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Presentation Skills
Presentation Skills
Presentation Skills
Some students drink deeply at the fountain of knowledge - others only gargle.
Anonymous
School of Health & Life Sciences
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Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life.
Chinese Proverb
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The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur Ward
School of Health & Life Sciences
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We retain: 10% of what we read 20% of what we hear 30% of what we see 50% of what we hear and say 90% of what we say and do.
School of Health & Life Sciences
Anonymous
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Causes of anxiety
fear of loss of control / memory, fight or flight mode, poor materials, lack of practice, no enthusiasm / mastery for subject, focus of attention.
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Effective Presentations control anxiety, audience centered, accomplishes learning outcomes, Interesting / relevant for audience, rewarding for you, conducted within time frame.
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Planning Your Presentation
1. Determine purpose, 2. Assess Your audience
success depends on your ability to connect with your audience, size, demographics, knowledge level, motivation.
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Planning Your Presentation
3. Plan space a. number of seats, b. seating arrangement, c. lighting, d. audio/visuals and equipment, e. distracters.
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Build Rapport
harmonious relationship audience members who trust you and feel that you care, start before you begin mingle, learn names, opportunity to connect with audience, good first Impression, people listen to people they like.
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Opening Your Presentation
introduce yourself why should they listen to you? get attention contextualise the topic, clear parameters, mind map get audience response why are they here?
School of Health & Life Sciences
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Main Points of Your Presentation Main Point-Transition-Main PointTransition-MainPoint.. Supporting Evidence Examples Feedback & Questions From Audience Attention to, and Focus on, Audience (Listening) School
of Health & Life Sciences
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Concluding Your Presentation Inform audience that youre about to close Revisit learning outcomes Summarize main points Something to remember or call-to-action Answer questions
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Presentation Style - 3 Elements
1. vocal techniques
loudness
pitch rate
pause
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Presentation Style - 3 Elements
2. body language
eye contact, gestures, posture
3. use of space
School of Health & Life Sciences
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5 Presentation tips
1. smile 2. breathe 3. water
4. notes
5. finish on or under time
Sound
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