Oral presentations allow for face-to-face interactive ways to get what you're trying to tell across.
Avoiding Presentation Pitfalls
These presentations can represent you since they may be the only thing your audience knows from you.
Planning Your Presentation
- Analyze Your Listeners
- Work from an Explicit Purpose Statement
- Analyze Your Speaking Situation
- Select a Delivery Method
- Memorized Delivery
- Impromptu Delivery
- Scripted Delivery
- Extemporaneous Delivery
Delivering Your Presentation
- Research Your Topic
- Aim For Simplicity and Conciseness
- Anticipate Audience Questions
- Outline Your Presentations
- Plan Your Visuals
- Decide where visuals will work best
- Decide which visuals will work best
- Decide how many are appropriate
- Create a storyboard
- Decide which can realistically be created
- Select your media
- Prepare Your Visuals
- Be selective
- Make visuals easy to read and understand
- Look for alternatives to word-filled visuals
- Consider Available Technology
- Use Powerpoint or Other Software Wisely
- Check the Room and Setting Beforehand
- Rehearse Your Delivery
- Cultivate the Human Landscape
- Get to know your audience
- Display enthusiasm and confidence
- Be reasonable
- Don't preach
- Keep Your Listeners Oriented
- Open with a clear and engaging introduction
- Give concrete examples
- Provide explicit transitions
- Review and interpret
- Manage Your Visuals
- Prepare everything beforehand
- Manage Your Presentation Style
- Use natural movements and reasonable postures
- Adjust volume, pronunciation, and rate
- Maintain eye contact
- Manage Your Speaking Situation
- Be responsive to listener feedback
- Stick to your plan
- Leave listeners with something to remember
- Allow time for questions and answers
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