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Presentation Skills
Table of Contents Learning Outcomes
2. Focus
3. Structuring
your presentation
4. Bad habits -
What have you
experienced?
C. Presentation is
Performance
1. Impact
2. Body
Language
3. Posture
4. Making the
connection
5. Start and
finish
D. Developing vocal
technique
1. Resonance
2. Tongue
Twisters
3. Warm ups -
Physical
4. Warm ups -
Vocal
5. Bad habits -
What have you
experienced?
E. Adding Polish
1. Ideas for
adding variety and
sparkle
2. PowerPoint
3. Summary of
Top Tips
F. Completion
1. Summary
2. Useful
resources
G. What Next?
Presentation Skills
Table of Contents Learning how to be a good presenter
3. Structuring your get you thinking about your own knowledge and
4. Bad habits - What By the end of this lesson you should be equipped to
have you experienced? start to improve your presentation skills.
C. Presentation is
Performance The essential element of Coping with nerves is covered
1. Impact in a separate module in this series. Click on the link to
2. Body Language work your way through this additional module, which will
3. Posture also help you make effective presentations.
4. Making the
connection
5. Start and finish
D. Developing vocal
technique
1. Resonance
2. Tongue Twisters
3. Warm ups -
Physical
4. Warm ups - Vocal
5. Bad habits - What
have you experienced?
E. Adding Polish
1. Ideas for adding
variety and sparkle
2. PowerPoint
3. Summary of Top
Tips
F. Completion
1. Summary
2. Useful resources
G. What Next?
Presentation Skills
Table of Contents Team Presentations
be a good presenter
What are you trying to do exactly?
B. Creating your
presentation
What outcomes do you expect?
1. Team
Presentations And at what level should it be pitched? Too high or too
2. Focus low and you will lose the audience immediately.
3. Structuring your
presentation You need to be absolutely clear about the key points
4. Bad habits - What you want to get over and all your material should be
have you experienced? focused on supporting these. Extraneous information,
C. Presentation is even if it is fascinating, should be left out if it is not
Performance relevant.
1. Impact
Next, decide what type of presentation it is to be
2. Body Language
3. Posture
Factual
4. Making the
connection
Persuasive
5. Start and finish
D. Developing vocal Descriptive
technique
1. Resonance Explanatory
2. Tongue Twisters
3. Warm ups - Rhetorical
Physical
Argument
4. Warm ups - Vocal
5. Bad habits - What
Other?
have you experienced?
E. Adding Polish Finally, decide on the tone of your presentation
1. Ideas for adding
variety and sparkle For example, serious, light hearted, emotional,
2. PowerPoint argumentative, humorous, ironic, polemical and so on.
3. Summary of Top Whichever one you choose, it is good to add a little
Tips variety of tone here and there.
F. Completion
1. Summary For example, even in a predominantly serious
2. Useful resources presentation, a little wit or humour wouldn't go amiss.
G. What Next? Self conscious attempts at humour, however, can be
embarrassing, so only try to raise a smile if you can do
it confidently.
Presentation Skills
Table of Contents Structuring your presentation
a good presenter
Tell them what you told them
B. Creating your presentation
1. Team Presentations
Although rather over simplified, this basic advice may
2. Focus
help you remember to structure your presentation
3. Structuring your
clearly.
presentation
4. Bad habits - What You must tell the audience what they are in for and
have you experienced? what you are going to try to do.
C. Presentation is
Performance It is a good idea if the main body of your presentation
1. Impact is divided into bite size 'chunks'. This means you can
2. Body Language signpost these 'chunks' in the introduction. Don't try to
3. Posture include too much. The rule of three is often claimed to
4. Making the be most effective. Each of the three key points can be
connection expanded upon with subsidiary elements.
5. Start and finish
D. Developing vocal Keep everything relevant and to the point.
technique
1. Resonance Finally sum up the key points or arguments succinctly,
2. Tongue Twisters and make sure your presentation has a clear end.
3. Warm ups -
Physical
4. Warm ups - Vocal
5. Bad habits - What
have you experienced?
E. Adding Polish
1. Ideas for adding
variety and sparkle
2. PowerPoint
3. Summary of Top
Tips
F. Completion
1. Summary
2. Useful resources
G. What Next?
Presentation Skills
Table of Contents Bad habits - What have you experienced?
A. Introduction
1 Focusing only on the CONTENT
1. Learning
(not delivery) of presentations,
Outcomes
from your experience, which of
2. Learning how to
the following examples of bad
be a good presenter
practice annoys you the most?
B. Creating your
presentation
a) Poorly structured and hard to
1. Team
follow
Presentations
2. Focus
b) Too much information
3. Structuring your
presentation
4. Bad habits - c) Aimed at wrong level for
experienced?
