How to Make an Effective Oral Presentation
Published on Dec 02, 2015
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How to Make an Effective Oral Presentation
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Components
- Verbal
- Vocal
- Visual
Verbal
- Outline (Power of Three)
- Concise content
- Examples
Make an outline of your presentation.
Use the Power of Three. (Break down your presentation into 3 key points.) This helps focus the audience's attention.
KISSSSPAA - Go straight to the point. Avoid beating around the bush because that will only confuse your audience.
Give examples to help your audience understand what you mean. This streamlines or narrows down the discussion to more specific and applicable real-life situations.
Use the Power of Three. (Break down your presentation into 3 key points.) This helps focus the audience's attention.
KISSSSPAA - Go straight to the point. Avoid beating around the bush because that will only confuse your audience.
Give examples to help your audience understand what you mean. This streamlines or narrows down the discussion to more specific and applicable real-life situations.
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Other Helpful Tips
- Familiarize the outline.
- Improvise and ad-lib.
- Use transitional phrases.
- Pause.
- Summarize.
Memorize the outline, not the full text.
Reinvent the words you used in your outline as you speak. This makes your content more relatable and unique to that presentation.
Use transitional phrases. This helps the presentation glide through the key points, rather than making it completely mechanical.
Pause instead of using filler words like uhh and err. This allows you to organize your thoughts better.
Summarize by part and at the end.
-Summarize the part's ideas before moving to another topic. Ex. In a paragraph, you have the thesis statement to highlight its main idea.
-Summarize your discussion before ending your presentation. Help your audience zoom back out to the bigger picture.
Reinvent the words you used in your outline as you speak. This makes your content more relatable and unique to that presentation.
Use transitional phrases. This helps the presentation glide through the key points, rather than making it completely mechanical.
Pause instead of using filler words like uhh and err. This allows you to organize your thoughts better.
Summarize by part and at the end.
-Summarize the part's ideas before moving to another topic. Ex. In a paragraph, you have the thesis statement to highlight its main idea.
-Summarize your discussion before ending your presentation. Help your audience zoom back out to the bigger picture.
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Vocal
- Tone
- Rate
- Volume
- Pronunciation
- Accent
- Emphasis
Vary the tone, rate, and volume of your voice as a function of the meaning, complexity and importance of your message.
ACCENT - Add a stronger tone to keywords or phrases that need to be emphasized.
Rappers follow a rhythm that makes it easy for their audiences to follow their narration.
They very their tone, rate, and volume of voices for the rhythm to follow through.
Despite the speed, they also pay attention to their pronunciation in that they don't slur their words to be understood.
They place accents in between phrases, and make use of beats to distinguish between the measures used in music.
ACCENT - Add a stronger tone to keywords or phrases that need to be emphasized.
Rappers follow a rhythm that makes it easy for their audiences to follow their narration.
They very their tone, rate, and volume of voices for the rhythm to follow through.
Despite the speed, they also pay attention to their pronunciation in that they don't slur their words to be understood.
They place accents in between phrases, and make use of beats to distinguish between the measures used in music.
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Visual
- Position
- Stance
- Gestures
- Eye Contact
- Visual Aids
PHYSICAL and DIGITAL
Position yourself well on stage.
[Put yourself at a place convenient for you and your audience.] (ex. don't place yourself at the bottom of the stage if the room has no levels, don't cover the visual aids)
Adopt a stable, confident stance.
--posture and stand on both legs equally
Make large, deliberate gestures.
[Between gestures, keep your hands down and avoid small, unnecessary movements. Also, don't stay in one area for too long. Your audience will get bored.]
Maintain eye contact.
Provide appealing visual aids to help your audience follow along the presentation.
Position yourself well on stage.
[Put yourself at a place convenient for you and your audience.] (ex. don't place yourself at the bottom of the stage if the room has no levels, don't cover the visual aids)
Adopt a stable, confident stance.
--posture and stand on both legs equally
Make large, deliberate gestures.
[Between gestures, keep your hands down and avoid small, unnecessary movements. Also, don't stay in one area for too long. Your audience will get bored.]
Maintain eye contact.
Provide appealing visual aids to help your audience follow along the presentation.
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Other Helpful Tips
- Simplify slides.
- Double check the equipment.
Keep your slides simple, with minimum details. [Make use of bullet points and numbers for enumeration or procedure. Avoid walls of text that you just read in front - hand in hand with the verbal tip of key points with supporting details.]
Double check the equipment you are going to use. Prepare a backup. (Also check compatibility of files and fonts; use cloud storage in case your files get corrupted.)
Double check the equipment you are going to use. Prepare a backup. (Also check compatibility of files and fonts; use cloud storage in case your files get corrupted.)
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General Tips
- Practice your presentation in front of an audience.
- Interact with your audience.
- Make them think.
Practice your presentation in front of an audience. Preparation and revision are key. (Practice in front of a person/people you’re comfortable with. They may correct any mistakes and help you improve your presentation.)
Interact with your audience. Make it exciting and interesting for them by engaging them. (Ask questions, call for volunteers, make them think, etc.)
Being effective in getting your message across is highly dependent on whether or not you make your audience listen and process what you have said.
Interact with your audience. Make it exciting and interesting for them by engaging them. (Ask questions, call for volunteers, make them think, etc.)
Being effective in getting your message across is highly dependent on whether or not you make your audience listen and process what you have said.
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Summary
each of the 3 components is crucial to effective oral presentations
Sources
- Effective Oral Presentations (from nature.com)
- Ten Simple Rules for Making Good Oral Presentations by Philip E. Bourne
- 33 Steps to Great Presentation by David Beckett
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