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How to deliver an effective presentation

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Start: Lay solid foundations

  • Who 🡪 Introduction, credentials
  • Why 🡪 The purpose of the presentation 🡪 Linked to the conclusion 🡪 Most important part of your presentation
  • What 🡪 Outline: key points, takeaways
  • How 🡪 Time, notes, handouts

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Finish: Make your final message clear

  • Signal
              • Summary 🡪 Reflection of your ‘what’

🡪 brief overview

🡪 Builds up to your conclusion

  • Conclusion 🡪 Reflection of your ‘why’

🡪 Call for action

🡪 Recommendation, audience are better informed

  • Closing remarks 🡪 thanks, questions

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How do signposts work?

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Top your techniques

  • Rhetorical questions
  • Repetition, repetition
  • Contrast
  • Examples
  • Delivery: pace

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practice

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Write a rhetorical question that could go before these statements

  • We employ around 150 university graduates in Morocco.
  • No, we’ve never used an external company on this kind of project.
  • The next step is to arrange a meeting with the client.
  • I strongly recommend launching a new research group at the department.

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Write a rhetorical question that could go after these statements

  • We’ve solved the problem.
  • We are going to have to go after new business in the next year.
  • This is not the first time we have made such a mistake.
  • To tell the truth, I found this quite a difficult task.

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Correct the rhetorical questions

  1. What means this?
  2. What did we have done?
  3. How often speak you English in meetings?
  4. Does the client accepts our changes?
  5. What does we doing about this?

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Opposites

Create examples of sentences with opposites similar to these examples

  • You should always prepare your presentations and never rely on PowerPoint.
  • We need to attack the competition and not just defend our market position.
  • We don’t want to be behind the curve, but in front of it.
  • The changes we have made are designed not to confuse but to simplify.

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Delivery: Pace

Practice reading these statements and pause in each “//” symbol

  • I don’t argue // that you you might have // a good reason to pollute // but when your kids grow up ...
  • You have to // not only obey the road rules // but take care of // the people on the road.
  • Because you are responsible // not only for your life // but for the life of your passengers as well.

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�To practice the start and ending of a presentation,�1) write an opener and closer for a presentation about: “How to succeed your next job interview”. �2) Record yourself with a camera and post your video �

Opener

1. Give a confident introduction

2. Give your credentials

3. Deliver your hook

4. Introduce your agenda

5. Give a credible statement

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Closer

Signal the end of the presentation

Summarize your takeaways

Call for action

Here’s a reminder of the steps to follow: