Tips for a good oral presentation

Oral presentation not reading session Visual aid not visual duplication

Presentation not monologue

The 3 commandments

Your comfort level with presenting will be high if you know your topic well.

1. Know Your Stuff!

If each of your slides is filled with the text of your speech, why does your audience need you?

Always remember that you are the presentation. The slides should only be used as an accompaniment to your talk.

Speak to the audience, not to the screen.

2. The Slides Are NOT Your Presentation

Keep it simple when designing a presentation. The audience will be more likely to retain the information.

Just topics, no sentences!

3. Too Much Information?

Do you love color combinations? Well, your PowerPoint presentation is not the time to use them.

4. Save the colors for Christmas

Small type fonts might look great when you are sitting next to the monitor. Use easy to read fonts such as Arial or Times New Roman. Use no less than a 30 pt font so that people at

the back of the room can read them easily.

5. Did You Bring Your Magnifying Glasses?

No one wants to sit through a presentation with no substance.

Use photos, charts and diagrams only to emphasize key points of your presentation.

6. Illustrate, don't decorate!

Ensure your audience stays focused by keeping the number of slides to a minimum.

10 to 12 is plenty.

7. Yawn -- HOW Many More Slides Are There?

You found all the really cool animations and sounds and used 85% of them in your presentation.

Except - the audience doesnt know where to look, and have totally lost the message of your presentation.

8. Oh No! My Neck!

You know your topic and it all seems clear to you? Well, thats not a proper test.

A good practice is to rehearse in front of a colleague or friend

9. Rehearsals Are Not Just for Broadway

If possible, record your voice while you rehearse your presentation. Then play it back to hear how you would sound

to the audience.

10. How Do I Sound as a Presenter?

OK, can we start?

11. Get your audiences attention

Hello Good morning Good afternoon Good evening

12. Greet your audience

Well, let me introduce ourselves. Im and this is

13. Introduce yourself

We are going to talk about We are going to show you

14. Introduce the topic

In the first place/Secondly/Next/And finally Lets have a look at this

As you can see As you may know This picture shows Id like to highlight

15. Link your ideas

Well, in conclusion, we would like to say that And this concludes our presentation.

16. Conclude your ideas

Thank you We hope youve enjoyed our presentation

Are there any questions?

17. Finish your presentation

Thank you for your attention Any questions?

Reuse the 1st slide A funny cartoon

A quote A picture

18. And dont forget to include a closing slide