The document provides guidance on how to effectively plan and deliver presentations. It discusses that preparation is key, and outlines the "four P's" of planning, preparing, practicing, and presenting. It emphasizes that presenters should know their audience and have a clear objective for their presentation. Visual aids should be used to reinforce messages but not merely restate verbal content. Presenters are advised to practice their delivery to reduce nerves and ensure strong first impressions through confident body language and eye contact with the audience.

1. The Art of Public Speaking
and Persuasive Presentations

2. Presentation Skills
It is a myth that great presenters are “born not
made”. You can become a competent presenter
with no innate ability at all.
……But you cannot become a great presenter
without hard work…. And practise
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3. Preparing Yourself
What type presenter are you?
• Avoider
• Resister
• Accepter
• Seeker
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4. The four “P’s”
Plan
Prepare
Practise
Present
and the fifth one......
Perform
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6. The Art of Public Speaking
Bush Obama
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7. Planning your
presentation

8. Planning Your Presentation
The real key to a successful presentation lies in
preparation
• 10% I = Inspiration
• 90% P = Preparation
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9. Planning Your Presentation
Informative Persuasive
The I-P Diagram
A purely informative presentation seeks mainly to
increase the knowledge of the audience.
As you approach the centre line you are implying that
some actions should be taken.
So is your know where you want to be on the I-P line
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10. Planning Your Presentation
• Objective
• Subject/theme
• Format
• Key messages
• Structure
• Support material
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11. Planning Your Presentation
Stay Focused
Have one clear theme which is supported by your
content
Support it with maximum 5 key points
3! IS BEST!
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12. Planning Your Presentation
Know your audience
• Who? And what Values?
• What do they want or need?
• What is your role?
• Constraints
o Political (P and p)
o Financial
o Knowledge
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13. A short play in 3 Acts
Tell you what I am going to tell you
Tell you
Tell you again Summary
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14. Visual Aids and
Supporting Material

15. Visual Aids
It has been shown that people take in far more
information though their eyes that their ears.
Hence, we have the old Chinese adage that:
I hear I forget
I see I remember
I do I understand
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16. Visual Aids
Visual aids are needed to:
• Focus the attention of your audience
• Reinforce but not merely restate your verbal
message
• Stimulate interest; or
• Illustrate factors that are hard to visualise
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17. Planning Your Presentation
At all costs avoid the
dreaded death by
power point.
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18. Visual Aids
Tips for planning successful visual aids:
• Keep information minimal
• Make text, number, graphs and charts legible. At
least 18pt text
• Never use tabular information. Replace it with
graphs, bar charts.
• Keep your visual aids simple and attractive. Avoid
clutter
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19. Planning Your Presentation
Handouts are good if you wish to:
• reinforce important information
• summarise actions for audience follow-up
• supply detailed information to support your
visual aids
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20. Planning Your Presentation
• In most cases they should be handed out after
to great max impact
• Advise in advance that you are about to say will
be distributed at the end of the presentation
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21. Practise

22. Practise
• Read and understand
• Rehearse
• Add notes
• Learn ideas not words
• Let your natural style shine
• Tape, mirror, victim!
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23. Timing
• Fix and agree length
• 10-20 minutes is best
• Allow time for Qu
• Rehearse and check timing
• Stick to your agreed time
• If you over run – be ready
to edit
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24. Dealing with nerves

25. Preparing Yourself
Fear and nerves can
block your mind when:
• Preparing
• Waiting to start
• Speaking
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26. Preparing Yourself
Tips to reduce anxiety when preparing your
presentations:
• Organise
• Visualise
• Practise
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27. Preparing Yourself
Tips to reduce anxiety when preparing your
presentations:
• Breathe
• Relax
• Release
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28. Preparing Yourself
Tips to reduce anxiety when preparing your
presentations:
• Move
• Eye contact
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29. Planning Your Presentation
• Planning
• Preparing
• Practise
• Timing
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30. The Presentation

31. Speaking to an Audience
When you stand up to
speak to an audience
you have a massive
pool of goodwill in
front of you.
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32. First Impressions Count
You never get a second chance to make a first
impression
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33. Good First Touch
• Prepared
• Trained
• Confident
• Energy channeled
• Great first touch
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34. Speaking to an Audience
The presentation tips fall into five categories:
• Body
• Eye Contact
• Voice
• Language
• Questions
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35. . Body
For great presentations combine
verbal and non verbal
communications:
• Comfortable stance
• Stand tall
• Use your hands
• Lean forward to emphasise
• Smile..... In the right places!
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36. .Eye Contact
Remember that you also gesture with your eyes. We get
uncomfortable in the company of someone who doesn’t make
eye contact with us for at least 60% of the time. We call them
“shifty”.
• Focus on one person for about 1-3 seconds, then move on.
• People sitting near the person you select will also feel that
you are looking at them.
• Beware of “blind spots”. It is easy to drop into the habit of
cutting out one section of the audience. This will not help
your presentation.
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37. .Voice
The are three main
problems with voice:
• Volume
• Tone
• Pitch
• Speed
• Breathe.....
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38. Pause Pace Stress
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39. . Language
• Use short sentences. Use short words. Don’t be afraid to
repeat yourself. It can reinforce your message (remember
Martin Luther King’s speech “I have a dream”)
• Politicians repeat
• Rule of three
• Otherwise, use “signpost” words or sentences like:
“So, we have said...”
“Next, we shall...”
“Finally, ...”
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40. Questions
• A presentation is a dialogue. The dialogue is more effective if the
audience can talk. You need to welcome questions.
• If you ask for questions, look like you mean it. Step towards the
audience. Raise our hand and show your palm.
• Listen to the question. Don’t assume that you know what is being
asked until the questioner has finished.
• Before you answer the question, repeat it. In a large room it is often
hard for the rest of the audience to hear it.
• Anticipate questions and practise your answers. If you are asked
something you don’t know, admit it. Try and add “But what I do
know is..”
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41. The four “P’s”
Plan
Prepare
Practice
Present
and the fifth one......
Perform
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42. Obama
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43. Conclusion
“Fortune favours the brave”
Do not take fear into your heart, but take
confidence into your presentation. Trust in your
preparation, talents and personality and deliver a
winning performance….
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