Effective presentation skills require confidence, engagement with the audience, and knowledge of the audience. Presenters should develop an interesting, yet simple presentation without lecturing. They should anticipate questions and use visual aids to enhance their message. With practice and preparation, presentation skills can boost a presenter's confidence and ability to influence their audience through clear communication and body language.

2. Effective
Presentation Skills
By
Allah Dad Khan

30. Confidence is the Key
1. Before anything, develop a certain degree of confidence about your own
abilities. Don’t go out there with the feeling that everyone is your enemy
and is just waiting to rip you apart.
2. You can also build a certain degree of confidence by being well prepared
for the presentation. Don’t leave any facet out, and make it a point to
have a script that is tightly edited. Even if you don’t make all the
information at your disposal, a part of the presentation, make sure that
you have an in-depth understanding of the topic.

31. Be Engaging and Do Not Lecture
1. Develop an interesting presentation. This is a significant aspect of
developing presentation skills. Learn to interact with your audience
while giving a presentation. Don’t just stand and dump your data on
them.
2. Be compelling enough, so that the people hear your presentation,
without giving you a bored look or without showing disinterest in the
presentation. It’s important to understand that, you don’t know more
than the audience, and even if you think you do, you are giving the
presentation for their benefit and not yours.

32. Knowing Your Audience
1. Make it a point to know your audience. Meaning, you must know the
basic characteristics of the audience. You must also know the number of
senior people that would be a part of the audience, or what would be
the initial attitude of the people vis-à-vis the topic.
2. If the people in front of you are intelligent and well-informed, you must
be prepared accordingly and try to mold your presentation skills
accordingly. Each presentation is different, and needs a few common skill
sets in conjunction with skill sets that have been developed for a
particular audience.

33. Keep it Short and Simple
1. Don’t go in for a lengthy presentation. A simple and short presentation
does not mean a presentation that falls short of expectations or does not
provide important information.
2. If you try and integrate simplicity, you will develop an orderliness, and
will also know what to select and in what amount. You will also become
better organized, and not meander away from the topic

34. Anticipation
1. You can develop presentation skills by learning to anticipate any
eventuality, especially with respect to the questions asked. If you do not
learn to expect the unexpected, you might just lose your credibility in
the process.
2. Always identify the questions or problems that your might face, and
form an adequate response for the same.

35. How Presentation
Skills Influence Your
Audience?

36. Presentation Skills
Presentation skills are highly essential to communicate your message to
your listener. These skills refer to the way you express your thoughts. To
gain the attraction of your listeners, the way your present should be
pleasing and convincing. You many have a well-written material in your
hands but the usefulness of the information can be understood only if you
deliver it well. Many people fail to communicate well because of the lack
of presentation skills.

37. Presentation Skills
1. The basic aspect of good presentation is talking in a clear voice.
2. A person is said to have good presentation skills if his voice is audible
and sounds confident.
3. The verbal communication is an essential part of good presentation.
4. The non verbal communication is also equally important.
5. This type of communication refers to the gestures and the body
language used by the speaker.
6. Your body language actually shows your attitude. When you tremble and
if you are afraid to speak in the public, it will be evident from your
trembling legs and sweating palms.
7. Essential presentation skills also include the way you walk and behave.
Your dressing should also be appropriate depending on the occasion you
speak. Wearing unmatched clothing is referred to as bad appearance.

38. • The presentation skills do not end with your appearance
and your behavior on stage. The visual aids you chose to
use add beauty and professionalism to your presentation.
Choosing the right type of visual aids that are suitable for
the speech as well as the audience is also dependent on
the speaker’s presentation skills. PowerPoint is the
common visual aid that is used in most of the
presentations. You can even use videos and photos when
they match the topic you are actually presenting. Practice
makes a presentation perfect. Before making the
presentation, it is better to rehearse with all the visual aids.
This will add on to your presentation skill and you can make
corrections if there are any errors in them.

39. Presentation Skills
When the audience leaves the hall after listening to your presentation,
they must remember the key points, which you focused. You have to show
all your presentation skills so that your audience will not forget the key
points. There are many speakers who speak well and present well but
finally the audience will not remember what they had spoken. This means
that the speaker lacks the presentation skill or he has overlooked the
concept of preparation

40. Presentation Skills
Though preparation and practice can boost your presentation skills, your
performance on the stage will determine your success. You must be
optimistic but you must be able to handle situations that go out of your
hands. When you use visual aids for enhancing your presentation, you
must be ready to handle the last minute worries on stage. Your software
may not work or the equipment on the stage may be faulty. In any
circumstance, you should not lose your confidence. Even under stressful
conditions like the above examples, if you have presentation skills, you can
shine as a great speaker and be adored by your listeners.

41. How to develop
effective
presentation skills

42. Basic principles of presentation skills
• Plan your presentation well
• If you are giving a business presentation in front of a large audience, it
makes good sense to plan your topic well before hand.
• Make sure you have a nice beginning to the discussion. Think how you will
approach the subject and decide the central theme of your discussion.
• Apart from that, you need to have a good conclusion to the topic at the
end.

43. Interact with your audience
It is important for you to understand the kind of audience that you are
addressing in the first place. You need to attract the attention of the
audience at all times to keep them interested throughout the entire
discussion. If the discussion is on a serious issue, you could narrate some
personal incidents or share experiences by involving the audience.

44. Use powerful visual aids
Visual aids are one of the most important elements of any presentation.
They should be well designed to achieve a perfect balance of visual
appeal. PowerPoint slides, transparencies, white board, handouts are
some of the visual aids that can be used while giving presentations to
make it more interesting.

45. Make proper use of body language
Body language conveys a lot of meaning to the audience. You need to
maintain a good eye contact with proper gestures and hand movements
while speaking to the audience. A positive body language helps you to
connect with the audience almost instantly. At the same time, you need to
maintain a good posture while you are delivering a presentation. The
proper use of the right facial expressions including hand and body
movements matter a lot during a presentation.

46. Advantages of Presentation Skills Training
Programs
1. They help overcome the initial fear of facing people confidently and allow them to perform to
their potential
2. Improves body language and eye contact with people and teaches the use of right postures to
captivate the listeners
3. Makes them realize and understand the audience better with control that enables to reach out to
the audience better.
4. Listeners are made to participate more in the discussion and thereby increase the interaction and
success rate exponentially
5. Enables use of modern communication tools like slides, power point presentation and visual aids
which have more lasting impression on the viewers than mere talk. Studies have clearly pointed
out the merits of using visual aids in addition to general talk.
6. Bargaining and persuasive skills will be improved leaps and bounds that help in getting out of
tricky situations well.
7. Increases Ability to face people either in person or in groups well and mentally prepares in
advance to face the volley of questions posed by the group
8. Enhances the personal touch and the actual posturing at first sight makes the audience feel awe
and enthralls them to listen to the presentation in rapt attention.