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Effective Presentation Techniques Guide

This document provides guidance on structuring and delivering an effective presentation. It outlines 13 steps for the introduction: 1) welcoming the audience, 2) how you feel, 3) introducing yourself, 4) giving your position, 5) effective openings, 6) introducing your topic, 7) saying why the topic is relevant, 8) stating your purpose, 9) structuring, 10) sequencing, 11) timing, 12) handouts, and 13) questions. It then discusses elements of the main body such as saying what is coming, indicating the end of sections, summarizing points, and moving to the next point. The document aims to help presenters effectively introduce and structure their presentations.

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Effective Presentation Techniques Guide

This document provides guidance on structuring and delivering an effective presentation. It outlines 13 steps for the introduction: 1) welcoming the audience, 2) how you feel, 3) introducing yourself, 4) giving your position, 5) effective openings, 6) introducing your topic, 7) saying why the topic is relevant, 8) stating your purpose, 9) structuring, 10) sequencing, 11) timing, 12) handouts, and 13) questions. It then discusses elements of the main body such as saying what is coming, indicating the end of sections, summarizing points, and moving to the next point. The document aims to help presenters effectively introduce and structure their presentations.

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Presentation

Introduction
Body
Conclusion

Introduction
Welcoming the audience
How you feel
Introducing yourself
your position, function, department,
company
Effective openings=attention grabber
Introducing your topic

Cont
Saying why your topic is
relevant for your audience

Stating your purpose


Structuring
Sequencing
Timing
Handouts
Questions

Welcoming the audience (step 1)


Good morning ladies and gentlemen.
Good afternoon ladies and
gentlemen.
Hello everyone.
Hi everyone

How you feel (step 2)


First of all, let me thank you all for coming
here today.
Its a pleasure to welcome you today.
Im happy that so many of you could make
it today.
Im delighted that so many of you could
make it today.
Its good to see you all here.

Introducing yourself (step 3)


Let me introduce myself..
Im from
For those of you who dont know me,
my name is
Let me just start by introducing
myself. My name is

Giving your position, function,


department, company (step 4)
As some of you know, Im.
Im the key. manager here and am
responsible for
Im here in my function as the head of
Im the project manager in charge of
I am a student/ a journalist/ an engineer

Effective openings (step 5)


Rhetorical questions

Is medical research important for brand development?

Do we really need quality assurance?


Interesting facts

According to an article I read recently,

Did you know that ?

Id like to share an amazing fact / figure with you.


Statistics/ numbers/dates
%/
0987689453217/
in 2013
Stories or anecdotes

At a conference in Madrid, I was once asked the following question:

Let me tell you what happened to me


Problem to think about

Suppose you wanted to . How would you go about it?

Imagine you had to . What would be your first step?


Quotations

Introducing your topic (step 6)

What Id like to present to you today is


What Id like to talk about today is
Todays topic is
The subject of my presentation is
The topic of my presentation is
Today Im going to talk about

Saying why your topic is relevant


for your audience (step 7)
Todays topic is of particular interest
to those of you / us who
My talk is particularly relevant to
those of us who
My topic is / will be very important
for you because
By the end of this talk you will be
familiar with

Stating your purpose (step 8)


The purpose / objective / aim of this
presentation is to
Our goal is to determine how / the best way to

What I want to show you is


My objective is to
Today Id like to give you an overview of
Today Ill be showing you / reporting on
Id like to update you on / inform you about
During the next few hours well be

Structuring (step 9)
Ive divided my presentation into
three (main) parts.
In my presentation Ill focus on three
major issues.

Sequencing (step 10)


Point one deals with , point two , and
point three
First, Ill be looking at , second , and
third
Ill begin / start off by . Then Ill move
on to
Then / Next / After that Ill end with

Timing (step 11)


My presentation will take about 30
minutes.
It will take about 20 minutes to
cover these issues.
This wont take more than

Handouts (step 12)


Does everybody have a handout /
brochure / copy of the report? Please take
one and pass them on.
Dont worry about taking notes. Ive put all
the important statistics on a handout for
you.
Ill be handing out copies of the slides at
the end of my talk.
I can email the PowerPoint presentation to
anybody who wants it.

Questions (step 13)


There will be time for questions after my
presentation.
We will have about 10 minutes for
questions in the question and answer
period.
If you have any questions, feel free to
interrupt me at any time.
Feel free to ask questions at any time
during my talk.

The Main Body of a Presentation

The main body

Saying what is coming


Indicating the end of a section
Summarizing a point
Moving to the next point
Going back
Referring to other points
Adding ideas
Talking about (difficult) issues
Rhetorical questions

Saying what is coming


In this part of my presentation,
I'd like to talk about
So, let me first give you a brief
overview

Indicating the end of a section


This brings me to the end of my first
point.
So much for point two.
So, that is the background on
That is all I wanted to say about

Summarizing a point
Before I move on, I'd like to
recap the main points.
Let me briefly summarize the
main issues
I'd like to summarize what I have
said so far

Moving to the next point


This leads directly to my next point
This brings us to the next question
Let's now move on /turn to .
After examining this point, let's turn
to
Let's now take a look at

Going back
As I said/mentioned earlier
Let me come back to what we
were discussing earlier.
As I've already explained,
As I pointed out in the first
section,

Referring to other points


I have a question in connection
with/concerning...
There are a few problems
regarding the ..
With respect/regard to, we
need more background
information.
According to the survey,.

Adding ideas
In addition to this, I'd like to say
that.
Moreover/furthermore, there are
other interesting facts we should
take a look at.
Apart from being too expensive,
this model .

Talking about (difficult) issues


I think we first need to identify
the problem.
Of course we will have to clarify a
few points before we start
We will have to deal with the
problem of .
How shall we cope with..
The question is: why dont we

Rhetorical questions
What conclusion can we draw
from this?
So, what does this mean?
So, just how good are the results?
So, how are we going to deal
with?

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