PRESENTATION - BUSINESS PLAN - homework 26/03/2014

Homework
For your self study write about your experience today. What went well, what could have gone better, if you had to do it again what would you do differently? What did you learn from your colleagues' presentations and what did you learn from doing your own?

-All in all, I consider my performance quite good, but in spite of everything I think it can be improved. At the beginning I was a bit nervous even if it wasn' t the first time I prepared a presentation, but now I used a logical structure and also an accurate study of my body language, things I have never used before.
I think that I would be able to do it better and in this sense a point I can improve in the light of an imminent new presentation is definitely the use of visual information. Even if I didn't appreciate my colleagues' slides I think that the visual impact is definitely stronger than a "speech impact". If I had to do it again I would use slides like these:

To sum up, I consider speaking in front of an audience, facing other impressions and your fears a very positive experience.



Lesson 5 19/03/2014
Preparing presentation.

6 Key areas:

• Aims of your talk - Objectives, what do you want to achieve
• Audience - How your audience is composed by - language you choose
• Contents - Most important information, make them interesting
• Organization, logical structure and clear organization, signposting language
• Visual information, through a PC or flipboard, not showing too much info in slide
• Practise, when you finish preparing your talk, you discover if there are mistakes to check, check also your timing

Delivery

5 Key areas

• Nerves
• Voice (not too quickly, intonation, not too monotone)
• Body language (communicate confidence, keep a contact with audience)
• Visual information (short phrases, not too much information)
• Questions

Repeating what you are saying three times:

• What you are going to tell them
• Say it
• What you told

Signposting Language Used

Part One:
Good Morning and welcome to our seminar
This morning, I'm going to start by looking at
I'd like to start by (+ing)
There are 6 key areas
The first one is
Second
The third/fourth/fifth area is
The last key area is
Before I move on to the second part, are there any questions?

Part Two:
Now we come to the last part
You need to consider 5 key areas here
The first one is
The second area is
Next
An important element of  ________________  is
For this reason
And  ___________  is the fourth key area
I mentioned earlier
And you saw in the handout/slide/on the screen
The fifth and final area is
So to sum up, the 5 areas you need to think about are
Well, that/this brings me to the end of my presentation
Thank you for your attention
If you have any questions, I'll be happy to answer them now