The document provides tips for giving effective presentations. It discusses conquering nerves, developing strong communication skills, and delivering presentations with confidence. It emphasizes the importance of presentation skills for career success. It then outlines the key steps to prepare and deliver a successful presentation: plan by understanding your audience and purpose; prepare by researching your topic and developing visual aids; practice your delivery style and rehearse; and finally, present while engaging the audience. Mastering these steps can help one communicate facts and ideas effectively through presentations.

1. Making Great Presentations
 Conquer nerves
and stage fright
 Master powerful
communication
skills
 Deliver
presentations
with confidence
and style

2. However much you are educated, if
you cannot present facts and figures
well you have a big problem at hand.
 Many employees today look for
people who could communicate
well
 As a result, developing
presentation skills has become
an important part of any course
of study.
 Marks are given for
presentations in the Universities

3.  Rough to smooth

4. 4 Ps in presentations
 Plan
 Prepare
 Practice
 Present

5. Side talk

6. Plan
 Understand the audience
 Background
 Knowledge
 Experience
 Needs
 Goals

7. Plan…
Find out the purpose of your talk
Is it to
 Inform
 Persuade
 Motivate to action
 Sell
 Teach
 Train

8. Plan…
Draw up a logical framework
 Define the topic
 Current status
 Issues and core problems
 Possible answers/ alternatives
 Challenges
 Action Plan

9. Plan….
Time
 How much of time devoted to my
presentation ( depth of the talk
depends on the time)
 If some one has already taken
portion of time, how do you manage
with the available time
 How to use the time effectively on
different sub topics. Some times
more time used for background
factors than the topic in issue
 Not to exceed the time limit. Keep
your presentation to the point.

10. Side talk

11. Prepare
 How much of information I have
 Researching the subject
 Where to get information
 Find out or develop a good
opening and concluding remark
 File the information in an
accessible storage
 If electronic storage is used at
least store in two mediums

12. Prepare….
Process data and get only the
relevant in right quantities in
presentable manner
 Graphs
 Pictures
 Diagrams
 Percentages
 Ratios
 Flow charts
 Analysis
 Be creative

13. How to prepare slides
 Use less than six sentences in
one slide
 Have only appropriate graphs,
figures and pictures
 Use background colours that
would not blur the main
message
 Use only appropriate animation
on slides
 Be brief on slides and explain

20. Side talk

21. Throw a challenge to the audience
•Smoking Reduces
weight
•Say how????

22. Getting Prepared

23. Prepare….
 Use only the information that
you are going to cite in the
presentation in slides
 If you use foreign words,
accronyms explain them
 Jargon could be used only if
audience know about it.

24. Get ready for the worse
 There could be a electricity failure
 The Multi media may not work
 Computer may not work
 Your CD containing your presentation may
not read or go blank
 Slide Projector lamp may burst
 Handouts may not come in time
Answer :
In addition to electronic stuff have rough
sketch. That could save your day.

25. Side talk

26. Practice
 Find out the style that suits your
personality and the situation
 Adapt to the situation depending on
the circumstances
 The style depends largely on the
way you normally talk
 Do not present as if you are reading
a book or paper without any
emphasis on punctuations
 Tell it like a story- remember
Seeyage Katha “ ekaparatama
Walahek Penna” Use tone.
 Speak with a moderate speed
 Never use artificial accent

27. Practice about how to use
your body language
Using your hands
 invite the audience
accept your point by
having your palms
upwards
 Avoid closing your
hands firmly as this can
be a sign of
aggressiveness
 Avoid rubbing your
hands – sign of

28.  Avoid pointing one finger at
audience- sign of warning
 Do not put your hands in
the pocket when
presenting

29. Your mobile phone
 If possible say at the beginning
“ Oh I am going to off this as it
may disturb all of us” This will
send a message to the audience
also to off the phone or at least
put on the vibration mode
 Ensure that your phone is off.
( not even vibration)
 Never answer the phone

30. Using facial expression and eye
brow
 Use your eye brows to articulate
your feelings
 Move your head around and
look people in the eye. Do not
focus only on one person, few or
one side of the audience.
 Do not always direct your talk to
the head table or the leader or
guest
 Look at people who do not give

31. Controlling your physical and
psychological status
 Move around if possible
 Have an active outlook
 Face the audience always rather
than the board or the screen behind
you
 Do not get emotional
 Do not get irritated with the
audience
 Do not get into extremes
 Admit your mistakes and sincerely
thank for pointing out.

32. Involve the audience
 Show you are interested in
audience
 Ask them to comment
 Ask them few easy questions
 Crack a decent joke
 Give a compliment to
volunteers who answer your
questions
 Give a handout

33. Judge the status of the
audience while you are talking
 Are they with you ( facial
expression, nodding, smiling)
 Are they sleeping, yawning or
doing some other thing while you
are talking
 Are they talking with each other
while you are talking
 Are they talking over the mobile
or playing games or sending
SMS’s
 Are they looking disappointed

34. How to draw attention of the
disinterest
 Ask questions
 Say that no one is going to
sleep
 Give a point to discuss with the
person seated to next
 Say a word in half and let the
audience complete
 Bring in a funny photo/ joke

36. Develop your language
 You must use the appropriate word
that the audience can understand
 Never use difficult words when
simple words are there
 Do not use slang ( wanna , gonna)
 Avoid fillers- ah, em, er, well,
basically, you know, like, kind of, of
course, more or less, by the way,
don’t you know etc.
 Do not worry to use Sinhalese or
Tamil words or phrases when you
are giving a talk in English in Sri

37. Side talk

38. Dress Appropriately
 Attention is on you- so dress
suitably
 Formal- Lounge
 Informal- Smart Casual
 Never over dress with too much
of Jewellery, make up etc.

39. Rehearse
 Stand in front of a mirror and present
yourself
 Repeat it several times until you rectify
your errors and build confidence
 Make the presentation in front of a
friend
 Ask him to make a candid evaluation
 Try and video your talk and see how
you perform
 More you practice more you do well.

40. Visualise
ALLSay
What ?

41. “Ela Kiri”

42. “That’s Great”