2. Presentations
"Presentations skills are one of the
most important skills you will learn in
business"

3. How do we feel before a
presentation?

4. Managing emotions
• Your stomach has a lot to say!
– Enteric Nervous System
– Interacts with the brain
• via Vagus Nerves
• Link to our emotional system
• +100 Million Brain cells in the gut
• When you die the gut keeps working for a time
• More brain cells in your gut than in a cats head

5. Avoiding Tension
• Voice
– Deep breathing
– Chew a very large toffee
– Tongue twisters
• How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?
– Big Yawn
• Body
– Shake the hands roll the shoulders
– Run on the spot/ take a brisk walk
• Mind
– Think happy thoughts - consider 3 reasons for audience
attention

6. Using emotion to your
advantage
• Energy
• Hand gestures
• Voice intonation
• Best advise I was ever given "Go Big"

7. If (last verse)
Try saying these with
different emotions
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
' Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

8. Planning
• Three distinct parts
– Start
– Middle
– Finish
How much time should we spend planning each
section?
Where is the maximum interest going to be?

9. Start
• Goal is to relax the audience, gain interest and
make a good 1st impression
• Title
– imaginative or surprising
• Rhetorical Question
– "What have the romans ever done for us?"
• Quotation
– "We never step into the same river twice" Heraclitus
• Statistic
– "90% of students who attend all lectures achieve a 1st"
• Also need to explain the format of the
presentation

10. Finish
• Referring back to opening
– "....as we identified at the start
• Summary
• Quotation
– "90% of project managers say that managing the
client's expectations is the most important part of
project management"
• Pertinent question
– "What do we feel is the most important part of project
management?"

11. Middle
• Use the "power of 3" format
– I came, I saw, I conquered
– location, location, location
– lies, dammed lies, and statistics
– Metaphors
• "Breaking through the glass ceiling"
– examples
– Stories

12. Basics
• Use appropriate language
• Check the room and equipment - bring a memory
stick
• Spell check and use UK English
• The presentation starts when you enter the room
and finishes when you leave.

13. Presentations skills are one
of the most important skills
in business
– Relax and enjoy it!
– Practice makes ..... (well almost) perfect

14. Lets have a go
• Ebola presentation planning task
• Scenario -
As the CEO of a major telecoms company you have been
given special audience with the governments of West
Africa. This golden opportunity will help you gain a
foothold in the market.
You have been asked to prepare and present in 3 mins a
case for access to Call Data Records. You won't have
any visual aids, but can bring notes.

15. Case