you very much for coming today, especially at such short notice. Since we have a lot to discuss and I know we are all very busy, so it’s better to start the meeting.

Introduce yourself:

Example:

My name's Jane Shaw. I'm responsible for travel arrangements.

For those of you who don't know me, my name's Tom Stotter.

As you know, I'm in charge of public relations.

I'm the new Marketing Manager.

If there is a new member at that meeting or there is a guest, the person in charge of the meeting should introduce this person or ask this person to introduce himself/herself.

Example:

I’d like to take a few minutes to introduce our new head of marketing department.

Please join me in welcoming Smith, our new HRD manager.

Lucy, would you like to introduce yourself?

Hi, everyone. I’m Gabbie. I’ll be acting as Smith’s assistant while Nia is away on maternity leave.

I’d like to introduce our new secretary, Sally.

Stating the Principal Objectives of a Meeting

We’re here today to talk about (our training development program)

Our objective is to (discuss the new marketing strategy)

Today, I conduct this meeting, which is not in our regular meeting schedule because there is an important issue in finance department.

By the end of this meeting, I’d like to have a solution for our problem.

This morning I'd like to present our new processor.

Today I'd like to discuss our failures in the Japanese market and suggest a new approach.

This afternoon, I'd like to report on my study into the German market.

What I want to do this morning is to talk to you about our new mobile telephone system.

What I want to do is to tell you about our successes and failures in introducing new working patterns.

What I want to do is to show you how we've made our first successful steps in the potentially huge Chinese market.

State how you want to deal with questions

Example:

If you have any questions, I'll be happy to answer them as we go along.

Feel free to ask any questions.

Perhaps we can leave any questions you have until the end?

There will be plenty of time for questions at the end.

Of course, these are only suggestions and other language is possible. Even within this limited group of phrases, just choose a few you feel comfortable with and learn and use those.

EXERCISE 1

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WHAT ARE THE KEY CONSIDERATIONS INVOLVED IN PREPARING A PRESENTATION?

Answer:

Seven key preparing a presentation :

1. Goal Setting Presentation This is the first step before you make up matter, making the slide and determine what approach you will use. Surely you always have a clear objective of your presentation.

2. Recognizing AudienceSalah satu ciri presentasi yang hebat adalah isinya relevan dengan kebutuhan audiens dan bisa menjawab permasalahan audiens. Dan itu hanya dapat Anda lakukan jika Anda mengenal siapa audiens Anda.

3. Develop Presentation MaterialSuccess in the presentation was very influenced by your presentation materials. Because a great presentation is always based on the material that is strong and steady. For that as a presenter you should be able to make a good presentation material and relevant to their audience's needs

4. Designing slide presentationsIf you use a slide presentation, then you also need to prepare a presentation slide design that you will use. Make sure when you create slides, you actually apply the principles of good slide design, and optimize every element of your slide that slides you create effective to communicate your message.

5. Doing Exercise PresentationUnderstand that there will not be a bad presentation, if any presenter train their presentation with cooked. This is the principle that you need to uphold. Even world-class maestro presentation like Steve Jobs was doing the exercises.

6. Preparing Presentation EquipmentThere are some tools you need to prepare. The first is leptop. The second is a remote presenter. Third, LCD Protectors. Especially for LCD projectors, LCD projectors, if for example have been prepared by the organizers, then you do not have to prepare yourself.

7. Keeping stamina in order to stay in shape during the presentationRelated to this, I had an interesting experience for you. So the first time I fill a training once I suddenly blank during a presentation lasts. In a moment I completely forgot what I wanted to convey.