The document provides tips for giving a good presentation including planning ahead, practicing, keeping it simple, rehearsing, being confident, knowing your audience, maintaining eye contact, engaging the audience, using colors and graphics consistently, and avoiding distracting backgrounds. It emphasizes understanding your topic, conveying information at your audience's level, and reflecting well on yourself as the speaker. Bad presentations risk boring or confusing the audience.

1. “ A Good Presentation” By Maaz ID:9702

2. Why A Good Presentation? You want people to: Understand your work Be INTERESTED in your work Think you’re great! What happens if you give a bad one? Few pay attention They may fall asleep Might think your work is not important

3. Mark Twain said… “ It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good presentation”. According Psychologists: “ A good lecture is 25% content and 75% theater ”.

4. Take-Home Messages Don’t wait until the last minute. Plan ahead Practice Keep it simple Have fun!

5. Rehearse, rehearse, rehearse-enough times that you are completely comfortable with the material Practice the set up of equipment Go to the presentation room (before presentation) and familiarize your self with the surroundings. On being Confident

6. The Day of Presentation Arrive early. Check the room and the set-up Be rested Dress professionally but comfortably Be understandable Avoid: Over stimulation Booooring

7. Know Your Self Are you INTERESTED in your topic? If no, get a different one! If yes, ACT LIKE IT If YOU aren’t excited… Can’t expect OTHER people to be!

8. Know Your Audience What detail should you get? Do they have a background like yours? How much motivation for your work? Things that can affect this: Topic, topic depth Attitude Manner.

9. Keep your eyes on the audience, NOT the equipment Have command on yours Voice tone Don’t hide behind the podium Gestures – Don’t be nervous/ keep nervousness to a minimum Posture –Keep control on your behavior You are the Message

10. Gain the audience's attention Keep your audience interested Bring them closure Convey the necessary information Don’t just talk faster Don’t be offensive while argumenting. The Power of persuasion

11. Maintaining Attention Refocus the audience: Key points Summaries Interact with the audience: Pose a question Voting Insert active exercise: Written exercise Brainstorming

12. Color can create excitement, add emphasis, contribute to reliability Stay with the same color scheme keep them flowing with your template DO NOT use too many colors or fonts. Using Text & Graphics

13. Bad-Background Avoid backgrounds that are difficult to read from. Always be consistent with the background that you use.

14. Good Presentation Interesting I understood this one! I wonder if this technique would work for my problem Let’s talk to them at the break I never thought of that! Interesting topic explained at audience’s level Slides are understandable and easy to see Good presentations reflect well on speaker!

15. Bad Presentation Audience won’t see your work is great But will make fun of you from back row. zzz What does that slide say? It’s booooring Those are some unpleasant colors… Hey – it matches my tie. Please let it be OVER…