The document provides tips for improving presentation skills, including understanding the difference between technique and skills, how to structure a presentation effectively using models like the Barber Minto pyramid, and how to use techniques like pausing, eye contact, and engaging visual aids to keep the audience engaged. It also outlines key principles for public speaking like building trust, maintaining a lively pace, and focusing on the listener's experience over the speaker's delivery.

1. Presentation Skills
Nov 12, 2011
Share the notes taken from Connect Communications
Presentation Skills
Instructor: Tony Ngo
www.connectcommunication.com

2. Content
1. Underlying Principles
2. Structure & Content
3. Visual Aids

3. Underlying Principles
“技巧” vs “技能” Technique Vs Skills

4. Presentation Aspects
1. Knowledge
2. Preparation
3. Delivery
 “Fail to prepare” Vs “Prepare to fail”

5. Two Aims in Presentation
1. Get message across
2. Get Personality across = Gain Trust
Tool: video clip; 霍震庭, 奧運馬術
presentation
Tool#2: prepare script x 3 – role play

6. Presentation Components
1. Pace
2. Pause
3. Eye-contact
4. Body language
5. Energy/Passion

7. Presentation Components
1. Pace
 Rate of words: English presentation, 100
words in a minute
 Fast>slow= energy/passion
 If one min (30-40 words) = slow
 Tool: Video clip, an Indian reporter (worst
reporter) speak to fast on TV
 First Pause (purpose: get trust) + 2nd Pause
(purpose: get ppl “think”)
 The BIGGER the point, “The BIGGER the
PAUSE”.
3-4
 Pattern: P1
words
P2
1 to 2
sec Techinque: BITE

8. Presentation Components
1. Pace
2. Pause
 Rate of ideas
 Principle #1 “No body can think and listen at the same
time”.
 Technique
 Technique#1: BITE
 Principle#2 “Conversation are driven by listeners, not
speakers.
 Tool: use 2 pictures for comparison, picture#1: Boring
 Picture#2: Concentration
 Review video taking from Students, provide feedbacks.

9. Presentation Components
15-16 words “Max”
2. Pause
 Technique #2: Eye-scan
P1 P2
 Icon leader for Eye-scan, Ronald
Regan, the Greater Communicator
 Pattern: ??
 Tool: 董健華的講稿 (BITE +Eye-scan)
 Video Clip: Obama speech; speech AIM:
“Change”
 When you are presentation, what’s your
client want to know?
 Obama speech: show “Confident”

10. Structure & Content
1. Barber Minto – Pyramid (Top-down
approach)
2. Objectives: Crystalise your
thought, up-front loading
3. Elevator pitch

11. Structure & Content
1. Model One Conclusion & Key
(15-16 mins) Message
(2-3 mins)
Support
1 2 (11-12 mins)
3
Re-cap/Call for Actions
(1 mins)

12. Structure & Content
Show data, statistics,
fact
Model #2
(Not preferred) Value Proposition
Client “What does it means
to YOU?”

13. How to start a presentation?
1. Quote
2. Metaphor/similarities (隱喻)
3. Poems

14. How to start a presentation?
“Hook”
Situation (S)
Forceful
Computation (C)
Direct
Question (Q) Influence
Answer (A)

15. Visual Aids
What are the Do’s & Don’ts ?
1. Tell “then” Show - for complex theory
2. “Just make the cut”
3. Bullet points, show “one-by-one”
 Video-clip: Steve Jobs presentation in 1997 “I-
phone”
 3 mins presentation
 “Less is more”

16. 8 Golden rules for Public
Speaking
1. Be conversational – be yourself
2. Build trust first, message second
3. First pause. Think before you speak – say what you
mean, mean what you say
4. Second pause – make it look important, give everyone
time to think, to remember
5. Engage people with eye contact when you pause
6. Keep a lively rate of words – maintain energy and
vitality
7. Conversations are driven by listeners, not speakers
8. No-one can think and listen at the same time
“Communication takes place in the mind of the listener, not
the speaker.” – Peter Drucker