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Presentation Skills

Presentation Skills. General Dental Council Sandra Bull. Objectives. Defining your current skills level – delegates deliver elements of an existing GDC presentation to the group.

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Presentation Skills

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  1. Presentation Skills General Dental Council Sandra Bull

  2. Objectives • Defining your current skills level – delegates deliver elements of an existing GDC presentation to the group. • Taking regulatory content, reconfirming the objective of the presentation and strengthening your message by making it your own. • The role for preparation – researching your target group. • Supporting your message for maximum impact. • Setting the scene – your credibility zone. • Effective openings and closes – inform, engage and motivate to act. • Techniques to improve the impact of your presentations – using ideas, storytelling, use of visuals and more. • Building effective visual aids – avoiding death by PowerPoint. • Identifying your links and pause points – presenting fluently.

  3. Objectives • Developing your ‘natural self’ – how to loosen up your style and feel at ease. • Choice of language – communicating your message with passion and connecting with your audience. • The role for body language – adding energy to the presentation. • Voice – how tone, timing and volume can affect your credibility and impact. • Calling for action, closing the presentation. • Communicating with confidence – controlling nerves, channelling adrenalin. • Dealing with challenging audience members and answering their questions. • Revisiting your initial presentation – delivery of a reworked version.

  4. Your five minute presentation

  5. Common reaction!

  6. Engaging your audience

  7. Making your point

  8. Making an impact

  9. Your presentation tool kit

  10. Defining the objective

  11. What do you know about your audience?

  12. What would be useful to know? • Job titles • Experience • Organisational culture • Expectations • Objectives • Agendas • Personalities • Communication preferences • Turn ons and turn offs

  13. Clarity of message Review all required content Reconfirm your primary points, further develop each point Combine and condense Ensure order that flows Build the ‘I’ factor to support each point and make it memorable

  14. The ‘I’ factor Research, insight, opinion Facts, figures, evidence Stories, analogies, metaphors Opinion, thought, quotes

  15. The importance of a framework • Strong framework helps you to memorise the message • Consider telling a story, sharing a journey, building a verbal picture • Build to your central message, then build again • Only include what is relevant and interesting • Consider the suitability of any references you may make

  16. Simple framework Opening – the “ta dah” Body – your primary message Close – think this, do this

  17. Supporting the body of your presentation

  18. Links

  19. The role for slides • Don’t use slides as a crutch • Don’t overwhelm with text and figs • Never use full sentences • Demonstrate the point you are making with a strong visual • Consider the role for symbolism • See your slide as a back drop, illustrating what you are saying

  20. Engaging the senses

  21. Sensory preferences

  22. Shaping language Business language – neutral, abstract, distant Enriched language – appealing to senses, active

  23. Adding flavour Sprinkle rhetorical questions Pause to underline and accentuate Build suspense Use humour Consider variety of visual aids / props

  24. Getting started Introduce yourself and try to relax! Outline the objective of the presentation Outline your route identifying your key messages Tell them what you’re going to tell them

  25. The “Ta Dah” Opening A quote A question A fact A challenging statement A relevant story A stimulating visual

  26. Your ending

  27. The summary Don’t come to a screeching full stop, or tail off Build up slowly to your final point Restate your intended objective and key points Tell them what you’ve told them Tell them what to do and think Invite feedback and questions

  28. Your physical delivery Use your regular everyday conversational voice Always use your own words Avoid complicated sentence structure Avoid wild variations in your intonational pitch pattern

  29. The power of visualisation

  30. Voice projection – common problems • Lack of projection • Fading out • Mumbling • Throat clearing • Monotonous • Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit • Appendages

  31. Voice specifics Speed Tone Pace Pauses Breathing

  32. What does your voice say about you?

  33. What does your body language say about you?

  34. Silent messages… 55% of communication comes from body language 38% comes from the tone of voice and only 7% from the verbal message Albert Mehrabian

  35. Body Language ‘It was how you looked when you said it, not what you actually said.’ Studies reveal that we judge people within 5 seconds of meeting them, and that only 7% of the first impression we make is a result of what we say. The other 93% is made up of body language and posture (55%) and vocal aspects like tone and clarity (38%). It takes around 20 additional meetings with a person to change the first impression of them.

  36. Things to consider

  37. Handling challenging audiences Disengagement Disruptive behaviour Tangents Combative conversation Interruptions

  38. Final advice? Rehearse Rehearse Rehearse

  39. Over to you…

  40. Objectives • Defining your current skills level – delegates deliver elements of an existing GDC presentation to the group. • Taking regulatory content, reconfirming the objective of the presentation and strengthening your message by making it your own. • The role for preparation – researching your target group. • Supporting your message for maximum impact. • Setting the scene – your credibility zone. • Effective openings and closes – inform, engage and motivate to act. • Techniques to improve the impact of your presentations – using ideas, storytelling, use of visuals and more. • Building effective visual aids – avoiding death by PowerPoint. • Identifying your links and pause points – presenting fluently.

  41. Objectives • Developing your ‘natural self’ – how to loosen up your style and feel at ease. • Choice of language – communicating your message with passion and connecting with your audience. • The role for body language – adding energy to the presentation. • Voice – how tone, timing and volume can affect your credibility and impact. • Calling for action, closing the presentation. • Communicating with confidence – controlling nerves, channelling adrenalin. • Dealing with challenging audience members and answering their questions. • Revisiting your initial presentation – delivery of a reworked version.

  42. sandra@360training.co.uk Join our network - http://uk.linkedin.com/in/360trainingliz Join the conversation - @360trainingLtd @AllyDawkins

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