This document provides guidance on oral presentation skills. It discusses the importance of oral presentations for professional growth and persuasive speaking. It also covers identifying the audience and tailoring the presentation to their needs. The key components of a successful presentation are the content, which should be informative and use visuals, and the speaker's body language, credibility, and ability to engage the audience. The document provides tips on practicing, keeping presentations concise and simple, and designing slides with visuals, tables, and graphs to effectively convey information.

1. Oral Presentation
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2. ▪ Oral Presentation Skills
▪ Importance
▪ Type and Purpose
▪ Audience Recognition
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Contents
▪ Components of a Presentation
□ Content
□ Speaker
□ Some tips….

3. What are Oral Presentation Skills
▪ Roughly known as the
Presentation skills in
which the speaker
informs/instructs or
brief about something
through verbal
communication by
using different visuals
and audios.
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4. Importance
▪ Professional growth
▪ Tailor-made content
▪ Persuasive Speaking
▪ Visual Analysis
▪ Predictions
▪ Action Oriented
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6. Type
▪ Briefing/ Teaching a Skill
▪ New Policy/New Software
▪ Performance Analysis
▪ Dealing with Experts
▪ Business Strategy/ Closing a
deal
▪ To instruct
▪ To inform
▪ To show an end result
▪ To argue logically
▪ To plan out something
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Purpose

7. Audience Recognition
▪ Context
▪ Knowledge
▪ Expert Level
▪ Educational Background.
▪ Why are they here?
▪ Why should they care?
▪ Inclusive Attitude
▪ Asking for Feedback
▪ Asking Questions
▪ Taking their views
▪ Political Correctness
▪ Remain Neutral (if the
situation allows).
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8. Components (Key Areas)
▪ The Content
□ Tailor-made
□ Easy to read
□ Interesting
□ Informative
□ Use of Visuals
□ Research focused
□ To the point
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9. Contd..
▪ The Speaker
□ Body Language
□ Gestures
□ Facial Expressions
□ Formal Dressing
□ Confident
□ Accommodating
▪ The Speaker
□ Knows his content
□ Establishing Credibility
□ Calm
□ Should not take things
personally
□ Knows how to buy time
□ Does the required
homework
□ Move around
□ Speak loudly and clear
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11. Tips on how to buy time
▪ “Thank you for your question sir/madam but can you please
repeat what you just said?”
▪ “I am afraid, its too early to predict anything.”
▪ “So, you are saying that (repeat their question)…..”
▪ Come again please.
▪ Can you please simplify your question?
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12. How to Ace your Presentation
▪ Understand the “Spotlight Effect”.
▪ Practice, practice and practice.
▪ Greet and thank your audience.
▪ Tell a story.
▪ Start with a question.
▪ Keep it concise and simple.
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13. Contd..
▪ Remain composed and confident.
▪ Don’t make it sound like a speech.
▪ Know what you are saying and why.
▪ Avoid Speech Fillers.
▪ Use some flash cards
▪ Know why you are the best person for this job
▪ Thank the audience again
▪ Drink some water.
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14. How to Design/Make the slides
• List of Contents
• 1 section/ topic per slide
• Don’t stuff the slides
• Avoid flashy visuals and backgrounds
• Be mindful of the fonts

15. Contd..
• Bold/ Italicize the text where necessary
• Know the time limit
• Always give references
• Use Infographics/ Charts and Visuals
• Keep it simple , as always

16. White
Is the color of milk and fresh
snow, the color produced by the
combination of all the colors of
the visible spectrum.
You can also split
your content
Black
Is the color of ebony and of outer
space. It has been the symbolic
color of elegance, solemnity and
authority.
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17. Want big impact?
Use big image.
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18. Use charts
to explain
your ideas
Gray
White Black
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19. And tables to
compare data
A B C
Yellow 10 20 7
Blue 30 15 10
Orange 5 24 16
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20. You can insert graphs from Excel or Google Sheets
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21. Thanks!
Any questions?
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