This document provides an overview of presentation skills. It discusses why presentation skills are important, such as improving results and benefiting audiences. It outlines a presentation skills agenda and covers preparing yourself through mind and emotion preparation. It identifies the four most important presentation skills to practice: eye contact, voice variety, body language, and target moving. Finally, it provides general advice for presentations, such as being prepared, keeping smiles, and having a powerful closing.

1. Presentation Skills
Hussein Al-Natsheh
June 23, 2012
http://www.slideshare.net/hnatsheh/presentation-skills-13428572

2. Presentation Skills
 What is presentation skills?
 Why it is important?

3. Why Presentation Skills?
1- Huge improvement of the results
that you will achieve as a
power presenter.
2- Add more of benefits to your
audience.
3- Increase the power of your
communication skills .
4- Increase your FUN while giving
presentations.

4. Presentation Skills Agenda
•FIRE-UP.
•Preparing yourself.
•Motivate basic emotions.
•Organizing your presentation.
•4 most important presentation skills.
•General Advices.

5. 4 levels of Presenting:
Weak
Good
Very good
Excellent
Which one you want to be??

6. Stages of Excellence
1- Unconscious Competence
2- Conscious Complemented
3- Conscious Incompetence
4- Unconscious Incompetence
Example: a person lives in desert and has never
seen a car. Then he go to the city and learn how
to drive one. And finally, he drives it professionally
without concentration.

7. The FIRE-UP System for Outstanding Presentation
 Propose a commitment and close with
connection
 Use their uniqueness to demonstrate a
solution
Integrity
 Educate, empower and entertain your
audience
 Remind your audience of their pain
 Inform your audience of your purposes
 Focus your audience's attention on you
Prepare Yourself

8. To be effective, your outcomes must be:
•Specific.
•Direct and summarized.
•Positive.
•Concentrated towards solving the
audience’s challenges
•Desired, Motivating.

9. Prepare yourself
Phase 1:
•Be an expert in the subject.
•Well prepare the content.
•Prepare the multimedia tools that will
empower the show.

10. Prepare yourself
Phase 2:
(Mind and emotion preparation)
•Optimal Performance Identity (OPI)
(by Mind).
Ex: I am a significant presenter I am giving
audience the required concentration, and I
can deliver information for them directly
and clearly.
•Optimal Performance Identity (OPI)
(by emotion)
Ex: I concern of audience and I make FUN,
I commitment and comfortable, I am
exited and strong.

11. You can motivate basic emotions of OPI by
the 3 basic motivating emotions:
Language & Physiology
Sub-modalities
Empowering
Beliefs

12. Physiology
It is the way you use your body language
EX: Self-confidant emotion
•Standing; strong and a little bit forward
sloping
•Breaths; comfort breathing to control your
emotions
•Stress/comfort; mixed, they generate each
other.
•Body-motion; strong one motivate feelings.
•Face-language; concentrate and comfort.

13. Language & Sub-modalities :
Encouraging Questions NOT Encouraging Questions
•What is my target? •Am I really well-
•Which points I prepared ?
should concentrate •What if I did not
on? succeed?
•How could I involve •Why do I feel all of
FUN? this stress?
•How I can make the •Why do not the
audience understand audience interactive
this point in a better with me?
way?

14. Beliefs :
Encouraging Beliefs NOT Encouraging Beliefs
•I am the best one in •I am not the best
that field. one in that field.
•I have an excellent •I do not have a good
knowledge of the knowledge of
content contents
•What I present is a •What I present add
wonderful chance for nothing to audience.
the audience.

15. Organizing your presentation:
Challenges Challenges
needs needs
Solutions Solutions
FIRE-UP
FIRE-UP
Ice Break Closing
Variety of your presentation contents is
very important

16. Effecting audience:
•Words  7%
•Voice variety  38%
•Body language  55%
Then, what you must concern in to start practice
yourself ?? …………………..

17. 4 Most Important Skills Need Practicing:
• Eye contact.
• Voice variety.
• Body language.
• Target moving.

18. General Advices in Presentations:
• Come early
• Be elegant
• Greeting
• Ice break
• Keep smiling
• Self-confident
• FUN
• Credibility and honest
• Preparation
• Use some refreshment techniques.
Ex:“please give attention to the next important point..”
or give an energizer exercise
• Subject continuity
• Time commitment and management
• Powerful closing

19. Preparation Exercise
 Collect information about your
colleague
 Self-preparation
(Language, Believes & Physical )
 Introduce each others to the
audience
 Quick feedback for the next trial

20. Practicing & Evaluating
(1-2) Minutes Presentation
Any Subject. FOCUS ON:
 Ice Break, Greeting & Introducing Yourself
(10 Points)
 Voice Variety (20 Points)
 Body Language, Moving & Smiling (20 P’s)
 Eye Contact (20 Points)
 Informing and Entertaining (10 Points)
 Self-Confidence (10 Points)
 Time and Powerful Closing (10 Points)

21. Wish You All the Best!
Hussein Al-Natsheh
General Manager – Ciapple LLC
Linkedin.com/in/natsheh
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