4. Know your audience well before you plan to present
Visit the location of where you will be presenting prior to the set date
Organize your presentation to include comprehensive information, fun attributes,
visuals and reference materials
Practice your presentation well beforehand to get your timing concrete while
leaving time for question/answer, group activities and one on one conversations
Plan your attire to be professional and welcoming
5. Daniel Pink discusses Autonomy, Mastery & Purpose in such an
engaging manner – Let’s Watch!!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdzHgN7_Hs8
Mark Sanborn answers the questions “Can a business Speaker by
Funny? - Let’s Watch!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS0mJibMnGo
Simon Sinek teaches us to Love our Work – Let’s Watch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDIZS4IQlQk
6. Do you have fears of speaking in front of others?
Be confident in your ability to lead and guide others through your
presentation
Mixing up your presentation allows for movement and freedom, you
don’t need to be stationary
Take deep breaths
Have water available to sip on if necessary
Don’t find one focal point, you have to make eye contact
Believe that what you have to present is important and informative
Believe that YOU CAN DO THIS!!!!
7. Tell a story, but tell your story with so much enthusiasm that your
audience is on hanging on the edge of their seat
Move
Dance
Speak clearly and with intention
Interact, move around with the audience
Get your audience to move around with you
Build a rapport with the audience
8. Use technology and visuals to your advantage
Make sure that the presentation you develop is engaging and does not
take up the entire time of your presentatio
Use a clicker to move the slides and so you don’t have to tap the space
bar
Make sure your content is easily understood and that your text is in a
basic font, but script or anything fancy
Create hyperlinks so that you can easily navigate to any browsing you
feel is pertinent
9.
10. REFERENCES
Guffey, M., & Loewy, D. (2011). Eight Steps in Making a Powerful Multimedia Presentation - Business
Communication: Process and Product (7th Edition). Independence, KY: Cengage Learning.
Mitchell, O. (2014). How to go from good presenter to great presenter. Retrieved from:
http://www.speakingaboutpresenting.com/delivery/how-to-go-from-good-presenter-to-great-
presenter/
Rein, S. (2010). Three Keys to Giving Great Presentations. Retrieved from:
http://www.forbes.com/2010/10/21/public-speaking-selling-leadership-sales-rein.html
Russel, W. (2014) 10 Tips on Becoming a Better Presenter, Improve Your Presentation Skills and Be a
Better Presenter. Retrieved from:
http://presentationsoft.about.com/od/powerpointinbusiness/tp/071231resolutions.htm
Editor's Notes
It is important to understand the steps that need to be taken in order for a presentation to be successful. For the purpose of explaining the steps, we will pretend that you have a plan to present a new instructional technique to assist massage students in their client consultations for best massage therapy practices. The presentation is to be held at the local University and all local massage therapy students have the opportunity to attend. The expected audience will be around 100 people, both female and males. It is important that you research the massage therapy field, gain an understanding of massage therapy students so you will have an idea of how best to communicate with them and in a diverse manner. Visit the University well ahead of time to familiarize yourself with the surroundings and gain knowledge of the lighting, the technical equipment available for use, etc. As you begin to organization your presentation, you will need to research the best techniques for client consultations for a massage therapist. Develop a handout or booklet that guests of the presentation can have when they arrive and can follow your presentation with or that they can leave with once the presentation is complete (Russel, W. 2014). Be ready to have fun, get a lot of rest so your energy level is high. Prepare visuals, if you are going to use a presentation software, be sure to make it fun. Only leave the slide open for a minimal amount of time, you don’t want your audience getting bored or drifting off. You can even turn off the slideshow screen by tapping B on the keyboard and press W to get the screen back up. Use graphics, youtube links, videos, any stimulation to keep the presentation fun, exciting and educational. It is important that you practice your presentation by speaking aloud to make sure your timing isnt too fast or too slow and that enough time is left for group participation, question and answers and one on one conversation. (Guffey, M., & Loewy, D. 2011).
It is scary to imagine speaking for the first time in front of one person much less fifty or one hundred people. You can feel as though you will fail, that you will stutter, that you may forget what you are suppose to be discussing. By learning the tips presented here, you will walk away more confident and have the skills you need in order to deliver an effective presentation that will leave your audience wanting more. (Rein, S. 2010)
Becoming a great presenter isn’t a task that cannot be achieved. Knowing what you want to get across to your audience and knowing the “take aways” that you are wanting them to leave with is the two most important things to remember. The point of mixing things up is to get you away from standing behind a podium, or staying in one spot on a stage and actually moving around. Getting the audience engaged. Playing with them, laughing, making sure they remember every word you are saying and leaving them not knowing that 90 minutes has passed and that they have truly learned from you. (Mitchell, O. 2014).
Using a presentation assistant for your presentation is smart and important to do, but just make sure that you are are using all the necessary technical equipment that you can in order for the presentation to start and end smoothly without bumps in the middle. Also, you will want to test the presentation well before the day of your presentation. (Guffey, M., & Loewy, D. 2011).