C. Presentation is
d) Tone
Performance
inappropriate/boring/patronising
1. Impact
2. Body Language
e) Aim not clearly spelt out
3. Posture
4. Making the
connection f) No summary or conclusion
Presentation Skills
Table of Contents Impact
Presentation Skills
Table of Contents Body Language
A. Introduction From the moment you take up your position, long before you
1. Learning begin to speak, you are transmitting obvious and complex
Outcomes messages. Just like dogs can smell fear, people can 'catch'
2. Learning anxiety, shyness, embarrassment and so on. We humans are
how to be a good a surprisingly empathetic bunch and are very good at reading
presenter facial expressions and movements of the body and knowing
B. Creating your how someone is feeling - their mood, state of mind.
presentation
1. Team So what can you do? You are genuinely feeling many of these
3. Structuring
your presentation Tip. Look at the 'Coping with Nerves' lesson, if you have
4. Bad habits - not already done so. This will help you to mentally
What have you prepare yourself before you go on. In fact, it is a kind of
experienced? meditation
C. Presentation is
Performance
1. Impact
2. Body
Language
3. Posture
4. Making the
connection
5. Start and
finish
D. Developing vocal
technique
1. Resonance
2. Tongue
Twisters
3. Warm ups -
Physical
Original illustration by Vera Carbin, Aberystwyth University
4. Warm ups -
School of Art
Vocal
5. Bad habits -
What have you
experienced?
E. Adding Polish
1. Ideas for
adding variety and
sparkle
2. PowerPoint
3. Summary of
Top Tips
F. Completion
1. Summary
2. Useful
resources
G. What Next?
Created by the Careers Advisory Service, Aberystwyth University
Presentation Skills
Table of Contents Posture
2. Focus the effect of lifting your chin slightly. This position opens
3. Structuring your up your chest and neck and also helps your vocal
Presentation Skills
Table of Contents Making the connection
4. Bad habits - really important. Don't just look at the people in the front row
What have you left, and on no account look at the clock on the back wall
experienced? (advice I was given once while at school). You must try to
Presentation Skills
Table of Contents Start and finish
Presentation Skills
Table of Contents Resonance
3. Structuring for the singing voice. The best exercise for improving
4. Bad habits -
UNGHH AWWW
What have you
experienced?
Taking a deep breath low into your abdomen choose a
C. Presentation is
note and intone UNGHH which is like a hum but with your
Performance
mouth open. Use your stomach muscles to control the
1. Impact
escaping breath so that you exhale slowly and evenly.
2. Body Language
3. Posture The middle of your tongue should be touching your soft
4. Making the palate so that the throat is blocked and the sound comes
connection through the nose. Do that a few times on different notes,
5. Start and finish high, low, middle range. Try to feel how the sound vibrates
D. Developing vocal in your face, and other parts of your body.
technique
1. Resonance When you are comfortable with that, start off with UNGHH
2. Tongue again, but before your breath runs out lower your tongue
Twisters and transition to AWW. Keep your mouth egg shaped not
3. Warm ups - frog mouth shaped. The wider you open your mouth, the
Physical better the effect.
4. Warm ups -
Vocal When you have practised this a few times, it's fun to go
5. Bad habits - quite quickly from UNGHH to AWW and then play about
What have you with the different sounds your mouth can make by opening
experienced? wide, closing to a small gap, going frog mouth and moving
E. Adding Polish your tongue around in lots of different positions.
1. Ideas for
adding variety and This is an excellent way to help you to find out how to
sparkle improve the quality of your voice. Do this exercise on lots
2. PowerPoint of different notes.
3. Summary of
Just out of interest, take a look at what some people can
Top Tips
do by manipulating the resonating chambers of their voice
F. Completion
resulting in the amazing overtone singing, where the
1. Summary
harmonics in the voice can be heard above the basic notes
2. Useful
being sung.
resources
G. What Next?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a940YFaRI50&feature=r
elated
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZczbWh6hdB4
Presentation Skills
Table of Contents Tongue Twisters
2. Learning how to
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
be a good presenter
Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers?
B. Creating your
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
presentation
where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
1. Team
Presentations
Unique New York.
2. Focus
3. Structuring your Six thick thistle sticks. Six thick thistles stick.
presentation
4. Bad habits - What The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick.
have you experienced?
C. Presentation is Three free throws.
Performance
Six sick slick slim sycamore saplings.
1. Impact
2. Body Language
A noisy noise annoys an oyster.
