Giving a Public Presentation: It's Almost Easy...
27 March 2012
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Regardless of your position or responsibilities, you will likely need to present your work results to an audience. Don't worry, there are a few things to know...
To start the meeting:
- Be friendly, open, welcoming, and show that you care about what people will say and are involved.
- Introduce yourself, even briefly. People are always more attentive to someone they "know." If needed, remember that the audience can do the same.
To communicate better:
- Preferably, stand and face your audience directly.
- Don't be afraid to look at people individually and personally, without focusing on just one person (which would be awkward). This shows sympathy and your openness to others. Also remember to scan the entire audience.
- Don't bite your nails, put your fingers in your mouth, or point your index finger at your audience. This gesture is moralistic, accusatory, and therefore very badly perceived.
- Smile pleasantly, be as natural as possible. Naturalness is contagious!
- Pay attention to your speech: articulate, don't speak too loudly or too softly, take regular pauses to allow for assimilation, use a pleasant speaking rhythm and pace that is easy to remember.
- Avoid overly complex sentences, opaque arguments, empty phrases, technical terms, and unnecessary and obscure abbreviations.
To better structure your report:
- Give a quick overview of the presentation.
- Prepare an outline on a flip chart and highlight the different points: the main idea must be visible, accessible, and understandable to/by everyone.
- Specify when the audience can ask questions. Interaction is essential.
- Use images to help and speed up the understanding and assimilation of what you explain. When images and diagrams are used, the feeling of reliability and credibility is increased.
- Remain factual, use figures, be clear, even mathematical.
- Avoid reading the text written on the slides you are presenting.
- Make sure there are no spelling mistakes or typos in your writing, use colors to highlight, pay attention to the layout.
To end the meeting:
- Remain available and approachable to answer questions.
- Don't be sensitive to criticism or what you perceive as such.
- Thank and greet before giving up the floor and leaving the room.
Article written by The ReKrute.com Team
Posted on March 27, 2012.
To start the meeting:
- Be friendly, open, welcoming, and show that you care about what people will say and are involved.
- Introduce yourself, even briefly. People are always more attentive to someone they "know." If needed, remember that the audience can do the same.
To communicate better:
- Preferably, stand and face your audience directly.
- Don't be afraid to look at people individually and personally, without focusing on just one person (which would be awkward). This shows sympathy and your openness to others. Also remember to scan the entire audience.
- Don't bite your nails, put your fingers in your mouth, or point your index finger at your audience. This gesture is moralistic, accusatory, and therefore very badly perceived.
- Smile pleasantly, be as natural as possible. Naturalness is contagious!
- Pay attention to your speech: articulate, don't speak too loudly or too softly, take regular pauses to allow for assimilation, use a pleasant speaking rhythm and pace that is easy to remember.
- Avoid overly complex sentences, opaque arguments, empty phrases, technical terms, and unnecessary and obscure abbreviations.
To better structure your report:
- Give a quick overview of the presentation.
- Prepare an outline on a flip chart and highlight the different points: the main idea must be visible, accessible, and understandable to/by everyone.
- Specify when the audience can ask questions. Interaction is essential.
- Use images to help and speed up the understanding and assimilation of what you explain. When images and diagrams are used, the feeling of reliability and credibility is increased.
- Remain factual, use figures, be clear, even mathematical.
- Avoid reading the text written on the slides you are presenting.
- Make sure there are no spelling mistakes or typos in your writing, use colors to highlight, pay attention to the layout.
To end the meeting:
- Remain available and approachable to answer questions.
- Don't be sensitive to criticism or what you perceive as such.
- Thank and greet before giving up the floor and leaving the room.
Article written by The ReKrute.com Team
Posted on March 27, 2012.
