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Delivering Effective Presentations: Controlling Nervousness and Engaging Your Audience

Learn how to control nervousness, enhance your delivery, and connect with your audience in this chapter on delivering presentations. Discover techniques for managing communication apprehension, improving vocal and visual delivery, and utilizing effective presentation aids. Practice your speech to build confidence and engage your listeners.

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Delivering Effective Presentations: Controlling Nervousness and Engaging Your Audience

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  1. Chapter 14 Delivering Presentations

  2. Remember don’t let this happen to you http://www.hulu.com/watch/39815/saturday-night-live-update-tim-calhoun

  3. Chapter Objectives • Connect with your audience • Enhance your words with effective presentation aids • Make efficient use of your practice time

  4. Controlling Your Nervousness • Communication Apprehension (CA) is… An individual’s level of fear or anxiety associated with either real or anticipated communication with another person or persons

  5. Controlling Your Nervousness • State communication apprehension Situational anxiety • Trait communication apprehension Enduring tendency to be apprehensive about communication in all contexts

  6. Controlling Your Nervousness • Systematic desensitization • Deep muscle relaxation to counter physiological symptoms • Construct hierarchies of CA-eliciting stimuli • Graduated pairing of anxiety-eliciting situations with relaxed state

  7. Controlling Your Nervousness • Cognitive Restructuring • Identify anxiety-producing self-talk • Replace the negative statements with coping statements • Task statements • Context statements • Self-evaluation statements

  8. Controlling Your Nervousness • Building Your Confidence • Think positive • Prepare and practice • Plan for the worst-case scenario • Use positive visualization • Use relaxation techniques • Realize people aren’t judging you

  9. Methods of Delivery • Speaking from Manuscript • Speaking from Memory • Speaking Spontaneously • Speaking Extemporaneously

  10. Guidelines for Effective Delivery • Effective vocal delivery • Vary your pitch • Adjust your volume • Adjust your speaking rate • Use pauses • Speak clearly and precisely • Pronunciation • Articulation

  11. Guidelines for Effective Delivery • Effective visual delivery • Effective eye behavior • Incorporate facial expressions and gestures • Control body movements

  12. Guidelines for Effective Delivery • Connecting with your audience • Expressing emotion • Interacting with your audience

  13. Effective Presentation Aids • The Function of Presentation Aids • Help listeners process and retain information • Promote interest and motivation • Convey information clearly and concisely

  14. Effective Presentation Aids • When to Use Presentation Aids • Enhancing or substituting words • Props • Demonstrations • Models and objects • Pictures • Diagrams and drawings • Displaying data or facts • Graphs • Tables • Charts

  15. Effective Presentation Aids • The Pitfalls of Presentation Software • Too much information on the slides • You are giving a speech, not a slide show

  16. Practicing Your Speech • Remember your speaking outline • Practice using presentation aids • Simulate the situation • Practice your delivery

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