Preparing Presentations & Presentation Skills

Contents:

This is an overview of the information contained in this module–refer to it as a guide.

1 Hardest types of Presentations

And, these are the types of presentations that you will be giving. Your goal is to convince your audience that the decisions you have made related to your project are the correct ones. Another goal is to motivate your audience to assist and agree with you.

2 Biggest Efforts

2.1 Preparing the Presentation

2.2 Delivering your Presentation

2.3 Questions and other challenges

2.4 Strengthening your Presentation

3 The Three Toughest Presentations

  1. Closing a big sale
  2. Launching a change effort
  3. Persuading approval of a risky new investment

3.1 Closing the Big Sale

3.2 Inspiring Change

3.3 Burning Building Approach

3.4 Minimize the radical nature of the proposal

4 Preparing your Presentation

4.1 Build a Presentation that Motivates

4.2 How to Structure a Persuasive Speech

4.3 Prepare your material

5 20 Strategies for Reducing Stage Fright

  1. Understand that your listeners want you to do well
  2. Believe that you know more than your audience
  3. Familiarize yourself with the setting
  4. Get to know some members of the audience before you speak
  5. Choose topics you know something about
  6. Prepare your message, indeed, overprepare
  7. Focus on your audience, not yourself
  8. Don’t practice in front of a mirror
  9. Never tell the audience you are nervous
  10. Label your physiological excitement as positive rather than negative
  11. Talk positively about your presentation to yourself
  12. Turn your energy into something positive
  13. Get rid of your “rigid” rules about speaking
  14. Be flexible and adaptive during your presentation
  15. Understand that no presentation is “that important”
  16. Remember that you are not a good judge of how nervous you appear
  17. Believe compliments on your presentation
  18. Think! Plan ahead to avoid problems

6 6 Ways to grab your Audience

  1. Make it Personal
  2. Throw out a quirky fact
  3. Put them on the edge of their seats
  4. Draw a hypothetical scenario
  5. Create a series of vignettes
  6. Use a pertinent quote

7 Handling Q&A

8 Difficult Questions

9 Don’t Make These Common Mistakes

10 Presentation Requirements

11 Various Presentation Methods

12 Critical Presentation Ingredients

13 Standard Presentation Model

13.1 Presentation Introduction

13.2 Main Presentation

13.3 Audience Questions

13.4 Conclusion

14 Presentation Aids

15 Presentation Speech

16 Platform Presence

17 Presentation Slides

18 Presentation Organization and Results

If you are lucky and your presentation was successful

19 The Unexpected Presentation Catastrophe

Even with:

Plan for the unexpected