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MAKING PRESENTATIONS
SPEAKING POINTERS |
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- Attitude
- Eye Focus
- Speech Patterns
- Posture
- Hand Gestures
- Eye Focus
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- You are among friends.
- You are prepared.
- You have covered every base.
- You will survive.
- It cannot be as bad as you might expect!
- You are prepared.
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- Have someone to whom to talk
- Create a communication channel
- Maintain rapport
- Smile (but not too much)
- Create a communication channel
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- Enunciate
distinctly
- Use inflection
- Pick words you can pronounce
- Punctuation is there for a purpose
- Use inflection
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- Stand up straight
- Stand on your own two feet
- Choose your space
- Breathe
- Relax
- Stand on your own two feet
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- An extension of posture and eye contact
- Adds emphasis
- Must not be distractive
- To use gestures you cannot have other things in your hands
- Practice
- Adds emphasis
GRAPHICS SUPPORT - PURPOSE
- Back-up to a presentation
- Keep the audience's attention
- To provide structure and order
- To provide notes and headings
- To highlight special points
- To save time of writing
- To provide clarity
USES
- To provide definitions - Accurately
- To communicate special concepts
- To express equations or formulae
- To provide diagrams or pictures
- To provide space for additions
USAGE
The speaker can:
- Never refer to the graphics
- Read the graphic word for word
- Only use the headings
- Use the graphic as a template for both narrative and display
- Construct a graphic on the fly
OVERLAYS
Overhead slides can be overlaid to allow the speaker to add components to a diagram as they become relevant. For example:
can be overlaid to create:
and finally:
Or use fading and overlaying facilities in Presentation packages
PROPERTIES OF GRAPHICS
They should be:
- Readable
- Clear
- Well Organized
- Attractive
- Non-distractive
- Memorable
- Clear
COMMON PROBLEMS
- Too busy, too much, too small
- Too quickly removed
- Distracting
- Poorly Organized
- Non-translatable
- Too quickly removed
Adapted from material © J.A.N. Lee,
1995, 1999.