HOW TO MAKE A EFFECTIVE

PRESENTATION

PRESENTED BY:
DURGESH SHUKLA
PRAKHAR GUPTA
AMAN SONI
UTKARSH SINGH
VISHNU THAKUR
MAKING ORAL PRESENTATION

Many courses students are asked to

make individual or group presentations.
Employers want to recruit graduates
with good verbal skills.
 Some jobs require you to make oral
presentations, others may not but they do
require the same verbal communication
skills.
Objective of this Presentation
 Improve your presentation skills--
presenting information, arguing a
case, persuading, negotiating,
explaining
Combating Nerves
 Rehearse in advance
 Remind yourself that everybody feels
nervous.
 Ask what is the worst thing that could
happen and prepare for it.
 Try to relax.
 Use visual aid
 Have effective speaker’s notes.
The context
 Aims and purpose
 Inform/explain
Have a logical order, use examples,
analogies

 Persuade
Be convincing, use evidence, and
show enthusiasm
The Audience
 Who will your audience be?
 What will they expect or need?
 How many will there be?
 What are the characteristic of your
particular audience?
 Type of language, degree of formality,
dress
Time
 20 minutes
 If longer than 20 minutes, break it up
with different sort of activities.
 Allow time at the beginning for people
to settle
 Allow time for questions
 If a group presentation, divide the
time between the presenters
Structuring the Material
 Tell your audience what you are going
to tell them at the beginning

 Decide the best order

 Tell audience what you have told

them at the end
 The speakers notes
 Cards
 OHP slides
 Write difficult sections in full
Group Presentation
 Allocate tasks
 Allocate tasks according to a group
members strengths
 Met regularly for progress checks
 Agree deadlines and stick to them
Using Visual Aids
 function of Visual aids
 Get attention
 Aid understanding
 Look professional
 Help nerves
Types of Visual aids
 Black/white board
 Flip chart
 Overhead projector (OHP)
 Slides projector
 Video
 objects
Handouts
 Help the audience
 Reflect what’s important in your
presentation
 Be correctly spelt and accurate
 Not to be too many to confuse the
audience
 Be cheap to produce
 Be sufficient in number
The delivery
 Dress
 What clothes would be most
appropriate for this audience?

 What will make your feel comfortable

and confident?
Organization
 Being well organized
 Try to organize seating in advance
 Arrive early
 Have your notes and visual aids
handy and ordered
Timekeeping
 Put your watch where you can see
easily
 Group members can warn each other
 A rehearsal will help
Your voice and manner
 Monotonous voice?
 Distracting manners? (swaying,
playing with hair, covering your
mouth, fidgeting)
 In group presentation (chatting,
passing notes, looking uninterested)
Relating to our audience
 Create a “rapport” with audience
(making eye contact)
 Make sure your audience sit at the
back can hear you
 Don’t turn back on the audience and
look at the LCD
 Use examples relevant to your
audience
Dealing with Questions
 Check that you understand the
question
 It is better to admit ignorance than to
waffle
 You can pass the question back to the
questioner or to others. This can
generate discussion
 In a presentation, have someone
chairing questions.
Delivering a group Presentation
 Each person presents the topic they
have covered
 One person acts as narrator and
others contribute as needed
 Each person has a specific
task/responsibility (showing visual
aids, dealing with questions,
reporting findings etc)
THANK YOU