ESSENTIAL PRESENTATION SKILLS Eileen Browne - Training Consultant - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

ESSENTIAL PRESENTATION SKILLS Eileen Browne - Training Consultant

If you can unscramble these, they are your link to effective presentations •GNINNALP •CRAPTICE •BILITYAREMOM

Today you will : •Get essential tips for structuring presentations. •Explore and practice techniques to help you deliver a talk. •Discuss how to handle the nerves and keep your audience’s attention. •Identify areas for improvement and action to take forward

Introductions and Aims Me and Presentations Pleasures Pains Aims

Yep – you’re turn already!

Worried? Ask yourself … Why am I giving this presentation now?

One of these words does not fit with the others, can you tell which one? • Objectives • Goals • Aims • Outcomes • Targets • Intentions

Will The Real SMART Outcome Please Stand Up By the end of the presentation the audience will • Understand what our organisation does • Be able to describe the 4 services we offer • Be inspired to support our organisation • Know how to donate to us or support us

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Welcome Back

Writing Outcomes for Presentations Think about your own • presentations. • Write down an outcome for your 5 minute presentation • Write down an outcome for your ‘real world’ presentation

Key Messages WHAT MAKES A KEY MESSAGE MEMORABLE?

Will The Real SMART Outcome Please Stand Up By the end of the presentation the audience will • Understand what our organisation does • Be able to describe the 4 services we offer • Be inspired to support our organisation • Know how to donate to us or support us

Structure • Beginning - Tell them what you’re going to tell them • Middle - Tell them • End - Tell them what you’ve told them • OPEN - 3 KEY POINTS - CLOSE

Beginnings • I nterest/Attention • N ever apologise • T ake a breath • R elate the message • O verview

Endings • C all to action • L ast key message • O pen up for Q&A • S ummarise • E xpress Thanks (for action!)

Ways to engage an Audience?!

Effective Visual Aids • V ibrant • I n Time • S een clearly • U ncomplicated • A ppropriate • L earned in advance

AUDIAL VISUAL KINAESTHETIC

Confidence Cards Introduction 1 5 minutes Materials 9.00  Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears… •Name, background •Purpose of presentation •What’s in it for you •What I’m going to tell you  •Questions & Handouts

Carousel Exercise What Great Presenters Do 3 Groups 3 Flip pages 3 Topics • Words and Language • Visuals, props, supports • Anything else

LUNCH

So … what makes us nervous?

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Warming Up The Vocals •Eleven benevolent elephants •Girl gargoyle, guy gargoyle •Rubber baby buggy bumpers •She stood on the balcony inexplicably mimicking him hiccupping and amicably welcoming him in. •Six sick slick slim sycamore saplings.

And the old favourite… Peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked. If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

And more ….. High roller, low roller, lower roller I need a box of biscuits, a box of mixed biscuits and a biscuit mixer He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts Friday’s five fresh fish specials Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie

Written Feedback • What can I let them know is working and to keep doing • What do I think would make their presentation more effective • What areas should they take action on • … and the same for you

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Questions about Questions

Difficult Questions/Situations • You are not senior enough to deal with the question • You have no idea what they are talking about • You don’t know the answer OR you have a vague idea of the answer but don’t know all the facts • Closing a conversation … what can you do / say / be

Interviewer to Chris de Burgh … “And to what do you owe your overnight success?” Chris de Burgh to interviewer … “30 years of long, hard work”

Final Thoughts… “ Proper Planning and Preparation Prevents Poor Performance” Stephen Keague , The Little Red Handbook of Public Speaking

THANK YOU Eileen Browne Training Consultant ebrowne@dsc.co.uk 07508 939 668 www.dcs.org.uk