Effective Oral Presentations

1. Effective Oral Presentations Supplement to Marketing Strategy 2005

2. Basic Components of Presentation • Opening • Capturing Interest • Body/Purpose • To Inform or Persuade • Closing

3. Easiest Way to Move Through Presentation • P Point • R Reason • E Example • P Point

4. Eye Contact • Eye contact conveys message to audience • 55% eye • 38% tone of voice • 7% words we speak

5. Eye Contact • Looks good from audience • You’ll have the sense of talking one on one which is less threatening to you • Helps eliminate chances of going blank • Provides you with feedback

6. Eye Contact – Big Group Pick out 9 contact points

7. Rules for Making Visuals • One Idea per slide • Two Colors • Keep it Simple • Title All Slides • 6x6 Maximum format • Use Phrases not Sentences • Use Pictures and Graphs

8. Visual Note You want the eyes of the audience on you, not on the slide.

9. Presentation Do’s • Talk to Audience, NOT Visual • Practice Does Produce Professionalism • Be Prepared (transparencies, handouts, zip disk, regular disk)

10. Presentation-Don’t • Scan the Audience • Look at notes and look up • Look over their heads • Look at floor/ceiling • Look at the same person • Stand in Front of Visual • Cross in Front of Visual

11. Additional Thoughts • Use pictures, charts – we comprehend pictures faster than words • Colors – Blue Background, Yellow Text • If interrupted, don’t take eye off audience • Anticipate questions

12. Practice • Library Media Center • Studio – Will video tape • AND provide coaching • 372-3544