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Mastering Oral Presentations: Key Concepts & Steps

Enhance your oral communication skills with this detailed guide on planning, delivering, and assessing successful oral presentations. Learn the key concepts and steps involved in creating impactful speeches. Perfect for students and professionals seeking to improve their public speaking abilities.

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Mastering Oral Presentations: Key Concepts & Steps

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  1. Oral Communications

  2. Oral Communication • Meetings • Conference calls • Telephone calls • Presentations • Video or audio recordings • Giving Directions • Other forms of oral communication

  3. Oral Communications • Used slideshow created in Foundation Skills section of CTAERN Resource cd for Oral Communications. • PowerPoint slideshow and Oral Communication Test are available. • The following 15 slides are the Foundation Skills Oral Communications slide show.

  4. Oral Communication Georgia CTAE Resource Network Instructional Resource Office To accompany curriculum for the Georgia Peach State Career Pathways April 2009, Kayla Calhoun & Dr. Frank Flanders

  5. Objectives • Recall the key concepts of oral communication • Define the three elements of oral communication • List the steps for planning a successful oral presentation • Design a presentation outline using the 9 steps of oral communication • Describe the strengths and weaknesses of a presentation

  6. Oral Communication Defined • Expressing ideas and information as well as influencing others through the spoken word • Can also include nonverbal communication • Important for any career, whether you use it in informal conversations or business presentations • Key Concepts: speaker, message, channel, receiver, feedback, noise, context

  7. Three Elements of Oral Communication • Content: information conveyed in presentation • Organization: structure of presentation • Delivery: means of communication

  8. Steps for Planning a Successful Oral Presentation • Determine a general purpose • Analyze the audience • Choose a specific purpose • Research the topic • Organize and outline the presentation • Visual aids • Practice • Delivery • Assessment

  9. Step 1Determine a General Purpose • Purposes: • Inform • Persuade • Entertain/move

  10. Step 2Analyze the Audience • Relate your message to your audience’s knowledge, beliefs, and interests • Study demographic data • Consider size, setting, and prior disposition toward the topic and yourself • Important to present the most relevant information while avoiding offense

  11. Step 3Specific Purpose • Narrow your topic • Ex: • General purpose: inform • Specific purpose: Provide information about the current issues affecting Georgia agriculture • Should be explicitly stated in introduction

  12. Step 4Research Topic • Gathering facts, figures, testimony, and examples • Establishes credibility • Competence: speaker’s knowledge of subject • Character: speaker’s trustworthiness

  13. Step 5Organizing and Outlining • Introduction • Attention-getter • Thesis • Preview statement • Body: 2-5 main points • Conclusion • Summary of main points • Strong concluding statement

  14. Step 5 continuedOrganizing and Outlining • Organizational patterns • Chronological • Spatial • Topical • Cause-effect • Problem-solution • Connectives • Transitions, internal previews and summaries, signposts

  15. Step 6Visual Aids • Should add to the presentation • Visible to audience • Talk to audience, not visual aid • Explain visual aids to audience • Can be PowerPoint, graph, chart, DVD, transparency, people, etc.

  16. Step 7Practice • Delivery methods: • Manuscript • Memorization • Extemporaneous • Impromptu • Be sure to practice using visual aids • Time your presentation

  17. Step 8 continuedDelivery • Voice: volume, pitch, pauses, articulation, pronunciation • 60% of meaning from nonverbal cues • Gestures, eye contact, posture, facial expressions • Physical appearance • Environment • Being late and rushing through presentation

  18. Step 9Assess • Ask for feedback from the audience • Identify strengths and weaknesses of your presentation Slides 4-18 were used from CTAE Resource Foundation Skills lesson plans

  19. Oral DIRECTIONS Activities • Developing Listening Skills Activity • Developing Listening Skills Handout • Developing Skills for Understanding Handout • Following Directions Handouts • Students complete three activities about following directions. • Telephone Etiquette Project

  20. Oral Communication Project • Prepare an oral presentation based on the handouts given – Informative Oral Presentation, Grading Rubric, and Self Reflection. • Each student will present their topic to the class • Classmates will evaluate each presenter and observe and record nonverbal communication gestures used during the presentation.

  21. Written Communication Activities • Literal Writing Activity

  22. Written DIRECTIONS ACTIVITY • Use literal (precise) writing for accurate information in giving directions • Make a Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich or • Wrap a Gift

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