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Personal Presentation (PP) and Presentation Skills

Dr Samuel Tengey

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Introduction

• Within 5 minutes of interaction, people will

already have formed an opinion about you

• Often you do not have a second chance
• Be aware/guided by the effect of:
• Hallow effects
• First impressions
• Stereotyping
• Present a positive image of yourself
• Do not oversell or undersell yourself

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Introduction

• Personal presentation (PP) is all about marketing

the brand that is you. What others see you do and hear you say influence their opinion about you – so PP is about painting yourself in as positive a light as possible – always.

• Others don’t know what is in you; only find out by
• bserving you ending signals about you
• Peoples’ decision about you depends on what

conclusions they draw from interacting with you.

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Introduction

• Organisations spend time/money working on their

image, brand, trying to produce positive signals.

• Everything a staff does is a form of marketing for

the organisation: positive or negative

• By the same margin, as an individual, everything

you do is giving you a personal branding: an advertisement: positive or negative conveying a message about the corporate YOU

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Areas of Personal Presentation

• Get to know yourself: your strengths, which you

can project; know and address your weaknesses. PP is about:

• Speaking
• Personal appearance and hygiene
• Language/Body language
• Temperament and Attitude
• Quality of work produced
• Confidence
• Morality, ethics and accountability

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Speaking (Effective Speaking)

• Effective Speaking
• Accent
• Voice
• Vocal production:
• volume,
• clarity,
• variety (pace, volume, pitch, pause)
• Slow down
• Keep your head up
• Pause intermittently

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Personal appearance and hygiene

• Facial expressions (smile, anger, fear, dullness, etc)
• Clothes and Grooming: neat, clean well-

presented, not necessarily expensive

• Health and hygiene:
• oral hygiene/breadth,
• under wears,
• body odour,

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Language

• Your use of language brands you
• Language is more than mere communication

medium; it is a tool with which we do things

• Positive language
• Negative language
• Careful selection of words
• Investigate the meaning of words if unsure
• By what sort of language are you known?

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Body language

• Positive

– Maintaining eye contact – Smiling (if appropriate), to show agreement but particularly as a greeting and when parting – Sitting squarely on a chair, leaning slightly forward (this indicates you are paying attention). – Nodding in agreement – A firm handshake – Presenting a calm exterior (not looking agitated) – Looking interested

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Body language

• Negative
• Not looking at a person when speaking
• Tapping a foot
• Rocking backwards and forward
• Scratching the hair
• Fiddling with hair, ear lobes, jewellery, spectacles, etc.
• Picking at fingers or nails
• Yawning
• Repeatedly looking at wristwatch
• Standing too close to others
• Inattention to a person speaking

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Attitude and Temperament

• Attitude

How you think about things, situations and people, and how this affects your behaviour towards these – a subconscious emotional response to situations Temperament Your emotional responses to situations and people and how these are expressed outwardly (anger, calm, happiness, frustration, impatience, abusive language, destructive behaviour, etc)

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Quality of Work

• Your work (artwork, music, piece of writing, play

script, CV, cooked meals/dish, etc) reflects you

• Basis for people taking you seriously
• Quality work, not accident; result of conscious,

intelligent efforts

• Self-critique – a MUST for quality work
• Be aware there are other competing players

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Self Confidence

Self confidence

• Building self confidence
• Positive image:

–Know your facts; rehearse, be competent –Know your strengths, leverage on these –Do not focus too much on your weaknesses –Leave past failures behind –Convince yourself you are the expert of the moment

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Morality, ethics and accountability

–Character –Truthfulness –Honesty –Accountability –Keeping promise –Keeping time and appointments –Responsibility

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Conclusion

• Artificial personal branding projects of image

building, etc will fail in the long run unless the public image we try to build is consistent with our character – who we are at the core

• Make-ups don’t go too far; don’t stand test of time
• Every meaningful and lasting change begin on the

inside and makes its way to the outside

• Action speaks louder than words; the brand

created by your character is the only authentic brand

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