Effective Oral Presentations

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Effective Oral Presentations

• Supplement to
• Marketing Strategy 2005

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Basic Components of Presentation

• Opening
• Capturing Interest
• Body/Purpose
• To Inform or Persuade
• Closing

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Easiest Way to Move Through Presentation

• P Point
• R Reason
• E Example
• P Point

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Eye Contact

• Eye contact conveys message to audience
• 55 eye
• 38 tone of voice
• 7 words we speak

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Eye Contact

• Looks good from audience
• Youll have the sense of talking one on one which
  is less threatening to you
• Helps eliminate chances of going blank
• Provides you with feedback

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Eye Contact Big Group

• Pick out 9 contact points

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Rules for Making Visuals

• One Idea per slide
• Two Colors
• Keep it Simple
• Title All Slides
• 6x6 Maximum format
• Use Phrases not Sentences
• Use Pictures and Graphs

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Visual Note

• You want the eyes of the audience on you, not on
  the slide.

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Presentation Dos

• Talk to Audience, NOT Visual
• Practice Does Produce Professionalism
• Be Prepared (transparencies, handouts, zip disk,
  regular disk)

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Presentation-Dont

• Scan the Audience
• Look at notes and look up
• Look over their heads
• Look at floor/ceiling
• Look at the same person
• Stand in Front of Visual
• Cross in Front of Visual

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Additional Thoughts

• Use pictures, charts we comprehend pictures
  faster than words
• Colors Blue Background, Yellow Text
• If interrupted, dont take eye off audience
• Anticipate questions

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Practice

• Library Media Center
• Studio Will video tape
• AND provide coaching
• 372-3544