1. Presentation Skills
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2. What is Presentation?
• Sharing information effectively
• Success in life depends on
presenting ideas in an
appropriate manners
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3. Feat the Fright..!!!!
Stage Fright..!!!!
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4. The Book of Lists: Fears
10. Dogs
9. Loneliness
8. Flying
7. Death
6. Sickness
5. Deep Water
4. Financial Problems
3. Insects and Bugs
2. Heights
1. Speaking Before a Group
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5. GENERAL GUIDELINES
The Key is “POPTA”
What does POPTA stand for?

6. General Guidelines
• Purpose
o You need to define your purpose for giving the
presentation
• Teach, Persuade, Prove, Review, Expository, Impress, Put to
Sleep, Entertain?
o Don’t tell them everything you did, you’ll bore them

7. General Guidelines
• Organization
o Always have an outline
o Tell them what you’re going to tell them, then tell them,
then tell them what you told them
• Hint: I am doing this for this presentation
o Problem then solution
• Not just “data then solution” or “solution then problem”

8. General Guidelines
• Preparation
o An unprepared presenter loses the audience before even
starting
o Practice makes perfect and builds confidence
o Arrive early, make sure everything is set up
o Dress appropriately
o Slides should be done well in advance

9. General Guidelines
• Time
o Be sure you know how much time you have while
preparing the presentation
o It is better to end early than to go over
o You’ll never have enough time to tell everything so stick
to the most important

10. General Guidelines
• Audience
o Be sure you know your audience well
o Tailor presentation to your audience
• Failure to do this is probably the biggest mistake people make
• You should never give the same presentation twice
o Are there multiple audiences?
• If so, direct different slides to different audiences

11. Which one Is Important in Presentation?
• Body language accounts for 55% of the success of your presentation.
• The clarity of your voice accounts for 38% of the success of your
presentation.
• What you actually say accounts for 7% of the success of your
presentation.
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12. I. Information Structure
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13. 1. Introduction
• Announce your topic.
• Give a starting
statement.
• Ask a provocative
question.
• Tell a story, quotation,
joke, etc.
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14. 2. Body
• Define the major points.
• Organize your ideas.
• Provide as much
evidence as you can.
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15. 3. Conclusion
• Conclude your ideas.
• Leave an impression.
• State clearly what you
want the audience to
take with them.
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16. II. Nonverbal skills
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17. 1. Appearance
• Be formal & decent.
• Focus on the
message not the
outfit.
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18. 2. Posture
• Stand straight.
• Appear confident.
• Be relaxed.
• No hands in pockets.
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19. Gestures
• Use Gestures. They
increase the audience
understanding.
• Make your movements
meaningful.
• Avoid exaggeration.
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20. 4. Eye contact
• Address all the audience.
• Maintain eye contact
with everybody.
• Don’t stare at others
more than 5 seconds.
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21. 5. Facial Expressions
Facial expressions are important because
they:
• Mirror emotions.
• Set tone and mood.
• Make the audience feel comfortable.
• Example: A speaker without any
expression on his / her face makes the
audience worried and unwilling to
participate in any conversation.
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22. III. verbal skills
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23. 1. Voice
• Vary the pitch.
 Don’t always speak in low
voice, so it becomes boring,
nor in high voice, so it
becomes disturbing.
• Stress important words.
• Vary the pace.
 Speak neither too fast nor too
slow.
• Don’t lose clarity.
 Don’t speak in such a low
voice that no body can hear
you.
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24. 2. Waffling
Waffling is speaking in an unclear way.
• Avoid using too many non words:
um, er, uh, ….., etc.
• Avoid using too many connectors:
and, but, so…etc.
• Avoid using too many nonworking
words: ok, well, you know.
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25. III. Techniques
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26. 1. Audience Involvement
• Use Names.
• Invite Participation.
• Ask Questions.
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27. 2. Humor
• Tell amusing stories
• Avoid long jokes
• Make humor deliver
the message.
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28. 3. Visual Aids
Use your visual aids effectively.
Show pictures, movies,
interviews or charts that are
related to your topics
Choose the most convenient aid
for you presentation.
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29. Slide Do’s and Don’ts
• “PowerPoint doesn’t give presentations –
PowerPoint makes slides”
o From microsoft.com website
• Don’t put everything on the slide

30. Slide Do’s and Don’ts
• Don’t use yellow text
o Do use dark text and bold
• Do use formatting and color to emphasize
• Don’t include unrelated pictures

31. Slide Do’s and Don’ts
• Do save your file using “embedded fonts”
o File menu->Save As->Tools (in upper right hand
corner)->Save Options->Embed True Type Fonts

32. Slide Do’s and Don’ts
• Do use a light background like this

33. Slide Do’s and Don’ts
• Or like this

34. Slide Do’s and Don’ts
• Or like this

35. Slide Do’s and Don’ts
• Don’t use a dark background like this
o Even if using a lighter font color
o Harder to read, especially from the back
o More likely to put people asleep
o Handouts often don’t look very good

36. Navigation in PowerPoint
• To start slide show mode
o F5 (Automatically takes you to start of presentation)
• To end slide show mode
o Escape

37. Navigation in PowerPoint
• Home
To go to the beginning slide
• End
To go to last slide
• Type the slide #, then Enter
To jump to any particular slide
• B
Black screen
• W
White screen

38. Answer the audience’s Questions
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39. Thank Your
Audience
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