1. Presentation Skills

2. Today’s schedule… Recap of Time Management Understanding Confidence
Presentation Skills
So today’s schedule… let’s have a look at what we will be covering today:
Unfortunately as part of presentation skills we have to do a lot of presenting- but bear with us!

3. Re- cap
Can anyone remember what you learnt from our last session? A minute to write down.
Time management:
Organise your time
Be realistic, keep diary/calendar/ use mobile
Take time to relax
Knowing the time you have available, prioritising, working as a team to complete a task.

4. Understanding of….. To be able to present you need show confidence.
What is your understanding of this word? What does it mean to you?
Working in pairs, jot down some examples of being confident – Then present back to the group.

5. Which do you do….
A Going into a shop with your friends and asking whether they have any jobs
B Going into a shop by yourself and enquiring as to whether they have any jobs
A Using eye contact when speaking to someone
B Looking at the floor when speaking to someone
These statements refer to appearing confident….Which do you do….A or B?
Reading through the above statements which one do you do? which one should you do?
You need to review the examples’ which do you do…’ and agree with your partner which is one you would do A or B
Discuss answers…

6. Which do you do…. A Ringing up a shop to enquire about a vacancy
B Getting your mum/ older sister to ring up about a vacancy
A Ordering your food at a restaurant
B Getting someone else to order your food for you
Which do you do….A or B?
Reading through the above statements which one do you do? which one should you do?

7. Which do you do….
A Giving single word answers to questions– yes / no /grunt (!) B Speaking to people in full sentences A Sitting in a chair, shoulders back and spine straight B Sitting in a chair, slouching ….
Which do you do….A or B
Reading through the above statements which one do you do? which one should you do?

8. Tips to boost confidence
Act how you want to feel
Believe in yourself
Be kind to yourself
Always see the bright side
Go for gold!
5 tips to boost your confidence….
1 Act how you want to feel
Your body language and the way you present yourself can make you feel more confident. So wear what makes you feel good, stand up straight, smile and look people in the eye.
2 Believe in yourself
If you want to succeed and be happy, you have to believe in yourself. Never lose sight of the things you’re good at, what you like about yourself and the nice things you do for other people.
3 Be kind to yourself
We’re our own worst critics. While a little self-criticism is healthy, it’s important not to be too hard on yourself. If you always tell yourself, ‘I’m not good enough’ or ‘I’ll never be who I want to be’, you’ll start to believe it – and that will do nothing for your self-esteem. So make sure you treat yourself with the same respect you give other people.
4 Always see the bright side
We can’t plan everything and sometimes things will go wrong. So when they do, remember that everything’s not always going to be this way. And remind yourself that most things usually go well!
5 Go for gold!
Set yourself a challenge, like mastering a hobby or overcoming your biggest fear. Working towards something positive will help you to feel good about yourself.
Recognize your talents and good qualities and write them down.
No matter how down you feel, try to pat yourself on the back a little and remember the things you excel at. Focusing on your better attributes will distract you from perceived flaws and boost your sense of worth. Think of your good qualities in looks, friendships, talents, and most of all, personality.
•Think back on compliments from other people. What have they told you about you that you otherwise haven't noticed or acknowledged? Maybe they've remarked on your smile, or your ability to stay cool and collected in stressful situations.
•Remember past accomplishments. It can be something other people recognized, like being at the top of your class, or something only you know about, like a quiet act of service to make life easier for someone else. Realize how great this was. You go!
•Think about the qualities you try to cultivate. No one's perfect, but if you're actively trying to be an honorable, good person, give yourself some credit for effort. The fact that you think about bettering yourself at all says that you're humble and good-hearted, and those are positive attributes.
•Now write down everything you can think of and refer back to it next time you're feeling down. Add to it as you remember more things you can take pride in doing.

