1. Presentation Skills
Clara McCabe

2. Objectives At the end of this session you will be able to:
Describe the qualities of an effective presenter
Plan a presentation
Develop learning objectives for your presentation
Use effective visual aids
Adopt several methods and tools for presenting
Use positive presentation style behaviours

3. Qualities of an Effective Presenter
Appearance
Interesting Voice
Attitude
Knowledge
Good Eye Contact
Enthusiasm
Confident Manner
Audience

4. Planning a Presentation
Why are you speaking?
Who will be in the audience?
How long do you have to speak?
Clear objective
Plan the content: introduction, middle, summary
Prepare visual aids
Prepare briefing notes
Rehearse

5. The Audience What are they expecting to hear?
What do they know already?
Will they have strong opinions?
Will it be clear why the subject should matter to them?
Do I have support or opposition from particular people?

6. Audience attention span – 20 minutes

7. Communicating to Convince
Set a clear
objective
Structure
according to
the objective
Put together
your notes
Create visuals
Opening Attention Grabber
Deliver the body of your presentation
Summarise &
conclude
Respond to
questions &
objections
Suggest next
steps
End with an
energetic
statement

8. Understanding Objectives
What is the main purpose?
What do I want the audience to do as a result?
What will be my overall message?
What are the main points I need to get across?

9. Opening Attention Grabbers
Facts
Rhetorical
Questions
Arresting Statements
Quotes
Jokes
Short
anecdote
or story
A statement
of your objectives

10. Why Use Visual Aids? Of the information that is remembered:
85% is through seeing
11% is through hearing
4% is through the other senses
Researchers have found that:
Only 10% of presentation is remembered
Increases to 50% if visual aids are used
70% if both visual aids and participation is used

11. The Trouble with Visual Aids
Many people simply put too much information into a visual
aid and then compound the situation by saying something
like ‘you probably can’t read this’ and then trying to talk
through an awkward description of what is on the screen.
The other problem is that people will automatically read
anything that is put in front of them. So if they spot
something on the slide that mentions something unrelated
to the presentation, e.g. ‘your flies are undone’ (admittedly
this doesn’t come up in a presentation that often) people stop
thinking about what the speaker is saying and their mind
drifts away to this new topic. To test this, we predict that
most men will check that they are properly dressed
within the next fifteen minutes.

12. Tips on using Visual Aids
Use simple words, short bullet points
Remember space = Legibility
Large typeface is easier to read
Pictures enhance the visuals

13. Presentation Style Good posture - open hand and arm movements
Control of distracting mannerisms
Eye contact with all the audience
Voice - good speed, pace, tone, pitch and varied modulation
Energy and enthusiasm
Controlling nerves

14. Summary 8 qualities of an effective presenter
How to plan a presentation
Take your audience into consideration
Understand objectives
Attention grabbers!
Tips on visual aids
Your presentation style