Making Effective Presentation and

Discussion
 Making Effective Presentation and Discussion

⮚In professional occasion, many kinds of presentation done

by people such as business presentation, invest
presentation, company celebration presentation, etc.
Presentation is not easy but is not impossible to do.
⮚Presentation aims at winning the attention of the audience
and making the audience accept your explanation.
⮚Prior to your presentation, you need to analyze some
 factors:
1) who are your audience will be?
2) what are their economic status is?
3) what are their social background come from? and
4) what are they really need.
After you gather enough information about your audiences,
then you should decide how you are going to deliver your
message
Next, the presentation delivery,

a. Delivery often comes first before the content.

 b. The audiences are not interested in what you are saying, but in
what they are going to get.
c. Don't make them feel as if they were wasting time to listen to a
presentation that goes around the bush.
d. Remember that your presentation must be clear, to the point,
and put stress on the advantages of the audiences, and never
show you are trying to bring them to your end.
e. Especially in a sales presentation, make sure that you are there to
give them superior value rather than to take their money.
As well as thinking about the organization and content of a presentation, it
is important to think about how you will give your presentation (delivery).
Delivery consists of eye contact, posture, and voice

a. Eye contact, there are some thing you need to know:

 ⮚It is better to memorize a presentation
⮚Eye contact involves the audience with the speaker
b. Posture, for posture there are:
⮚Using gestures in a presentation is good
⮚It is important to appear relaxed during presentation
⮚You should not turn your back to the audience when describing visual
aids
c. Voice, consist of:
i. Volume.
⮚ Your voice should be loud enough so that everyone can hear you.
⮚ Talking to your audience and not to your notes or visual aids will help
people hear you.
ii. Speed.
 ⮚ Speak with speed “too quick” or fast in a presentation is not
allowed ⮚ People will fall asleep if you speak slowly
⮚ A comfortable speed for an audience of non-native speakers is around
90 words per minute and for native speakers around 110-120 words per
minute.
iii. Variety.
⮚ Consistence and flat intonation of your voice during your
presentation will make audiences get uninterested
⮚ Changing the speed, volume and intonation of your voice
during the presentation will make your presentation easier to
understand and more interesting to listen
Answer these questions based on the explanation above:

1. What is the aim of a presentation?

2. Before you do a presentation, mention the factors that you
have to analyze
3. What are the presentation delivery consist of? 4. What
you have to do if you want the audience to have interest
in your presentation?
5. Mention the comfortable speed so the audience can
understand you presentation!