PRESENTATIONS

GIVING A PRESENTATION ?> UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU SHOULD DO!

Don’t fail the task just because you don’t understand what you’ve got to do!

 

A presentation is used as an assessment tool in college, university and work. You may need to give a presentation as part of an important exam, to get a job or promotion in an assessment centre or to convince your boss or an important client.

 

In this video, I help you to understand what a presentation is and how it works as a communication tool. Then, I go on to explain what this means for you so that you can design and plan your presentation.

 

Understand the Task:

1. Definition of presentation

2. Design with this definition in mind

3. Seize the opportunity!

KEEPING ATTENTION

A successful presenter builds the relationship between the speaker – presenter – and the listeners – the audience.

 

One of the first steps for you in learning to be a successful presenter is to know how to structure your presentation to gain maximum attention from your listening audience.

 

In this video, I help you to understand how listeners pay attention and outline the critical phases of any presentation. Then, I go on to show you how to structure your presentation and how to verbalise that structure to a listening audience.

 

Attention – What Good Presenters Know!:

1. The Audience Memory Curve

2. Change the Curve!

3. Structure and Signpost.

CREATE IMPACT with the START & FINISH

Designing a great start and a great finish to your presentation can make all the difference!

 

If you are giving an exam or any kind of assessment presentation, your start and finish can make your presentation stand out from the crowd. They bookend your presentation providing impact together with a sense of completion, good management and well-prepared organisation.

 

The attention listening curve tells us that audiences tend to pay attention at the start and finish. These are two parts of your presentation that you need to design carefully to gain maximum impact.

 

How You Start and Finish:

  • introduction
  • start conventions
  • finish conventions
  • rhetorical questions
  • surprising & shocking facts
  • quotations
  • dramatic picture.
7 TOP TIPS TO STOP INFORMATION OVERLOAD

So many presentations fail because of bad design and preparation. Presenters put every piece of research and knowledge into their presentation and kill it with information overload.

 

Don’t be such a presenter!

 

Learn why listening audiences have cognitive overload and learn how they react to it.

 

Learn how you can succeed by designing your presentation so that you do not kill with information.

 

How to deal with information overload:

  • the reasons for information overload what happens with information overload
  • 7 top tips to avoid information overload
  • an exercise to improve both speaking & listening skills.
PRESENTATIONS AUDIENCES LOVE

Your success depends on you building a relationship between you as the speaker and you and the listener – your audience.

 

You need to connect.

 

And you connect in presentations by understanding about communication.

 

The person listening and/or examining your presentation has to listen for a longer time. So, it’s essential you understand how people listen so that you can design a presentation that is a joy to listen to. It is about respecting your audience and understanding the time and space they need to pay attention, process and remember your spoken messages.

 

Presenters, who do this, connect with the audience and win the listeners to their side. They give a presentation that is remembered long after the presentation is over – for all the right reasons.

 

This video takes you through the 5 steps of listening and then describes what you need to do as presenter to take each step into consideration.

3 SUPER POWERS TO UNLOCK THE WOW FACTOR

Great presenters really enjoy giving presentations that truly captivate and connect with their audiences.

 

In this video, you learn about 3 powers that such presenters use so that you can incorporate the WOW Factor in your own presentations.

 

Audiences will love your presentation and fully engage with your content and messages.

 

Learn about the:

  • Power of Mindset
  • Power of Silence
  • Power of You.
TODAY, I’LL BE SHOWING YOU 250 SLIDES AND THEY ALL LOOK LIKE THIS …! 

 

Using visual aids is a minefield and your presentation can live or die from the care you put or don’t put into the quality, relevance and design of the visual aids you use.

 

Don’t get caught in that minefield.

 

Use a map and strategy that boosts and supports your presentation.

 

In this video, I explore 7 questions and give you all the advice, tips and examples you need to succeed:

 

  • why do we use visual aids in presentations?
  • is the inclusion of all details and data on visual aids desirable and professional?
  • is a presentation handout a different document to the presentation slides?
  • should every visual aid lead to the Take Home Message?
  • when should you prepare the visual aid?
  • will visual aids change in the future?
  • is it acceptable to have spelling or grammar mistakes on slides? 
FROM CICERO TO STEVE JOBS TO YOU!
USE THE MAGIC 3 IN YOUR PRESENTATIONS

If the Rule of 3 was effective for Cicero, Shakespeare and Steve Jobs – it is going to be effective for you.

 

And it is really easy to use!

 

The more you do use it, the easier and more natural this will get until you find you are using 3s without thinking too much about it and communicating in an extremely effective way.

 

In this video:

 

  • The Rule of 3 – 3 is everywhere!
  • How the Rule of 3 works 
  • How you use the Rule of 3 with example presentation
  • Why is the Rule of 3 so effective?
THE POWER OF CONTRAST IN YOUR PRESENTATION

Create depth, tension and impact!

 

Contrast can be used in many different ways in your presentation.

 

You can structure your presentation with contrast, use contrasting emotions, design visual aids using contrast and build memorable striking images that stay in the minds of your audience long after the presentation itself is over.

 

And it’s easy!

 

All it takes is a little thought and imagination and you can leave a lasting impression.

 

This video takes you different techniques giving you numerous examples with explanations of how you can apply contrast:

 

  • this is contrast
  • overall structure
  • emotions
  • visual aids
  • opposites
  • not … but
  • comparatives
  • why is contrast effective?
YOU’VE GOT THE POWER! 

How to use vocabulary – POWER WORDS – to add impact to your presentations.

 

Carefully selecting and using a few useful “power” words can make all the difference to your presentation making it convincing, impactful and powerful.

 

This video outlines some power words and expressions that you can easily master in a short time:

 

  • delivering a message
  • 12 power words
  • why they work
  • how to learn them
  • additional words
  • how to find power words.
5 Quick Tips: How to Deliver a Presentation in English

Immediately add impact and drama to your presentations with these 5 Quick Tips that you can use very easily.

 

Making a good and lasting impression can depend on the way you deliver your presentation. If you are learning English, changing and adding a few little things can make all the difference.

 

These 5 tips will help you to vary the pacing, add interest and emphasise effectively in the right places so that you can lead your listening audience exactly to the place where you want them to be.

Storytelling – The Human Connection 

Storytelling can be an easier, more comfortable, more effective way for you to communicate in presentations.

 

Telling stories is natural – it’s part of our human DNA.

 

In this video, I outline the reasons why storytelling works and how you can use stories to maximum effect in your presentations:

 

  •  introduction
  • reasons why storytelling works
  • tips on how to tell stories
  • human DNA.