Module 20

Module 20

• 1.
  + Making Oral Presentations Module 20 and Additional Notes
• 2.
  + ―Take-Aways‖  What do you want your audience to do?  Always actions.  Change a behavior?  Change an attitude?  Buy something?
• 3.
  + ―Take-Aways‖  Make them clear and explicit.  Gives your audience a chance to make sure they understand the points you want them to understand.
• 4.
  + ―Take-Aways‖  Limit your main ideas to the smallest number you can.  Spend your time—supporting , clarifying, offering evidence, examples, interaction, etc.—in the service of that point.
• 5.
  + Why is this a presentation, not a document?  Do you really need to present this?  What does your presentation do that a document can’t?  Expensive and inefficient to make a presentation when the information could have been distributed as a document.  Advantages/Disadvantages of one strategy vs. the other?
• 6.
  + Opening/Closing  Relevance/Importance  Preview/Summary – Take-aways.  Framing Techniques (quotes, stories, analogies, metaphors, goals, missions, etc.)  Close: look to the future, positive emphasis, call to action.
• 7.
  + Body Language  Gestures  Stance  Podium  Visual Cues  Relationship to your visuals  Eye contact  The speaker dance
• 8.
  + Voice  Project to the back of the room  Tone: Confident and/or conversational
• 9.
  + General Principles  Enjoy yourself  Positive emphasis  You-attitude
• 10.
  + Questions from the audience  Restate the question.  Shows you’re listening.  Allows you to reshape the question.  Allows the ―asker‖ to clarify.
• 11.
  + Questions from the audience  Ask for clarification if you don’t understand something about the question.  You don’t want to answer a question the asker didn’t ask. Makes you look like a bad listener. Wastes the asker’s and the audience’s time.
• 12.
  + Questions from the audience  Internally identify the asker’s best possible intentions.  Frame your response within those possibilities.  People generally don’t ask questions just to be jerks.  But be careful.
• 13.
  + Questions from the audience  Plant a backup question. Just in case.
• 14.
  + Questions from the audience  Keep your answers direct and succinct.  Check in with the asker to make sure you’ve answered their question.
• 15.
  + Practice, Practice, Practice  With your team  In front of a generous audience (trusted, helpful)  On-camera (here your voice; see your body language)  Get your timing down  Avoid a sense of ―winging it‖ – project preparation
• 16.
  + Focus on Structure  Opening  Transitions – more than just a hand-off  Content  Closing  Unity/Consistency  Avoid redundancies
• 17.
  + Have a backup plan  If the technology doesn’t work  If a team member doesn’t show up  If the audience asks a question for which you are unprepared
• 18.
  + Prepare to adjust  Have a system of communication in place to help keep each other on track  Small window of time; must be able to adjust and compensate
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• 20.
  + Thanks.