9. Presentation Skills
What skills to do you need to present? Presentation skills are the skills you need in delivering effective and engaging presentations to a variety of audiences. These skills cover a variety of areas such as the structure of your presentation, the design, the tone of your voice and the body language you convey.
Work in groups of 4, list 3 points that you think make a good presentation and 3 that make a poor presentation
List 3 worries/concerns that you have about giving a presentation
Put concerns on paper and revisit at the end

10. What makes a poor presentation?
Little/no eye contact
Mumbling
Reading from a paper
Little/no structure
Too much information
Bad visual aids
So, what does make a bad presentation? We will come on to what makes it good.
1. No engagement with the audience
2. Often because not engaging with audience
3. Too fast, monotone
4. Lack of clarity

11. Exercise Exercise 1 Making Contact (Choose 3 - 4 students)
Get students to stand up and introduce themselves and say something about themselves. They are to spend 10 secs looking at the audience before saying anything. They are to think about making eye contact and speaking clearly. How did they feel in that 10 secs? Did the audience feel they made ‘contact’ ? Select some 3 students for this.
Exercise 2 Having a Safety Net (Rachael)
HAVE A TEXT WITH SMALL AND LARGE PRINT TO HAND
Select 2 students for this exercise.
Give them something to read with normal print
Something to read from very large print
Ask students if having the large print made it more difficult to read fast.
Ask how they could adapt the text on the paper to make them pause and look up.
Use clear headings, so that you don't lose your place
Use a large font size and double spacing so you can read your notes clearly at a glance
Highlight or colour the points you want to emphasise
Highlight the places you intend to pause for effect
Number all your pages
Print on one side of the paper only.

12. What makes a good presentation?
Go through each one and explain

13. Barriers and how to overcome them
Common barriers to delivering a good presentation:
Lack of confidence
Lack of control
Bad memory or experience
What would make you feel more/less confident?
What would give you more/less control?
Common barriers – it may be one or two or all of them that you experience
Lack of control- (or a feeling of not having control) - over the situation, other people (the audience) and our own reactions and feelings
What affects these? – size of the audience, nature of the audience/situation etc.
Nature of audience - Most of us would not feel very fearful if required to give a presentation to a class of 30 five-year-old children, but we would feel somewhat more fearful if required to give a presentation to an interview panel of three high court judges. So audience size is not everything - it's the nature of the situation and audience too.
All of these combine to represent a perceived uncontrollable threat to us at a very basic and instinctive level (which we imagine in the form or critical judgment, embarrassment, humiliation, etc).

14. Barriers and how to overcome them
Lack of confidence and control is usually caused by 2 things…
Bad preparation and/or rehearsal
Lack of experience and/or knowledge
These can be overcome by…
Making the effort to prepare and rehearse before the presentation happens
Know what you are talking about - revise your presentation
don’t leave it until on the day, practice in the weeks beforehand.
Know what you are talking about- this will lead to you being more confident.
If you have a bad memory it was probably caused by one of the above!

15. Top tips
Preparation and knowledge of subject and the presentation itself.
Remember that no-one can intimidate you without your permission.
Good presenting is about entertaining as well as giving information.
Enjoyment and humour are mostly in the preparation. These effects are not easily produced spontaneously.
Ask the students to read out one each
…Which importantly produces confidence and control, in turn making you more relaxed
You have every right to control anyone who does not respect this. When you are a presenter you are in charge.
Even the most dull topics can be made fun with a little bit of imagination. As well, people retain more if they are enjoying themselves and feeling relaxed. Try to find ways to make the content and delivery enjoyable.
You don't need to be a natural stand-up comedian to inject enjoyment and humour into a presentation or talk. It's the content that enables it, which is very definitely within your control.

16. Top tips Make a good opening impression within 7 seconds.
Try to build your own credibility in your introduction, and create a safe comfortable environment for your audience.
Smile 
Take deep breaths to relax yourself.
Ask the students to read out one each
Research and studies generally indicate that in presentations you have between seconds in which to make a positive impact and good opening impression, so make sure you have a good, strong, solid introduction, and rehearse it until it is 'second nature' to you and an action of 'unconscious competence'.
You will do this quite naturally if you appear to be comfortable yourself.
Smiling helps a lot. It will relax you and the audience. In addition to giving you a relaxed calm appearance, smiling actually releases helpful 'happy' chemicals into your nervous system, and makes you feel good.
Helps make you seem more confident and in control

17. Receiving information
How much of the information you receive in this way is retained
Read 10%
Heard 20%
Seen 30%
Heard and Seen 70%
Said 70%
Said and Done 90%
It is a good idea to try and use as many of these as possible when presenting so that your audience retain as much of the information as possible.
Can anyone guess what these images and figures mean?

