The document provides tips for giving effective presentations. It discusses the importance of strong openings that hook the audience through problems, amazing facts, or stories. Signposting is also important to guide the audience through the presentation when changing topics or directions. Common problems that can occur include getting facts wrong or structure incorrect, but survival tactics like apologizing and recapping can help address these issues.

1. Giving Presentations
Openings, Signposting, and Survival
Tactics
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2. Effective Openings
• The first three minutes of a presentation are the most
important.
• The speaker needs a ‘hook’, a simple technique for
getting attention.
• A good start makes the speaker feel confident.
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3. Effective Openings
• Three ways of ‘hooking’ your audience:
– Give them a problem to think about.
– Give them some amazing facts.
– Give them a story or a personal anecdote.
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4. Effective Openings
• Problem Technique
1. Suppose ……………………………………
How would you ……………………………
2. Have you ever wondered why it is that …..?
You have? Well, if I could show you ………
….. would you be interested?
3. How many people here this morning ……..?
Well, imagine ………………………………
….. Do you think that is possible?
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5. Effective Openings
• Amazing Facts Technique
1. Did you know that ………………………..?
2. According to the latest study, ………..….,
3. Statistics show that ………………………..
4. I read somewhere the other day that ……
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6. Effective Openings
• Story/ Anecdote Technique
1. You know, ………………………………..
When I think about ……………………….
I’m reminded of …………………………..
2. Have you ever been in a situation where
…………….?
I remember when …………………………
It turned out ……………………………….
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7. Signposting
• What you say - the content - is more important than
anything else.
• Structure helps
• When moving to the next point or when changing
direction, tell the audience.
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8. Signposting
• Signposts to guide your audience through your
presentation:
To move on To expand on
To digress To go back
To recap
To conclude
To summarize
To turn to
To elaborate on
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9. Signposting
• Neat, short signposts are more effective.
• Keep it simple
OK. So ……………..
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10. Survival Tactics
• Common Problems
– Getting your facts wrong
– Getting the way you say something wrong
– Getting the structure of your talk wrong
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11. Survival Tactics
WHAT YOU THINK
I’ve got my facts wrong.
Too fast! Go back.
I’ve forgotten to say
something!
Too complicated! Make it
simple
WHAT YOU SAY
Sorry, what I meant is this ...
So, lets just recap on that.
Sorry, I should just
mention one thing.
So, basically, what I’m
saying is this …
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12. Survival Tactics
WHAT YOU THINK
I’m talking nonsense.
How do I say this in
English?
Wrong! Try again.
I’m running out of
time
WHAT YOU SAY
Sorry, perhaps I didn’t
make that quite clear.
Sorry, what’s the word/
expression?
Sorry, let me rephrase
that.
So, just to give you the
main points here.
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