Effective Presentations

Description

• Know your audience - speak so they understand you
• Use appropriate presentation approaches, tools and technologies - be confident
• Structure ideas simply and persuasively
• Understand non-verbal techniques that enhance presentations
• Recognize the cultural diversity of your audience and prepare suitable presentations
• Be able to rephrase content to ensure understanding
• Respond effectively to questions 

Skills Check-List

• Address your listeners' needs and background knowledge - employing suitable level of language
• Being sensitive to cultural and gender differences
• Able to 'book-end' presentations with effective openings and closings
• Present confidently - without nervousness
• Effective pacing - separating key topics and using transitions
• Incorporate an appropriate level of eye contact with the audience
• Use natural purposeful gestures
• Vary voice speed, volume, and projection
• Inject appropriate examples and stories
• Concrete, succinct, memorable
• Involve your audience
• Field questions while maintaining presentation flow
• Create effective visual aids and handouts