1. MPHA 2016 Julie Benson-Rosston
Presentations 101
MPHA 2016
Julie Benson-Rosston

2. If you don’t believe in eternity, try giving a five-minute speech sometime.
~Anonymous

3. PREVIEW Challenges Audience analysis Using technology
Speaker nervousness
Question-answer session

4. Audience Analysis Determine your purpose Consider your audience
Inform
Persuade
Manage your time limit
Content
Practice
Consider your audience
Demographics
Psychographics
Situational elements
Tailor the message

5. TECHNOLOGY Should I use technology? How should I use it?
What do I use?
Prezi tutorial.pptx
Does it serve a purpose?
Does it enhance, not distract?
How should I use it?
Knowledgeably
Sparingly
Effectively

6. Life after Death by Power Point

7. Tips for Using Power Point and Prezi
Use a slide master
Simplify and limit the number of words
Limit punctuation
Don’t use all CAPS
Use contrasting colors
Slide master for CONSISTENT and SIMPLE design
Don’t write out complete sentences—and NO IDENTICAL HANDOUTS
Limit effects—takes the focus of you and your CONTENT
COULD ALSO be perceived as “cutesy”

8. More Tips Avoid patterned backgrounds Limit flashy special effects
Show no more than one slide per minute
Know how to move forward and backward with the slides
Practice with the technology
Have a Plan B

9. According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking
According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.
~Jerry Seinfeld

10. Symptoms of Speaker Nervousness
Sweaty hands
Butterflies in stomach
Quickened heart rate
Dry mouth
Forgetting what to say
Trembling hands
Knocking knees
Quivering voice
Fidgety hands
Red face/throat

11. Types of Anxiety WebMd Low-trait anxiety High-trait anxiety
Improves as the speech progresses
Sometimes wishes for more time
“Habituaters”
Can worsen as the speech progresses
React more negatively to the stressors
“Sensitizers”

12. Some anxiety is ok, even good
Strategies
Remember:
Some anxiety is ok, even good
Prepare!
Visualize
Practice, practice, practice!
Sensitizers—Focus on the smaller things

13. The “little things” Dry mouth? Knees knocking? Hands trembling?
Take a little sip of water.
Knees knocking?
Shift your weight and flex your knees
Hands trembling?
Put them together.

14. More “little things” Quivering voice? Sweating? Try more volume (jbr)
"Pause, take a deep breath or two, and smile.” (SJC)
Try more volume (jbr)
Sweating?
Take a small towel (jbr)
"Forget it, nobody sees that anyway,"
(Southern Journal of Communication)

15. Elements of Delivery Type Eye contact Volume Pace Tone Body language
Impromptu, manuscript, memorized, extemporaneous
Eye contact
Volume
Pace
Tone
Body language
Disfluencies

16. Question-Answer Session
Do’s:
Prepare
Plan to take control
Listen and Understand
Communicate to all
Respond
Redirect
Preparing---anticipate the questions you will be asked ESPECIALLY the difficult ones. Don’t just cross your fingers and figure it will be okay. Plan to
Take
Control—Decide when questions can be asked. I recommend the end. Have people write their questions down and they can wait. If you decide to allow questions, then be very
MINDFUL of time. You don’t want to get derailed.
BECAUSE OF
NERVES
Or FEAR of a particular question, we don’t always listen to the full question. IREPEAT THE QUESTION—ONE so you can clarify if necessary and TWO because often the rest of the audience doesn’t hear it. If you don’t understand what’s being asked---clarify until you do.
Make sure that in answering, you engage and involve the rest of the audience—very frustrating to the rest of the group if the q/a session is filled with 1:1 conversation that they are just present for.
Then, answer the question the best you can. If you don’t know, that is okay. Commit to following up.
If a person keeps harping on a question/comment, let them know you need to move on. (Examples: Audience?) ) Be a broken record and hen literal go to someone else. Redirect of it’s not within your area of expertise or if it’s not within the scope of this presentation.

17. More about Q/A University of Leicestser UK
Don’ts
Answer the question you wish you’d been asked
Make a second “presentation”
Pass the blame
Become defensive
Allow one person to monopolize the time
Not—well, I didn’t make that decision……..

18. RECAP Identify challenges Consider your audience Use technology well
Manage your nervousness
Prepare for Q/A

19. Julie Benson-Rosston www.mediatemontana.com
Thank You!
Julie Benson-Rosston