3. Why to Learn Presentation
• Professional life
• New projects
• New developments in your domain
• Present research papers/ projects
• Job interview
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4. Presentation Skills Definition
• Ideas, concepts or issues talked about or
spoken to a group or audience/ job/ demo
for teaching, marketing
6. • Who is your audience?
• Why are they there?
• What is your goal?
• How long will it be?
• Where will it take place?
• When? Soon or later
• How? Digital, online, face to face
1.Planning . Raise Questions
7. Start your Outline
• No Powerpoint
• Film with no script
• Pencil & Paper
• Order your thoughts
• Key points
10. – Too much text
– Too small to read
– a crutch for the presenter
– Clip Art and boring Slide templates
– Over dazzling animations
– PowerPoint should be a supporting aid –
– Avoid too many bullets as well –
11. 10/ 20/ 30 Rule
“should have ten slides,
Presentation time is no more than twenty
minutes,
and contain no font smaller than thirty
points.” Guy Kawaski
Use colour coding to emphasize
14. Appearance
• Pleasing personality
• Formal dress code with tie for boys
• Formal dress according to organization
• Not showy
• Not wedding dress, no jeans
• Neat and clean but not over makeup
• No old nail polish
• Appearance of decent and sober person
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16. • Lack of experience
• Lack of preparation
• Lack of enthusiasm
• Negative self-talk
Feeling Nervous?
17. Dealing with Nervousness
• Be prepared
– Plan and rehearse
• Deep breathing!
– Sit close to the stage
• Engage with your audience
– Makes you feel more relaxed
– Create interest in audience
18. • Be over-prepared
• Focus on your goal
• Rehearse and practice
• Know your subject
• Use relaxation techniques
• Make audience comfortable
• Be positive +++
• Avoid stressors
Becoming Confident
23. Dealing with Questions of Audience
TRACT technique
1. Thank the questioner
2. Repeat the question
3. Answer the question
4. Check with the questioner if they are
satisfied
5. Thank them again
24. What makes a talk poor? Avoid
• Little/no eye contact
– No engagement with the audience
• Mumbling
– Often because not engaging with audience
• Reading from a paper
– Too fast, monotone
• Little/no structure
– Lack of clarity
• Too much information
• Bad visual aids
25. Your Presentation
• Get a list of best selling books
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_books
• https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/aug/09/best
-selling-books-all-time-fifty-shades-grey-compare
• Download the books: https://b-
ok.asia/?regionChanged=&redirect=20880996
• The best thing is to read any book completely and write its
summary.
• Last and lower level option: You can take book summary from
internet.
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26. Cont…
• Make ppt slide with best visuals. Just write
hints/ headings
• 5 minutes Presentation in the class.
• Ted talk style presentation
• It carries 10 marks.
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