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Personal Presentation (PP) and Presentation Skills Dr Samuel Tengey 8/26/2015 Personal Presentation Dr Samuel Tengey 1 Introduction Within 5 minutes of interaction, people will already have formed an opinion about you Often you do


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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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