Presentation Skills for Business Students
                                    - Guidelines on Presentation

                                          Literature used:

*         Mark Powell: Presenting in English – How to Give Successful Presentations, Thomson Heinle
1996.



*         Mario Klarer: Působivá prezentace a přednáška v angličtině, Grada 2007.







                                 Criteria to be met when presenting

*           Well defined topic and structure of presentation.

*           Good interaction with audience (rhetorical questions, question tags). Keeping their
attention.

*           Keeping and referring to the structure of the presentation. Announcing next point
(Signposting).

*           Handling Question and Answer Session well.

*           Keeping time limit.

                                            Introduction

*         Your name.

*         Position in the company (especially if related to the topic of your presentation).

*         Topic of your presentation (personalizing your topic).

*         Purpose of presentation.

*         Structure of presentation.

*         Information about Q&A Session.

                                            Signposting

*        In good presentation, what you say – the content- is much more important than anything
else. But a clear structure helps. When you move on to your next point or change direction, tell the
audience.

                                        Signposts - examples

*         To move on to

*         To go back to

*         To summarize

*         To expand on

*         To recap on

*         To turn to

*         To digress from

*         To conclude

*         To elaborate on

                                       Commenting on Visuals

*        Visuals help you to give a lot of information in a short space of time.



*        They are “quick snapshots“ of situations, developments, events and processes which would
take a long time to explain fully in words.







                                       Commenting on Visuals 

*            Good visuals speak for themselves and require little or no description, but you often
need to draw your audience´s attention to one or more key points before you discuss them in detail:





q  1 HIGHLIGHTS – Which parts of the visual are most significant?

q  2 COMMENTS – Why?

q  3 INTERPRETATIONS – What conclusions can you draw?

                                        Types of visuals - 1

                                        Types of Visuals - 2

                                    Question and Answer Session

*        Must be included in the presentation.

*        You need to invite your audience to ask questions.

*        You need to anticipate questions and ideally have answers to them ready.



                                        End of presentation.

*        You need to thank the audience for their time and attention.