3. Posture
4. Making the
Friendly Frank flips fine flapjacks.
connection
5. Start and finish Sheep on cheap ship trip.
D. Developing vocal
technique Lovely lemon liniment.
1. Resonance
2. Tongue Many an anemone sees an enemy anemone.
Twisters
Nine nice night nurses nursing nicely.
3. Warm ups -
Physical
Thieves seize skis.
4. Warm ups - Vocal
5. Bad habits - What
Chop shops stock chops.
have you experienced?
E. Adding Polish The Leith police dismisseth us.
1. Ideas for adding
variety and sparkle The seething seas ceaseth
2. PowerPoint
3. Summary of Top Freshly fried fresh flesh.
Tips
F. Completion
1. Summary
2. Useful resources
G. What Next?
Presentation Skills
Table of Contents Warm ups - Physical
It is essential to warm up a little before any
A. Introduction
performance work
1. Learning
Outcomes Stretch up neck and gently drop to one
2. Learning how to shoulder then the other, then chin on chest and
be a good presenter point chin forwards in a circular movement
B. Creating your Yawn widely, then move your jaw in a bite then
presentation a chew action.
1. Team Stick out tongue and make circles one direction
Presentations then the other
2. Focus Brrrr noise vibrating the lips. Brrr noise while
3. Structuring your sticking out tongue
presentation Stretch mouth wide in hideous grin, swap to
4. Bad habits - What pursed lips and frown
have you experienced?
C. Presentation is
Performance
1. Impact
2. Body Language
3. Posture
4. Making the
connection
5. Start and finish
D. Developing vocal
technique
1. Resonance
2. Tongue Twisters
3. Warm ups -
Physical
4. Warm ups - Vocal
5. Bad habits - What
have you experienced?
E. Adding Polish
1. Ideas for adding
variety and sparkle
2. PowerPoint
3. Summary of Top
Tips
F. Completion
1. Summary
2. Useful resources
G. What Next?
Presentation Skills
Table of Contents Bad habits - What have you experienced?
A. Introduction 1
Focusing on the PERFORMANCE
1. Learning aspect of a presentation, what
Outcomes bad habits have you observed?
2. Learning how to a) Poor eye contact
be a good presenter
B. Creating your
b) No
presentation
enthusiasm/energy/boring
1. Team
Presentations
c) fidgety and embarrassed
2. Focus
3. Structuring your
d) Monotonous voice
presentation
4. Bad habits - What
have you experienced? e) Too quiet
C. Presentation is
Performance f) Too fast
1. Impact
2. Body Language
3. Posture
4. Making the
connection
5. Start and finish
D. Developing vocal
technique
1. Resonance
2. Tongue Twisters
3. Warm ups -
Physical
4. Warm ups - Vocal
5. Bad habits -
What have you
experienced?
E. Adding Polish
1. Ideas for adding
variety and sparkle
2. PowerPoint
3. Summary of Top
Tips
F. Completion
1. Summary
2. Useful resources
G. What Next?
Presentation Skills
Table of Contents Ideas for adding variety and sparkle
2. Focus Not too many bells and whistles - you are the
presentation And of course, don't read it! You can print out
4. Bad habits - What a notes page for your own use, while you are
C. Presentation is
Performance
1. Impact
2. Body Language
3. Posture
4. Making the
connection
5. Start and finish
D. Developing vocal
technique
1. Resonance
2. Tongue Twisters
3. Warm ups -
Physical
4. Warm ups - Vocal
5. Bad habits - What
have you experienced?
E. Adding Polish
1. Ideas for adding
variety and sparkle
2. PowerPoint
3. Summary of Top
Tips
F. Completion
1. Summary
2. Useful resources
G. What Next?
Created by the Careers Advisory Service, Aberystwyth University
Presentation Skills
Table of Contents Summary of Top Tips
1. Team hints and tips given; practise all the elements and your
3. Posture
4. Making the
connection
5. Start and finish
D. Developing vocal
technique
1. Resonance
2. Tongue Twisters
3. Warm ups -
Physical
4. Warm ups - Vocal
5. Bad habits - What
have you experienced? Original illustration by Vera Carbin, Aberystwyth
E. Adding Polish University School of Art
1. Ideas for adding
Top Tip 2
variety and sparkle
2. PowerPoint
Don't turn your back on the audience
3. Summary of Top
Tips
F. Completion
1. Summary
2. Useful resources
G. What Next?
Top Tip 3
http://www.presentationmagazine.com/8-mistakes-
microsoft-powerpoint-presentations.htm
Top Tip 4
Top Tip 5
Make eye contact with the whole audience, not just the
front row
Top Tip 6
http://www.monologuearchive.com/
Top Tip 7
Top Tip 8
Top Tip 10