This document provides tips for giving effective presentations and overcoming public speaking fears. It recommends knowing your audience, organizing your speech into an introduction, body and conclusion, and writing and practicing your presentation. Specific tips include using humor, incorporating gestures, handling nervousness through preparation, making a strong first impression, and using prompt cards appropriately. The document emphasizes the importance of thorough preparation to give a polished presentation.

1. Good Presentation Skills

2. A “No Sweat Situation”
The Painless Way to Successful
Speaking

3. Tips On How To Get Over
Glossophobia
 Know your audience. Different strokes
for Different folks.
 Organize your speech
 Write your speech/presentation
 Practise correctly
 Know how to handle nervousness

4. Organize your speech
The introduction, the body, the closing
 The introduction
 Be dramatic
 Tell a joke
 Pose a question
 The body
 Use a formal outline
 Closing
 Witty line

5. Writing your Speech/
Presentation
 Do it yourself
 Keep it simple and to the point
 Keep the writing conversational
 Use personal examples
 Humor almost always helps
 REWRITE your speech till you are
satisfied

6. Practise Correctly
Methods of practice
 Stand in front of a full-length mirror
 Tape record or (even better) videotape
yourself
 Gather together some friends, family, sit them
down, and deliver your whole spiel to them
 Rehearse small sections of your speech
throughout the day.
 See if you can memorize sections without
relying on the notes at all.

7. Incorporate Gestures
 Less is more.
 Practice your gestures in front of the
mirror
 Make your gestures convincing, smooth
and well timed
 SMILE - relax
 Turn nervousness into positive energy.

8. Adding Humor
to Presentations
 It is an extraordinary
learning tool
 When people are
enjoying themselves,
you can relax and
enjoy yourself too

9. Explain : Workstation
A police station is where the policemen stop.
A train station is where the train stops.
I have a work station.

10. Techniques to handle
Nervousness
Physical preparation
 A clean mouth is a happy mouth.
 Look presentable. Nice hair, clothes, nails. Dress to
impress. Go to the bathroom about a half-hour before
the speech.
 Do Deep breathing exercises
 If hand gestures are a part of your presentation,
shake up your hands
 Vocal exercises help. Prepare your mouth
 BE CONFIDENT!
(Even if you're not, fake it)

11. First Impressions
 The audience's initial impression of you is
made within the first three seconds of your
appearance.
 The audience wants you to succeed!"
 A mistake will not matter much.
 Don't over apologize.

12. Using Notes/Prompt Cards
 Key points – not paras of text. (Just enough to jog your memory)
 Quotes, statistics, lists.
 TYPING EVERYTHING IN UPPER CASE, MAKES
IT MORE DIFFICULT TO READ.
 Don’t use unstapled sheets.
 Don’t be afraid to leave your prompt cards and move
away.

13. What NOT To Do When
Making a Presentation
 Try to fool the audience
 Read it from your text
 Use inside stories
 Make your audience the butt of a
joke.
 Go over the time limit

14. Prepare, Prepare & Prepare!
Remember
The only difference between an amateur
and a professional is that:
An Amateur is one who keeps doing it till
he gets it right.
A Professional is one who keeps doing it
so that he doesn’t get it wrong.