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Mastering Presentation Skills: Engage Your Audience with Effective Delivery Techniques

Delivering a compelling presentation requires more than just sharing information; it's about engaging your audience. This guide emphasizes the importance of voice modulation, effective use of body language, and maintaining eye contact. Learn to pause for effect, use your hands to highlight key points (without overdoing it), and avoid common pitfalls like reading from your notes or distracting movements. By practicing these techniques, you can deliver a natural and engaging presentation, making the experience enjoyable for both you and your audience.

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Mastering Presentation Skills: Engage Your Audience with Effective Delivery Techniques

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  1. How To Present Comedian Your Voice Emphasis Look, Look, Look • No Butts • No Dancing • Most Important

  2. Comedian • Avoid Jokes • You are not a comedian • This is not a comedy sketch • Always disastrous unless you are a natural • YOU – are not a natural

  3. Speak Clearly • Don’t shout • Don’t whisper • Enunciate clearly • Take Your Time • Don’t rush • Don’t talk slow on purpose • Talk at a natural pace Your Voice

  4. Pause For Effect • Deliberately pause at key points • Emphasises the importance of a particular point you are making • My Nervous Hands • “OMG.. I’m up here. People are staring at me. What am I going to do. I know, I’ll put my hands in my pockets…. Noooo, nooo, I pull my sleaves down to cover them…. Nooo, nooo, I’ll hide them behind my back… Noooo, nooo, I roll them up in the bottom of my shirt….” • Sound Familiar? Emphasis

  5. Emphasis • My Nervous Hands • USE YOUR HANDS • Use them to emphasise points • But don’t overdo it • If it looks like you are conducting an orchestra, you are over doing it • Interlace them in front of you • Delivery • A presentation is all about delivery • To make the presentation interesting, change your delivery, but don’t make it obvious • Change your speed • Change your pitch

  6. Look, Look, Look • “I’m up here. People are looking at me… What do I do. I know… I’ll stare at the floor… Nooo, nooo, I’ll stare at the ceiling…. Nooo, noooo, I’ll stare at the wall….. Yes, If I stare at anything but the audience then they won’t know I’m here.” • Eye Contact • Look at the audience AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE • Don’t stare • Don’t fixate on one individual – Creeeeeeepy • It’s tough, but scan, connect, move, connect, move • Look your audience in the eye • Look at the audience’s foreheads

  7. No Butts • Face Forward • Don’t face the display, face your audience • Don’t stand in a position so you are blocking the screen • If your audience can see your butt, you are facing the wrong direction

  8. No Dancing • Movement • Avoid moving too much • Pacing up and down or back and forth can unnerve your audience • Some movement is good • No rocking, swaying, dancing etc… • If you are going to move, then the movement must be NATURAL

  9. MOST IMPORTANT • Never • Ever, Ever • Ever, Ever • Ever, Ever • Ever • Ever • Ever • Read your presentation • I can read, you can read, we all can read, so you don’t need to read it • Referring to your slides, or notes is perfectly fine, take a glance, then speak

  10. Finally • HAVE SOME FUN • The five or so minutes you are going to be up there is not going to kill you, so enjoy it • Your presentation will be over, when it’s over

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