Mastering Presentation Delivery: Methods & Tips

1. Chapter 13 Delivering Your Presentation

2. Delivering Your Presentation • Methods of Delivery • Effective Verbal Delivery • Effective Nonverbal Delivery • Effective Presentation Aids • Final Tips for Rehearsing and Delivering Your Presentation

3. Methods of Delivery • Manuscript Speaking • Rarely done well enough to be interesting. • Guidelines • Type your manuscript in short, easy-to-scan phrases. • Use appropriate nonverbal messages. • Do not read the speech too quickly. • Vary the rhythm, inflections, and pace of your delivery. • Uses gestures and movement to add nonverbal interest.

4. Methods of Speech Delivery • Memorized Speaking • Guidelines • Do not deliver your memorized speech too rapidly. • Avoid patterns of vocal inflection that make the presentation sound recited. • Uses gestures and movement to add interest and emphasis to your message.

5. Methods of Speech Delivery • Impromptu Speaking • “Off the cuff” • Guidelines • Consider your audience. • Be brief. • Organize. • Draw upon your personal experience and knowledge. • Use gestures and movement that arise naturally from what you are saying. • Be aware of the potential impact of your communication.

6. Methods of Speech Delivery • Extemporaneous Speaking • Method of delivery preferred by most audiences. • Guidelines • Use a full-content preparation outline when you begin to rehearse your presentation. • Prepare an abbreviated delivery outline and speaking notes. • Do not try to memorize your message word for word. • As you deliver your presentation, adapt it to your audience.

7. Methods of Delivery RECAP Methods of Delivery Manuscript Reading a speech from written text. Memorized Giving a speech word for word from memory without using notes. Impromptu Delivering a presentation without advance preparation. Extemporaneous Speaking from a written or memorized outline without have memorized the exact wording of the presentation.

8. Using Words Well • Specific, Concrete Words • refers to an object or action in the most specific way possible • Unbiased Words • do not offend any sexual, racial, cultural, or religious group • Vivid Words • add color and interest to your language • Simple Words • immediately understandable • Correct Words

9. Chapter 13: Effective Nonverbal Delivery • Eye Contact • Physical Delivery • gestures • movement • Posture • Facial Expression

10. Effective Nonverbal Delivery • Vocal Delivery • volume • pitch • rate • Articulation • Appearance

11. Effective Nonverbal Delivery RECAP Characteristics of Nonverbal Delivery • Gestures should be relaxed, definite, varied, and appropriate. • Movement should be purposeful. • Posture should feel natural and be appropriate to your topic, audience, and occasion. • Eye contact should be established before you say anything and sustained throughout your presentation. • Facial expression should be alert, friendly, and appropriate. • Volume should be loud enough to be heard and varied. • Pitch should be varied to sustain audience interest. • Rate should be neither too fast nor too slow. • Articulation should be clear and distinct. • Appearance should conform to what the audience expects.

12. Effective Presentation Aids • The term presentation aid refers to any object that your audience can look at to help them understand your ideas. • Advantages • gain and maintain audience attention • communicate your organization of ideas • illustrate sequences of events or procedures • help your audience understand and remember your message

13. Types of Presentation Aids • Objects • Models • People • Drawings • Photographs • Maps • Graphs • bar • pie • line

14. Types of Presentation Aids • Charts • Videotapes • CD-ROMs and DVDs • Tapes and Audio CDs

15. Guidelines for Preparing Presentation Aids • Select the right presentation aids. • adapt to your audience • be aware of your specific purpose • consider your own skill and experience • take into account the room in which you will speak • Make your presentation aids easy to see. • Keep your presentation aids simple. • Polish your presentation aids.

16. Guidelines for Using Presentation Aids • Rehearse with your presentation aids. • Maintain eye contact with your audience, not your presentation aids. • Explain your presentation aids. • Time your presentation aids to coincide with your discussion of them. • Do not pass objects, or other small items among your audience. • Use handouts effectively.

17. Final Tips for Delivering Your Presentation • Finish your full-content outline several days before you must deliver the presentation. • Practice, practice, practice. • Practice good delivery skills while rehearsing. • If possible, practice your presentation for someone. • Tape record or videotape your presentation.