Friday, 11 December 2009

Further Speech Presentation Skills Tips

Presentation nerves skills is about handling nerves and public speaking anxiety. A few nerves can help to enhance your speech presentation skills. Too many nerves can have the opposite effect on your presentation.

Here are 3 presentation nerves skills to help you control your nerves:

1. Practice your presentation. It is boring but the more familiar you are with your presentation the easier it is to give.

2. Get to know your audience. Greet and talk to your audience before you present. Presenting to people you know is less stressful.

3. Rehearse in the room you are to give the presentation. It will help you to get used to actual circumstances of the presentation.

Some presentation nerves are good for you. Good preparation skills help to settle nerves by giving you something to do as well as improve yourspeech presentation skills.

Wednesday, 9 December 2009

More Speech Presentation Skills Tips

Preparation skills are a very important area to develop of speech presentation skills.

Here are 3 tips on speech writing skills;

1. Know why you are going to present. What is your purpose to present? Do you want to inform, persuade or entertain the audience. Without a purpose it is difficult to write a worthwhile presentation.

2. Know Your Audience. Find out out as much as you can about the audience as this this determines how you write and give your presentation. An informed audience will require a different presentation to an audience with little knowledge of your subject.

3. Outline your presentation. Before starting to write your presentation outline it. This gives you a chance to "see" your speech, and determine the best order and any duplication or missing information.

Planning skills are necessary part of good speech presentation skills. It helps you be more effective when you give your presentation.

Monday, 7 December 2009

Speech Presentation Skills Tips

Here are 3 more tips on presentation speaking skills to help develop your speech presentation skills;

1. The most effective speech presentation style is to speak as you would in private conversation. The audience finds this easier to listen to.

2. The best presentation PowerPoint slides contain only brief text. Your speaking should provide the content and explanation. PowerPoint slides are there to support the speech not the other way round.

3. If you are speaking on a point not covered by a PowerPoint slide press either B or W on your keyboard or clicker and it will blank the slide.

To summarize these 3 speech presentation skills tips, the most effective style of giving a presentation is a conversational style and the best PowerPoint presentation slides support the speaking part of the presentation.

Saturday, 5 December 2009

Good Speech Presentation Skills Tips

Good speech presentation skills can be broken down into three areas. In this post I am going to provide tips on presentation speaking skills. Which includes the words used, how they are said, the use of gestures etc.

Tips on Presentation Speaking Skills

1. Practice your presentation. I know this can be boring but it can make a big difference to how effective the presentation when it is given.

2. Do not read your presentation word for word, whether it is from a physical copy of the presentation or from a PowerPoint slide. It makes it difficult to connect with the audience and many people tend to be a bit monotonous when reading.

3. Rehearse in the room you are going to give your presentation. It gets you familiar with the surroundings and gives a chance to identify any potential issues and rectify them.

To summarize my speech presentation skills tips is to be prepared and if at all possible speak from brief notes or have the main points of the speech memorized and form the words as you speak (this does not mean having the entire speech memorized).

Thursday, 3 December 2009

Good Speech Presentation Skills

Good speech presentation skills are in demand as much as ever. Being able to effectively present is a highly valued skilled in most organizations.

Effective presentation skills are needed to keep members of the organization informed or to persuade them to way of thinking or to take a certain action.

Without good speech presentation skills it could be argued that business and even society could not function. Face to face presentations from small groups to larger audiences can be much more effective than emails or other high tech methods of communication in many situations e.g. in a sales presentation, the explanation of difficult concepts etc. People still want the human touch in our high tech world.

While people still like each other's company effective speech presentation skills will remain in demand and respected.

Tuesday, 1 December 2009

Speech Presentation Skills

The development of good speech presentation skills are important. It is the speaking part of the presentation that will deliver the information to the listeners. The visual aids including PowerPoint provide interest and help the listeners in recalling the presentation. William Shakespeare put it best when he said "the plays the thing." All else support the speech of presentation and helps to make the presentation more effective. Without the speech presentation part there can be no presentation.

Having said that, to be complete I will discuss some PowerPoint presentation skills etc along with the speech presentation skills where they add to the presentation.

Speech presentation skills are in 3 broad areas;-

1. Presentation speaking skills
2. Speech writing skills
3. Presentation nerves skills

Over my next blog posts I will discuss the basics of speech presentation skills.