Presentation Skills

Adopted by: Dr. Sc. Anton Gojani, professor

Exercise: The good and the bad
Greatest fears

3,000 surveyed

Public speaking (41%)

Heights
Insects,
Financial problems
Deep water
Illness
Death

“Public speaking a fate worse than death”

Overview

• Audience Focus

• Key Message

• Connectedness
 Audience
Audience focus Focus
 The attention curve

Start
Conclusion
Audience
Attention

Time
Typical attention an audience pays to an
average presentation
 Ideal attention curve

Introduction Theme 1 Theme 2 Theme 3 Conclusion

Audience
Attention Intermediate
conclusions

Time
Ideal attention of an audience when the speaker
divides the talk in recognisable parts, each summarised
by intermediate conclusions
Learning styles

Thinkers Doers

Reflector Theorist Pragmatist Activist

(feeling) (thinking) (watching) (doing)

Wants to
understand Likes to “have a
Observes & Prefers doing
underlying reasons, go” try things to
reflects and experiencing
concepts, see if they work
relationships
The rule of three

Friends, Stop,
The good,
Romans, Look & bad & the
Countrymen Listen ugly
Engage the brain

Bird
Picture superiority effect

BIRD

Remember
72 hours later
10% 65%
Window of opportunity

2.5 – 5% of your
total
communication
time
Key message
Key Message
The Four Ps

•Plan
•Prepare
•Practice
•Present
 Make it work

• PRESENT

• PRACTICE

• PREPARE

• PLAN
(Lisa b. Marshall)
Where to start

Brainstorm for
• Why

• Who Plan

• What
Prepare
• How
Practice
• When
Present
• Where
Plan – the core message

Define objective of talk

based on:

Why?
Post-it on side
• Reason for presentation
of laptop with
objective
• Impact on audience written on it

• What action
Stages to building a
presentation

Thinking Building
Rehearsing
Sketching slides

Scripting
Shape the talk
Introduction
Tell’em what you’re gonna tell’em

Body
Tell’em

Summary
Tell’em what you told’em
Introduction

I
S
E
What is WISE ?
Prepare well!
Main part of your presentation
How to present visuals!
Effective Conclusions
Questions
Questions
Guess who’s coming to dinner
• Pitch to audience

- size
- age/gender
- knowledge of subject
(ratio of experts to non experts)
- bias
- cultural make-up

Talk to your audience rather than at them

Emotionally charged event

“People will forget what you

said, people will forget what
you did, but people will
never forget how you made
them feel”

Maya Angelou
 Connectedness
Connectedness
 Communication is three
dimensional

38 % 55 % 7%
Voice/tone Visual/body Verbal/words
language

93% of communication
is non verbal
Supports not crutches

•Flip Charts and White Boards

•Overhead Projector
•PC & Data Projector
•Video/Multimedia
•Handouts
Tips for effective slides

• Keep it simple (6X6 rule)

• One idea per slide
• Good visuals are visible
• 10% of men: red/green colour blind
• “Life span” of each visual (keyboard B)

The art of science communication:

using PowerPoint effectively.
http://ian.umces.edu/pdfs/science_comm_powerpoint.pdf
Q&A pointers

• “What questions do you have?” vs

“Any questions?”

• Most interactive part

• Eliminate barriers
• Repeat or restate
• Respond simply and directly