18. Presentation Anxiety
Raising pulse Butterflies in your stomach Trembling voice
If you experience any of these symptoms before/during after your presentation then you may be plagued with what is commonly known as performance anxiety. It can be overcome using all of the things we have talked about. Think about relaxing to deal with your nerves…

19. Dealing with nerves Be prepared Deep breathing
Engage with your audience
Practice in the same place where you will be presenting and to a small audience who can give honest feedback, Practice in front of a mirror and record your presentation – rehearse answering questions, learn everything about the subject your are presenting,
Redirect – put your energy to something more productive like being expressive in gestures, to boost your confidence
Visualise – scan for a friendly face in the crowd, or focus forwards
Confidently – force your self to act confidently through eye contact, body language, facial expressions, tone of voice
Breathing – take deep slow breaths to improve blood flow and oxygen, which will increase your mental alertness
Audience – begin by asking a question, build rapport by talking to them as you would a friend.

20. Presenting as part of a team
Plan and talk together
Set responsibilities
Structured presentation
Smooth links between speakers
Your presentation must flow TOGEGTHER
Intro – sections - conclusion
Ensure everyone will speak
Someone to introduce talk and introduce next topic & speaker
Someone to conclude

21. Presentation time! You will now become news readers!
5 minutes- read news article and highlight key points
15/20 minutes- Prepare to present your news story. Remember what we have talked about today.
Everyone must participate in some way!
If you have any questions or would like some ideas/guidance,
Please ask us!
You will have 5 minutes to present your news story.
Activity:
The idea is that in this case you should treat the audience like aliens as if they know nothing.
Hand out a different news story to each team and ask them to prepare a presentation.

22. Time to Present
How did you fid it presenting information which you were only given 20 minutes ago? Difficult?
Remember: Presentations can be fun - how often do you get to be the centre of attention?!

23. Presentation time!
Now we would like you to present to us everything you have learnt over the past 3-4 weeks.
Team working
Communication
Time management
Presentation skills
20 minutes- Prepare to present.
You will have 5-10 minutes to present.
Is there anything you learnt from the previous activity which you would do differently now?
Now ask the group to prepare a presentation about everything they have learnt in the previous sessions.

24. Time to Present
How did you find it that time presenting about a topic you have knowledge on? Easier than before?
Remember: Presentations can be fun - how often do you get to be the centre of attention?!

25. Presenting yourself When is it important to present yourself well?
How can you do this?
Now we have looked at presenting information, we will move on to how we present ourselves. Confidence and control still come into it so it is quite similar.
Interview?
First day at work/school?

26. What's bad Short answers to question Rude Dressed scruffy
Bad body language(leaning back in the chair showing no interest).
Being late
Fidgeting(chewing gum, texting etc…)

27. What is good
Body language – siting up straight and showing your interested.
Being happy and friendly
Willing
Clear speaking
Being polite
In depth answers to the questions
Dressed smart

28. Example: Job Interview
Remember, first impressions count and an interviewers decision will be largely be influenced by ‘what you don’t say’- your body language
Smiling
Firm hand shake
Good eye contact
So make sure you practice your non-verbal/body language presentation as much as your verbal. Before attending an interview.
Who can remember how long it takes to make a first impression?

29. Homework
Homework – Ahead of next week’s session, we would like you to watch an episode of Dragons Den. It is on BBC 2 or on iPlayer. It will help you for your tasks next week.

30. Recap – what you have learnt today, please right a point each on the flip chart provided.
Go back to list of concerns students identified at the beginning of the session and see if they are able to answer them
Thank you for attending today’s session, we hope that you have found it informative and useful … any questions?