3. Introduction
In this presentation we will know about How to Make
Effective Oral presentations, their Characteristics
which are very helpful, the planning which is carried
out for the Making Effective Oral presentations and in
last some useful tips for Delivering an Effective Oral
Presentations.
4. Characteristics of an Effective Oral
Presentations
• Confidence
• Passion
• Be Yourself
• Voice Modulations
• Keep it Short and Sweet
• Connect with your Audience
• Paint a Picture Through Storytelling
• Repetition
5. Confidence
• A highly confident presentator
is viewed as being more accurate,
competent, credible, intelligent,
knowledgeable, likable, and
believable than the less
confident uncertain presentator.
• When it comes to public
speaking, confidence is key (not
the only key mind you). When
speaking in public, it’s only
natural to be nervous.
6. Passion
• In order to really communicate to
people through presentation, you
need to have passion about your
subject. Without passion, your
speech is meaningless.
• You need to exude a level of
sincerity in your emotion when
communicating to your audience
if you want them to be moved by
your presentation.
7. Be Yourself
• You don’t have to be someone else on stage, all you
have to do is just be yourself.
• Sometimes, no matter how much you believe in your
message or how well you’ve rehearsed, if you don’t act
like yourself in front of the group, your audience may
view your speech as insincere or calculated.
8. Voice Modulations
• If you want to be more engaging as
a speaker, then avoid talking in a
tone that seems too well rehearsed,
but you still want to take the speed
and inflection of your delivery into
account when you practice your
speech.
• To practice proper cadence, record
yourself giving your speech and
listen to it later. You’ll be able to tell
exactly when and where you start to
sound inauthentic.
9. Keep it Short and Sweet
• If you’re only given 30 minutes to give a speech, don’t
force yourself to fill the entire time allotted.
• Say what you need to say and use any remaining time
for questions or to let your audience out a little early.
• The main purpose of delivering a speech is to attempt
to get your point across, and that might not require a
whole hour.
10. Connect with your Audience
• A presentation is just like a conversation,
which means you need to communicate
your message to someone else.
• In this sense, there is no difference
between talking to one person or a
thousand.
• While you’re speaking people are likely on
their phones, tablets, or laptops, reading
emails, surfing the web, researching who
you are, or maybe taking notes on your
speech. It’s your job to make them put
their devices down and pay attention to
what you have to say.
11. Paint a Picture Through Storytelling
• One of the best ways to really
engage your audience is by
becoming a good storyteller.
• By employing context into your
speech for your audience to
connect with, you’re creating an
easy to listen to the atmosphere in
which you are not simply shoving
information at them in the hopes
that they’ll retain that information.
12. Repetition
• Repetition can help ensure your audience takes the
main points away from your presentation.
• It promotes clarity and helps to encourage acceptance
of an idea.
• In order to employ repetition in your presentations,
determine what you want your audience to take away
from your speech. Say it. Say it again.
And then say it a third time just in case anyone missed
it the first couple of times.
13. Planning an Effective Oral
Presentations
• Analyze your listeners & purpose.
• Analyze your Speaking Situation.
• Research your topic.
• Outline your Presentation.
• Prepare Your visuals.
14. Analyze your listeners & purpose
• Analyzing your audience will help you discover
information that you can use to build common ground
between you and the members of your audience.
• A key characteristic in public speaking situations is the
unequal distribution of speaking time between the
speaker and the audience.
15. Analyze your Speaking Situation
• When people become audience members in a speech
situation, they bring with them expectations about the
occasion, topic, and speaker.
• Violating audience expectations can have a negative
impact on the effectiveness of the speech. Imagine that
a local politician is asked to speak at the memorial
service for a beloved former mayor.
• The audience will expect the politician’s speech to
praise the life and career of the deceased.
16. Research your topic
• Your first step in writing a research paper is the same
as your first step in any writing task is to select a
suitable subject, preferably one you are curious about.
• Whether you are assigned a topic or choose your own,
don’t rush off to the library or log onto the Internet
right away.
• A little preparation up front will save you a lot of time
and possibly much grief later on.
17. Outline your Presentation
• The first step in creating the outline is to decide on the
goal of your presentation.
• Next, analyze your audience to determine what the
starting point is.
• Once you have the goal and audience analysis done,
you can then start to plan your content.
19. Prepare Your visuals
• Well constructed visuals can
make your presentation more
exciting, effective and
memorable.
• Your visual presentation
should emphasize the most
important points and ideas of
your oral presentation.
• Use the visuals to reinforce,
clarify, illustrate or highlight
individual points.
20. Delivering an Effective Oral
Presentations
• Keep your listeners oriented
• Manage your visuals
• Manage your body language
• Manage your listener’s questions
21. Keep your listeners oriented
• Try to present slides at the rate of around one slide a
minute.
• If you talk too much, you will lose your audience’s
attention.
• You should avoid reading the wording on the slides,
but instead talk around the content on them.
22. Manage your visuals
• Maintain eye contact with the audience and
remember to smile and pause after each comment,
giving your nerves time to settle.
• Speak slowly and concisely, highlighting key points.
23. Manage your body language
• When it comes to presentations, body language has the power to
help us succeed or fail.
• The first and most obvious thing to remember is to make sure
that you are using your face at all.
• Giving a presentation with a blank face, without any particular
facial expression is like speaking in a monotone – no matter how
great your content is, your audience will not be engaged.
• Even some simple steps from the outset, such as opening your
eyes wider, raising your eyebrows a little, and smiling, can make a
huge difference in setting the tone for your presentation.
24. Manage your listener’s questions
• After you present, ask if anyone has any
questions for you.
• If asked a question, firstly thank the
audience member, then repeat what they
have asked to the rest of the listeners in
case they didn’t hear the first time.
• Keep your answers short and succinct, and
if unsure say that the questioner has raised
a good point and that you will have to look
into it further.
