Sight and Sound

Appeal
A Presentation Skills Workshop

Lead, Engage, Align, Do! (LEAD)

 Well designed Effective Training
Training progran Style Effective Training
Program

Using principles of adult learning

• Define Objective
• Analyze Audience
• Plan Your Design
• Collect Materials to Illustrate Points
• Construct Your Presentation
• Choose Your Visual Aids
• Practice! Practice! Practice!
• Planned

• Organized

• Uses visual aids

• Tailored for a specific audience

• Posture

• Movement

• Gesture

• Eye contact

• Voice

• Appearance
• Head and facial expression

• Shoulder and chest

• Hands and hips

• Legs and feet

• IDEAL
stable head, alive, facial expression
consistent with message

• BAD HABITS
bowed, rotating, moving sideways,
always nodding, detached
• IDEAL
chest out, stable shoulder

• BAD HABITS
deflated chest, shoulders slumped,
rotating, up and down
movements, forward and
backward movements
• Focus on one participant at a time

• One complete thought, sentence

• At least 5 seconds

• Move to another participant

• Select at random

• Balance distribution

• Continue making eye contact

• IDEAL
legs stable and in balanced
position, feet stable

• BAD HABITS
shaking leg(s), weight balance
on one leg, up and down
movement, “dancing”
• They clarify and support your
words
• They dramatize your ideas
• They lend emphasis and vitality to
your words
• They help dissipate your nervous
tension
• They function as visual aids
• They stimulate audience
participation
• They are highly visible
• “Cluster look”
• Scanning quickly
• The “sideways” glance
• Blinking very fast
• Looking at
The ceiling
The floor
One participant only
One side only
• Caring

• Passion!

• Confidence

Subject matter

Presentation skills

Handling difficult participants and

questions
• IDEAL
Hips and hands stable. Hands in side
position.

• BAD HABITS
Hips rotating, side movements, forward
and backward movements; Hands: the
“butterfly”, scratching, finger
movements, the “cowboy”, the “fig
leaf”, “on the draw”
• 32% Talking

• 15% Reading

• 11% Writing

• 42% Listening
• SIGHT 87.0 %
• HEARING 7.0 %
• SMELL 3.5 %
• TOUCH 1.5 %
• TASTE 1.0 %

MAXIMIZE USE OF
ALL SENSES!
• Use dark colors for main ideas, other colors for emphasis

• Roll and flip

• Plan out what and where you will write as part of the
design process
• Use a new page for each new thought, idea, concept

• “Strip tease” prepared charts

• Introduce your slide.

• Ensure point is properly understood before moving on to the

next slide
• Stand on the opposite/front of the lamp (if using non mounted
projector)
• Put off/cover/ freeze lamp if not in use

• Use a pointer/ pen/ hand for emphasis

• “Strip tease”
• Avoid excesses

• Use a visual to avoid stiffness

• Control self by holding the board

• Use definitive gestures

• Avoid handling something in your hands. Hold something
solid instead, eg. table or chair
• Handle your voice tremors

Breathe deeply10x

Avoid non words like “ehem”, “ah”, “mmm”

• Introduce your self and let them introduce themselves
• Put your notes on cue cards

• Print letters big enough to read even from afar

• Print lightly with a pencil on your comfortable side of the

easel paper
• Print on short strips of paper
• To increase pace, use less examples and
pauses
• To slow down pace, use more examples
and pauses