Presentation Skills

Dr. Smita Dabholkar Singh

(Associate Professor, IMT Nagpur)
Add power to your presentation not just
slides..
Use of property
(flipcharts, posters, relevant items etc.)

Break from monotony

Topics to Cover..
1. Presentation Skills – Basics
2. 10-20-30 Rule
3. Effective Presentation - Dos and Don’ts
Basics of Presentation Skills
• Focus on your audience’s needs (WI3FM)
• Structure your presentation
• Keep it simple
• Less is more (1 Picture = 1,000 Words)
• How you say it, Matters – body language
• Effectiveness of communication lies with the speaker
• Tell a story, if possible your own
10-20-30 Rule

by Guy Kawasaki
Dos and Don’ts of Presentation
DOs
• Prepare yourself (rehearse, collect relevant info. about your project)
• Audience analysis (expectations, background, etc.)
• Convert descriptive headlines to headlines that sell
• Show benefits, not features
• Tell-Tell-Tell
• Elevator speech
• Use personal anecdotes
Dos and Don’ts of Presentation Contd..

DON’Ts
• Do not read from your slides
• Too much info. (technical, financial, product details)
• Too many colors and animations
• Not getting to your key idea/s quickly
• Do not speak in a monotonous voice / too low / too fast
• Do not use too much fillers (you know, well, ummm, alright, …)
 Presenting Data / Visuals
Age-wise Distribution of Employees 25-30 Not
10%
Yrs.
Enough
  Percent (%)
Too Many
More than 55 years 15 45-55 Yrs.
30%
Between 45 to 55 years 30 35-45 Yrs.
25%
Between 35 to 45 years 25
Between 30 to 35 years 20
55+ Yrs.
Between 25 to 30 years 10 15%
30-35 Yrs.
  20%

• Too many employees in the higher age bracket (45+ years)

• Not enough younger workforce in the organization
Age-wise Distribution of Employees (Years)

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Use few words
• Our long term vision is to get into the top 5 in paints sector at global
level and for this we need to expand steadily but regularly.
• Aim to become Top 5
• Paints sector
• Explore new markets internationally
Elevator Speech/ Elevator pitch
• Initiation and communicating seriousness and
urgency/Summary/ Introduction : Basic relevant information

• Proof/Problem : The issue / important features and sharing the

potential benefits.

• Future scope: What will you say which will make the listener
wanting to know more
Elevator Speech - Example
Your manager asks, “How’s are the new engineers who have
joined the Operations department performing?”

• Summary/ Introduction : They are fine with most of the jobs.

• Problem and potential benefit can be combined: We have had an
interaction with seven of them, will finish talking to all by Friday
and will submit the feedback and action plan to you by Saturday
evening.

• Creating future scope: Anything else Sir?

Thank You!