1. Making Great Presentations
 Conquer nerves
and stage fright
 Master powerful
communication
skills
 Deliver
presentations
with confidence
and style

2. However much you are educated, if
you cannot present facts and figures
well you have a big problem at hand.
 Many employees today look for
people who could communicate
well
 As a result, developing
presentation skills has become
an important part of any course
of study.
 Marks are given for
presentations in the Universities

3.  Rough to smooth

4. 4 Ps in presentations
 Plan
 Prepare
 Practice
 Present

5. Side talk

6. Plan
 Understand the audience
 Background
 Knowledge
 Experience
 Needs
 Goals

7. Plan…
Find out the purpose of your talk
Is it to
 Inform
 Persuade
 Motivate to action
 Sell
 Teach
 Train

8. Plan…
Draw up a logical framework
 Define the topic
 Current status
 Issues and core problems
 Possible answers/ alternatives
 Challenges
 Action Plan

9. Plan….
Time
 How much of time devoted to my
presentation ( depth of the talk
depends on the time)
 If some one has already taken
portion of time, how do you manage
with the available time
 How to use the time effectively on
different sub topics. Some times
more time used for background
factors than the topic in issue
 Not to exceed the time limit. Keep
your presentation to the point.

10. Side talk

11. Prepare
 How much of information I have
 Researching the subject
 Where to get information
 Find out or develop a good
opening and concluding remark
 File the information in an
accessible storage
 If electronic storage is used at
least store in two mediums

12. Prepare….
Process data and get only the
relevant in right quantities in
presentable manner
 Graphs
 Pictures
 Diagrams
 Percentages
 Ratios
 Flow charts
 Analysis
 Be creative

13. How to prepare slides
 Use less than six sentences in
one slide
 Have only appropriate graphs,
figures and pictures
 Use background colours that
would not blur the main
message
 Use only appropriate animation
on slides
 Be brief on slides and explain

20. Side talk

21. Throw a challenge to the audience
•Smoking Reduces
weight
•Say how????

22. Getting Prepared

23. Prepare….
 Use only the information that
you are going to cite in the
presentation in slides
 If you use foreign words,
accronyms explain them
 Jargon could be used only if
audience know about it.

24. Get ready for the worse
 There could be a electricity failure
 The Multi media may not work
 Computer may not work
 Your CD containing your presentation may
not read or go blank
 Slide Projector lamp may burst
 Handouts may not come in time
Answer :
In addition to electronic stuff have rough
sketch. That could save your day.

25. Side talk

26. Practice
 Find out the style that suits your
personality and the situation
 Adapt to the situation depending on
the circumstances
 The style depends largely on the
way you normally talk
 Do not present as if you are reading
a book or paper without any
emphasis on punctuations
 Tell it like a story- remember
Seeyage Katha “ ekaparatama
Walahek Penna” Use tone.
 Speak with a moderate speed
 Never use artificial accent

27. Practice about how to use
your body language
Using your hands
 invite the audience
accept your point by
having your palms
upwards
 Avoid closing your
hands firmly as this can
be a sign of
aggressiveness
 Avoid rubbing your
hands – sign of

28.  Avoid pointing one finger at
audience- sign of warning
 Do not put your hands in
the pocket when
presenting

29. Your mobile phone
 If possible say at the beginning
“ Oh I am going to off this as it
may disturb all of us” This will
send a message to the audience
also to off the phone or at least
put on the vibration mode
 Ensure that your phone is off.
( not even vibration)
 Never answer the phone

30. Using facial expression and eye
brow
 Use your eye brows to articulate
your feelings
 Move your head around and
look people in the eye. Do not
focus only on one person, few or
one side of the audience.
 Do not always direct your talk to
the head table or the leader or
guest
 Look at people who do not give

31. Controlling your physical and
psychological status
 Move around if possible
 Have an active outlook
 Face the audience always rather
than the board or the screen behind
you
 Do not get emotional
 Do not get irritated with the
audience
 Do not get into extremes
 Admit your mistakes and sincerely
thank for pointing out.

32. Involve the audience
 Show you are interested in
audience
 Ask them to comment
 Ask them few easy questions
 Crack a decent joke
 Give a compliment to
volunteers who answer your
questions
 Give a handout

33. Judge the status of the
audience while you are talking
 Are they with you ( facial
expression, nodding, smiling)
 Are they sleeping, yawning or
doing some other thing while you
are talking
 Are they talking with each other
while you are talking
 Are they talking over the mobile
or playing games or sending
SMS’s
 Are they looking disappointed

34. How to draw attention of the
disinterest
 Ask questions
 Say that no one is going to
sleep
 Give a point to discuss with the
person seated to next
 Say a word in half and let the
audience complete
 Bring in a funny photo/ joke

36. Develop your language
 You must use the appropriate word
that the audience can understand
 Never use difficult words when
simple words are there
 Do not use slang ( wanna , gonna)
 Avoid fillers- ah, em, er, well,
basically, you know, like, kind of, of
course, more or less, by the way,
don’t you know etc.
 Do not worry to use Sinhalese or
Tamil words or phrases when you
are giving a talk in English in Sri

37. Side talk

38. Dress Appropriately
 Attention is on you- so dress
suitably
 Formal- Lounge
 Informal- Smart Casual
 Never over dress with too much
of Jewellery, make up etc.

39. Rehearse
 Stand in front of a mirror and present
yourself
 Repeat it several times until you rectify
your errors and build confidence
 Make the presentation in front of a
friend
 Ask him to make a candid evaluation
 Try and video your talk and see how
you perform
 More you practice more you do well.

40. Visualise
ALLSay
What ?

41. “Ela Kiri”

42. “That’s Great”