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Title: Business Presentation Skills


1
Business Presentation Skills
  • 2002, Edinburgh University
  • Presented by Brian Hood
  • Representing

2
Aims of the training
  • Build on existing experience of presenting
  • Introduce key concepts of presenting
  • Build confidence

3
Training content
  • Advantages of presenting
  • Six steps to presenting effectively
  • Common failings of presenters
  • WIIFM factor
  • Structuring the presentation
  • Five key techniques first few minutes
  • Visual aids
  • Presentations Putting it all into practice!

4
Advantages of presenting
  • Address the multiple senses
  • Increase your credibility
  • Effective use of time
  • High profile
  • Persuasive

5
Six steps of presenting effectively
  • Decide what your purpose is
  • Think about the audience
  • Gather data
  • Apply suitable structure
  • How open?
  • How close?

6
Common failings of presenters
  • Not bold enough
  • Rejecting the audience
  • Showing nerves
  • Poor use of visual aids
  • Speaking for too long
  • Poor preparation
  • Being clever!

7
  • The WIIFM Factor

8
Structuring the presentation
  • Tell them what you are going to tell them
  • Tell them
  • Tell them what you just told them

9
Five key techniques
  • The interesting fact
  • The challenging rhetorical question
  • The relevant quotation
  • The shared history
  • The personal story / your expert opinion!

10
First few minutes
  • Be aware of
  • Negative body language
  • The unfunny joke
  • The overbearing expert!

11
Handling questions...
  • Know your audience as best you can
  • Recoginse influential/expert members of your
    audience at the outset
  • Paraphrase back to ensure understanding
  • Answer honestly, get back later if necessary
  • Respond in a focused way
  • Check you have answered the query

12
Visual aids
  • Information taken in through the senses

13
Visual aids
  • Make use of facilities at hand i.e. PowerPoint
  • Dont over use the technology
  • Make your slides clear and not too detailed
  • Utilise other visual aids such as flipcharts,
    whiteboards etc

14
Conclusion
  • Refining your ability to present will become
    increasingly important every day of your working
    life and is an assessable part of your project.

15
Summary
  • Advantages of presenting
  • Six steps to presenting effectively
  • Common failings of presenters
  • WIIFM factor
  • Structuring the presentation
  • Five key techniques first few minutes
  • Visual aids

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Presentations Putting it all into practice!
  • Split into 3 groups
  • Choose a topic you all agree on i.e. the collapse
    of the SPL, The benefits of studying CS at
    Edinburgh University
  • Take ½ hour to prepare a short 5 minute
    presentation using acetates
  • Identify 1 person to present your topic
  • We will then have the three presentations
    followed by feedback from the group and myself
  • Remember this is a no risk environment and is
    aimed to give you some practice with the key
    techniques
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