The document outlines effective presentation techniques, emphasizing the use of appropriate language, pacing, and visual aids to enhance audience understanding. Key strategies include being fluent, concrete, and dynamic in content delivery while also engaging the audience through questions and examples. Rehearsal and preparation are highlighted as essential for a successful presentation.

1. TECHNIQUES TO DELIVER A
PRESENTATION
IRSHAD HUSSAIN
Government College University Faisalabad
COMMUNICATION SKILLS

2. Language
Use of relevant language
Use of appropriate and formal language
Avoidance of jargon
Use of proper vocabulary and diction
Topic relevant terms

3. Mood and Personality
 Be suitably paced
 Be comfortable
 Don’t deliver too quickly
 Don’t deliver too slow
 Judge your audience in order to maintain the tone

4. Visual Aids
Use clear pictures or/videos or other models
Use signposts
Don’t place them on the center of the stage
They help the audience understand the point easily
They help the presenter to deliver the topic clearly
Pause at transitional points
Explain the chunks of information

5. Emphasis
 Emphasize key points
verbally,
non-verbally
vocally
Repetitions of important points

6. Fluency
 Be fluent verbally
 Avoid repeating certain words to make fluency i.e. ‘you
know’
 Avoid using fillers i.e. ‘ummms’, áhhhs’
 Avoid using the same body gestures, movements
 Pauses should not sound unnecessary

7. Content
 Try to be concrete in delivering you content
 Don’t be too word
 Be precise and clear
 Don’t in indefinite

8. Rhetoric
Be dynamic
Be rhetoric
Be enthusiastic about your lecture
Be varied
Encourage if anyone from the audience asks
questions

9. Examples
 Give appropriate example
 Link the previous knowledge of the audience to the present
topic
 Make familiar the new topic to the audience
 Ask questions to the audience to related their knowledge to
the topic being introduced

10. Rehearsal
 Prepare you topic well
 Learn the key points by heart
 Rehearse in-front of a mirror to correct you body gestures
 Practise aloud to make your pitch of voice to be clear

11. Thank you