The document provides guidance on improving presentation skills. It outlines the aim to enhance presentation technique and confidence. It discusses why presentations are important and lists objectives like understanding audience, using varied tools, and gaining new skills. It offers tips such as using PowerPoint effectively, speaking from experience, being prepared, keeping it simple, asking questions, and getting feedback on a practice presentation. The overall message is that an effective presentation communicates clearly, engages the audience, and accomplishes learning objectives.

1. Presentation Skills
by Paul Hinckley

2. Aim
The aim of this presentation is to provide
you with the skills necessary to enhance
your own presentation technique, so that
by the end of the lesson you will have
more confidence and a greater
appreciation of how to create more
interesting presentations.

3. Objectives
• To understand why presentations are
important
• To appreciate the variety of tools available
to deliver information
• To gather new skills that will enhance our
own ability to present
• To gain confidence

4. Why?

5. Why?
How? What? Who?
When? Which? Where?

6. How do we learn?

7. How do we remember?

8. Environment
Group size
Level of prior knowledge
Time limit

9. Get your point across
Learning objectives
Competencies

10. Presenter
Qualified
Knowledgeable
Presentable
Confident

11. Don’t blag it!

12. Get your point across
Use PowerPoint realistically
Use props
Talk from experience
Encourage dialogue

13. Get your point across
Be objective
Respect other’s opinions

14. Get your point across
Be interesting
Use a “hook”

15. Get your point across
Communicate effectively
Speak appropriately
Listen
Non verbal comms

16. Be prepared!
Fail to prepare = prepare to fail
Varied ability
Dominance / apathy
IT failure

17. Keep it simple!

18. Questions?

19. Your turn…

20. Rules
1. Presentations must NOT exceed 3
minutes.
2. ANY form of teaching aid may be
used.
3. More than ONE method must be
employed.
4. EACH group member must actively
participate.

21. Group 1
Should marijuana be
legalised? If so, why?

22. Group 2
The Chinese language
should be compulsarily
taught in all UK state
schools.

23. Group 3
Cats or dogs?

24. Group 4
Jaffa cakes: cake or biscuit?

25. Group 5
Women are clearly better
drivers than men.

26. Group 6
David Platt: Coronation
Street’s evil genius?

27. Presentations
Monday 5th July 2010
1.00pm
Prizes for 1st, 2nd & 3rd!

28. Thank you!