Presentation skills A Refresher

By Aditi

Presentation SkillsGoals – Your goals & objectives drives the development of your

presentation. What is that you want to communicate - inform, persuade or sell What is that you want your audience to understand What is the outcome you want – a commitment or action

Include some examples & provide fact/details that help you achieve your objective but be crisp and avoid unnecessary details

Audience - The better you understand your audience the more you can tailor your presentation to their needs. Who is your target audience and how they are related to topic? What they know about the subject already and what they would be

interested in knowing? Are they interested/enthusiastic/hostile? Your reputation with target audience? Their expectation from the presentation?

Presentation SkillsPreparation – Design your presentation in sections.

Key message Arguments/fact that supports key message Action required from audience

Depending on your audience and their expected response towards the subject, you can prepare the presentation using negotiation/conflict resolution techniques. For example if you know that your audience may be hostile towards the subject then its better to start with the benefits to them.

Make sure you include fun activates, games, remarks etc to keep the audience engaged

Review & Rehearsal – Make sure you review your presentation with someone to fine tune it. Make sure to rehearse and to get the best try to use the same setup as in final presentation like using projector, audio/video equipments etc