Presentation skills are the abilities required to effectively communicate engage and convey information to
your audience. These skills are crucial for both professional and academic settings as they help you to
deliver your message clearly and persuasively.
Aspects
Planning and preparation
Understand your audience:
Tailor your content to interests, needs and knowledge level of your audience
Organize your content:
Give structure to your presentation. add introduction. Body and conclusion to your presentation.
Set clear objectives:
Give best introduction of your presentation. What do you want your audience to learn and understand.
Rehearse:
Practice your presentation multiple times, it will improve your timing and helps you to build confidence.
Content creation
Clarity and simplicity
Use simple and concise language, avoid jargons. break complex sentence into simple and understandable
ideas.
Engaging Visualize: add slides, images, graphs and videos to make your ideas more effective.
Story telling:
Add stories and facts to make your presentation relatable and memorable.
Data and Evidence: support your arguments with facts, statistics and credible sources to add
authority to your presentation.
Delivering techniques:
Body language: be confident open your body language Make good posture make eye contact.
Voice control: speak clearly be confident while speaking Be ensure that everyone is hearing while you are
Speaking. Vary your tone.
Pace: manage the pace in your presentation so that the audience can follow along. pause after giving some
points so that your audience can absorb the given information.
Engagement: give feedbacks ask questions and make your audience involved in the discussion use your
humor while asking questions
Handling feed backs
Anticipate questions
Think potential questions your audience might ask and prepare answers in advance.
Active listening;
Listen the question carefully without interrupting, answer the question thoughtfully and respectfully even
if it is challenging.
Clarification:
if the question is un clear, ask them again to repeat or rephrase the question this will make ensure that you
understand the questions carefully.
Accept it when you don’t know
Its ok not to answering all questions accept it and told the to answer it with some more information.
Use of tools
Be comfortable with the presentation software or any other tool such as projector.
Backup
Always take backup with you in USB or cloud if any technical issue appears .
Interactive tools
use polls quizzes and white board to make your presentation more effective and interesting.
Managing nervousness
Deep breathing;
Practice deep breathing exercise to calm your nerves before and during your presentation.
Visualize
Visualizing successful presentation to build confidence
Familiarization
The more you are familiar wit your material the more you will confident
Practice in front of your friends and colleagues
Adaptability
Read the room
Beaware of your audience’s reaction and deliever if necessary ifyour audience seems disengaged add
more interactivity in your presentation
Flexibility
Be prepared to adapt your presenation in case of change in schedule and technical difficulty
