6
Presentation Skills For Powerful Delivery
Make
sure you know the following six
presentation skills
to ensure your delivery is powerful, easy to
listen to, and convincing:
Principle
Ideas
For
your presentation to have any effect, you, the
speaker, need to identify in your preparation
the principle ideas in your
material. If you don't know what the principle
ideas are how can the audience be expected to
identify them.
Usually
principle ideas come down to 2
or 3 main points.
Once these are identified in the preparation
stage, the speaker can concentrate on supporting
points or additional material to add force to
these key ideas thus making them stand out.
Accurate
Reading
When reading a quotation with the audience following
along in their own printed copy, pay special
attention to accurate reading. Stumbling,
mispronouncing words, reading what's not there,
all take away from your authority. So be a good
reader!
If
accurate reading is a problem, practice!
If
you are going to quote, make sure you have practiced
the reading beforehand so you can read with
feeling, proper sense, and poise.
Be
Coherent
This
public speaking tip will do much to make your
presentation easy to listen to. For it to flow
and be coherent,
employ a wide variety of connecting expressions.
These words and phrases provide a bridge and
a smooth transition, helping the audience glide
easily from one point to the next.
| Here
is a list of transitional expressions
you may wish to use: |
likewise
for these reasons
therefore
on the other hand
similarly
so then
on the contrary
in addition
furthermore
hence
also
|
Make
liberal use of connecting words |
Express
It Your Way
Be
careful when expressing thoughts as they appear
in print from a particular source, unless of
course you make it clear you are making a direct
quotation. Just repeating it the way it is written
can make you sound stiff and formal.
Far
better to absorb the idea or thought and express
it in your
own words
and style so it comes across in a conversational
way.
Regressions
Watch
out for the regressions habit.
This is when a speaker starts to say something,
then stops in the middle of a sentence, then
starts a new thought or sentence while leaving
the previous expression unfinished.
Doing
this repeatedly can drive an audience to the
point of distraction.
The
Sound Check
Personally
do a sound
check
before your presentation. Make sure you are
in the room early, talk with the sound operators
and physically check the microphone.
This
will give you an idea of how your voice sounds
with amplification in that specific environment
and how you need to use the microphone to be
heard clearly.
Integrate
the six presentation skills listed above into
your presentation preparation and delivery strategy
and feel a great boost in your self-confidence
as a public speaker.
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