Quality Wood Badge

Presentations

Quality Wood Badge

Presentations

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Quality PresentationsQuality Presentations

Quality presentations depend on:

– Presentation style

– Learning method/training technique

– Confidence with the material

Quality presentations depend on:

– Presentation style

– Learning method/training technique

– Confidence with the material

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You Are Your StyleYou Are Your Style

Participants respond to YOU:

– Your voice

– Your body language

– Your attitude

– Your presentation style

Participants respond to YOU:

– Your voice

– Your body language

– Your attitude

– Your presentation style

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Voice Voice

• Be sure you can be heard.

• Use clear diction.

• Use the full range of your voice.

• Concentrate on what you’re saying now.

• Pause to let your audience process the information.

• Vary the rate of your speech.

• Be sure you can be heard.

• Use clear diction.

• Use the full range of your voice.

• Concentrate on what you’re saying now.

• Pause to let your audience process the information.

• Vary the rate of your speech.

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AttitudeAttitude

• It comes through to the audience.

• Keeping a positive attitude about learning promotes learning.

• Eye contact engages the audience and strengthens the message.

• It comes through to the audience.

• Keeping a positive attitude about learning promotes learning.

• Eye contact engages the audience and strengthens the message.

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Body LanguageBody Language

• Know the positive and negative gestures.

• Use them appropriately.

• Not using body language also sends a message.

• Spontaneous gestures convey your feelings.

• Know the positive and negative gestures.

• Use them appropriately.

• Not using body language also sends a message.

• Spontaneous gestures convey your feelings.

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Presentation StylePresentation Style

• The delivery style should suit the occasion and the audience.

• Read your audience, not your materials.• Be flexible. Adjust your style; stop and

clarify.• Remember the 20-second rule.• Evaluate your presentation to improve.

• The delivery style should suit the occasion and the audience.

• Read your audience, not your materials.• Be flexible. Adjust your style; stop and

clarify.• Remember the 20-second rule.• Evaluate your presentation to improve.

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Learning MethodsLearning Methods

• Seeing

• Hearing

• Saying

• Doing

• Seeing

• Hearing

• Saying

• Doing

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Adults gain knowledge by usingone or a combination of learning methods:

Adults gain knowledge by usingone or a combination of learning methods:

What Adults RetainWhat Adults Retain

• 10 percent of what they read

• 20 percent of what they hear

• 30 percent of what they see

• 50 percent of what they see and hear

• 70 percent of what they say

• 90 percent of what they say and do

• 10 percent of what they read

• 20 percent of what they hear

• 30 percent of what they see

• 50 percent of what they see and hear

• 70 percent of what they say

• 90 percent of what they say and do

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Depending on which methods we use to learn, we retain different amounts of the information presented. Adults retain

Depending on which methods we use to learn, we retain different amounts of the information presented. Adults retain

Training TechniquesTraining Techniques

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LectureDemonstrationReflectionLearning Centers

LectureDemonstrationReflectionLearning Centers

TalkRole-PlaySimulationBrainstorming

TalkRole-PlaySimulationBrainstorming

DiscussionCase StudyBuzz GroupGame

DiscussionCase StudyBuzz GroupGame

Trainers use a variety of techniques to encourage learning:Trainers use a variety of techniques to encourage learning:

At the Trainer’s Development Conference you learned the definitions of these techniques and how to choose the right technique for a particular situation.

At the Trainer’s Development Conference you learned the definitions of these techniques and how to choose the right technique for a particular situation.

Method/Technique/Retention Relationship

Method/Technique/Retention Relationship

Each training technique employs a particular learning method or combination of methods.

Each training technique employs a particular learning method or combination of methods.

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ExerciseExercise

• Consider the common training techniques.

• Analyze each to determine the learning method or methods.

• Determine the retention level.

• Discuss the Wood Badge curriculum and its probable success.

• Consider the common training techniques.

• Analyze each to determine the learning method or methods.

• Determine the retention level.

• Discuss the Wood Badge curriculum and its probable success.

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Confidence With MaterialConfidence With Material

• Know your material.• Prepare and “fingerprint” your session.• Review the Trainer’s Development

Conference.• Use visual aids to:

– Spark interest– Enhance learning– Facilitate learning– Increase retention

• Practice your presentation.

• Know your material.• Prepare and “fingerprint” your session.• Review the Trainer’s Development

Conference.• Use visual aids to:

– Spark interest– Enhance learning– Facilitate learning– Increase retention

• Practice your presentation.13

For teaching to be effective,

learning must take place.

For teaching to be effective,

learning must take place.

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