Presentations are the most common form of communication when we want to convey our ideas or

information with a large group of audience.

ELEMENTS OF PRESENTATION

To give a successful presentation you need to understand these four basic elements

A strong presentation goes a long way towards advancing your career, it helps you project confidence and
competence and also impresses your audience.

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Confidence
One of the most important elements of successful presentation is confidence and panic monkey is a well
known term for killing your confidence.

Panic Monkey is a term used to describe someone who suffers from panic disorder and anxiety, but is self
aware, it hinders you to give your best performance.

Few helpers that you can use in order to overcome glossophobia:

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Structure

It is the backbone of your presentation, it helps the audience to understand the content and create a better
flow of your presentation.

Learning How to Structure your Presentation

THE MATH OF PRESENTATIONS

We are often stuck over the quantity of content we should include in our slide, a simple formula which can
help us for the same is given below

A GOOD MESSAGE ​includes three parts which helps in creating effective content for your presentation

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Design
It is one of the major takeaways from your presentation as a picture speaks more than words
Given below are few instructions to create your presentation:

Delivery

Experienced presenters learn to communicate by using voice, gestures, visual aids and try to create a
comfortable environment.
A few of the tips to deliver effectively are:

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Storytelling

A story is a sequence of events that creates a sensory perception in the audience.

Storytelling is an art which helps to capture people’s attention and retain the delivered information
for a longer period of time.

OSCRE​ framework of storytelling

Persuasion

Persuasion helps the speaker to convince the audience to accept his/her views and goals

AEIOUE framework used to persuade the audience

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