1. Presentation Skills
Making Presentations With Confidence and Power
Presenter
WILLIE JOHNSON
Performance Development Consultant

2. Communication is your lifeblood!
The key to your success !!
Everything flows from it and is
nourished by it.

3. Educational Objective
To Provide A Clearer Understanding On:
• Fearlessly Speaking
• Organizing Great Presentations
• Delivering Presentations With Pizzazz

4. Part 1: Fearlessly Speaking:
Taming Fear & Conquering Nervousness
• This is My Room
• Be Prepared
• Know Subject
• Know Audience
• “I Can” Attitude
• Audience Rapport

5. Part 1: Fearlessly Speaking:
“Summary”
• Preparation – Focus
Attitude –Audience
Rapport
• The Fear Is Within
You. Make It Work
To Your
Advantage!

6. Fearlessly Speaking
1. Be Thoroughly Prepared! (preparation)
* Know Your Subject *
If It Is Worth Doing
It Is Worth Doing Right!
2. Know Your Audience (focus)
Why are they here - Who are they - What do they know
Attitude on subject
Purpose of presentation (in their eyes)

7. Fearlessly Speaking
3. Develop The “I Can” Attitude
Fear: often a result of an attitude problem:
the “I can’t” attitude.
4. Audience Rapport and
Involvement
Public speaking: two-way conversation

8. Fearlessly Speaking
Summary
Preparation – Focus – Attitude & Audience
Rapport need your attention to overcome
the fear of public-speaking.
The Fear Is Within You.
Make It Work To Your Advantage!

9. Part 2: Organization
** Be Logical **
• Introduction
– Tell them what you’re
going to tell them
– Learning Objectives
– Icebreakers
• Body
– Tell them your facts/Case
– Weave in stories & humor
• Close
– Tell them what you told
them
– Summary / Q&A

10. “6” Steps
To A Winning Presentation
• Define Objectives
• Design Close
• Create Opening
• Outline Body
– Add Spice
– Visual Aids
• Tailor To Audience
• Practice

11. Part 3: Putting It All
Together
Delivering With
Pizzazz!!

12. First Things First:
“Establish Rapport”
• Smile and Show
Enthusiasm
• Topic and Title
• Establish Credibility
• Importance of this topic
to this audience
(shows respect)

13. Seize Attention
• It’s not what you say,
it’s how you say it.
• It’s not what you do,
it’s how you do it.
• It’s how you look,
when you say it and
do it.

14. Deliver A Strong Close!
• Summarize
• Ask For Agreement
• Ask For Action
• NOTE:
– Memorize your
close!!

15. In Conclusion: Be Knowledgeable
Be Yourself - Be A “Speaker”
• Speak from heart
• Prepare your best
• Entice the audience
• Acknowledge the audience
• Kinetics are essential
• Enliven speech
• Reconcile topic & purpose
• Speak, speak, speak