Presentation Skills Training

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Presentation Skills Training

• PROJECT BY FAITHHUB
• By Mehboob Mohideen
• 15 November 2003

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Presentation Skills Training

• 1. Plan
• 2. Do
• 3. Check
• 4. Action

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Presentation Skills - Plan

• In Islam, everything we do needs to have a
  Intention or we call it the AIM of the
  presentation.
• What do you want to accomplish ? Write these down
  first before you even start. Lets try.

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Presentation Skills - Do

• Now that you understand your AIM, lets get down
  to the real work to accomplish those goals .
  Yes, lets DO it Just Do IT but you will ask,
  how to do it ?
• Help is on its way

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Presentation Skills - Do

• When someone does a presentation, what are you
  looking for ? Pretend that you are the audience
  and try to recall what you think will be a good
  presentation.
• Think and lets discuss what these are

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Presentation Skills - Do

• These are the areas you might be looking for
• 1. Eyes
• 2. Ears
• 3. Heart
• 4. Touch
• 5. Group participation Feedback session

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Presentation Skills Do (Eyes)

• Dress Appropriately imagine when someone wears
  slippers or a bright pink shirt !!
• Hide your Nervousness. How .. Hold the podium.
• Keep eye contact with the audience.
• Communicate with your eyes.
• Use suitable tools like whiteboard, computer,flip
  chart. It will be good to have a variety of tools
  to break the monotony.

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Presentation Skills Do (Ears)

• Need to vary your voice lets practice.
• Make sure the furthest person from you can hear
  you. Check if they can hear by asking them. If
  they cannot hear you, you have lost them and this
  can have a chain reaction example if they stand
  up and leave the room.
• Use humor or stories to break the ice.
• Use different tones to express your emotions
  example loud when angry and soft when afraid.

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Presentation Skills Do (Heart)

• People are like children. They love stories to be
  told to them. Practice with your children at
  home.
• Relate your own experience or from someone close
  to you. This gives credibility to the speaker
  example tell them how you were lazy too and did
  not pray till a much later age but AlHamdulilah,
  things are different now because of the
  realization that has taken place. Tell them you
  understand the challenges to pray amongst the
  youth nowadays.

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Presentation Skills Do (Touch)

• It will be good to provide objects for people to
  touch, feel and keep something for themselves
  example handouts, samples depending on what you
  are trying to do.
• Demonstrate through example or role play if
  possible.

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Presentation Skills Do (Group Participation -
Feedback)

• Always ask for feedback so that you can clarify
  the doubts or mis-understandings immediately.
• Always praise people for asking questions
  regardless of what type of question it is. This
  will make people feel good about you and probably
  will get the dialogue going.
• Never insult anybody or become defensive. Always
  look at questions positively even when they
  accuse you of not doing something for them. You
  should say that it is a good feedback and that
  you will look into it.

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Presentation Skills - Check

• Throughout the presentation, you need to check
  around. Check if the audience are feeling too
  hot, too tired etc. Turn down the air conditioner
  or give them a break if they need one.
• Always keep eye contact with them because this is
  one good way to get feedback from the audience
  and this builds a bond between both of you
  despite the large audience.
• Always remedy the issue immediately. If someone
  says he does not have a handout, ask him to share
  with his neighbor till you can get another copy
  made for him.

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Presentation Skills - Action

• Always keep a notepad to take down the questions
  so that you can follow up on the issues.
• This can also be used to wrap up the presentation
  by summarizing the points taken down during the
  feedback session. This shows sincerity.

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Presentation Skills - Exercise

• Make a presentation on introducing yourself to
  the Team. Objectives are
• 1. Introduce yourself.
• 2. Begin speaking before a group.
• 3. Should have a clear beginning, body and
  ending.