TIPS ON DELIVERING PRESENTATIONS

   

   O/  Types of presentation: press conference, briefing, demonstration, product launch, lecture,
   talk, seminar, workshop,

   O/  stand-up presentation – one person talking to an audience

   

   PREPARATIONS

   

   v  Worth doing BEFORE you appear in front of your audience:

   

   O/  Find about the audience.

   O/  Find about the venue and the facilities.

   O/  Plan the content and the structure.

   O/  Try to memorize the first five sentence of your talk.

   O/  Rehearse your presentation.

   

   

      PARTS OF PRESENTATION

   

    1. Introduction - introduce yourself, outline, prompt questions
    2. Main part – gain the audience‘s attention, voice, more tips
    3. Closing – bring the presentation to a close, answer questions, final        phrase

   

   

                 MORE TIPS

   

   O/  Start on time.

   O/  Keep to your timings.

   O/  Don’t spend too much time on something.

   O/  Don’t digress.

   O/  Finish on time.

   

   

                                       BODY LANGUAGE

   

   O/  Make eye contact.

   O/  Face your audience at all times.

   O/  Smile, but not too much.

   O/  Use gestures.

   O/  Stay more or less in one place.