Presentation Skills   

Hussein Al-NatshehJune 23, 2012

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Presentation Skills

What is presentation skills?

Why it is important?

Why Presentation Skills?

1- Huge improvement of the results that you will achieve as a

power presenter.

2- Add more of benefits to your audience.

3- Increase the power of your communication skills .

4- Increase your FUN while giving presentations.

Presentation Skills Agenda

• FIRE-UP.

• Preparing yourself.

• Motivate basic emotions.

• Organizing your presentation.

• 4 most important presentation skills.

• General Advices.

4 levels of Presenting: WeakGoodVery goodExcellent

Which one you want to be??

Stages of Excellence

1- Unconscious Competence

2- Conscious Complemented

3- Conscious Incompetence

4- Unconscious Incompetence

Example: a person lives in desert and has never seen a car. Then he go to the city and learn how to drive one. And finally, he drives it professionally without concentration.

Prepare Yourself

Focus on Your Outcomes

Propose a commitment and close with connection

Use their uniqueness to demonstrate a solution

Educate, empower and entertain your audience

Remind your audience of their pain Inform your audience of your purposes Focus your audience's attention on you

Inte

grity

The FIRE-UP System for Outstanding Presentation

To be effective, your outcomes must be:

• Specific.

• Direct and summarized.

• Positive.

• Concentrated towards solving the

audience’s challenges

• Desired, Motivating.

Prepare yourself

• Be an expert in the subject.

• Well prepare the content.

• Prepare the multimedia tools that will empower the show.

Phase 1:

Prepare yourself

• Optimal Performance Identity (OPI) (by Mind).Ex: I am a significant presenter I am giving audience the required concentration, and I can deliver information for them directly and clearly.• Optimal Performance Identity (OPI) (by emotion)Ex: I concern of audience and I make FUN, I commitment and comfortable, I am exited and strong.

Phase 2:(Mind and emotion preparation)

You can motivate basic emotions of OPI by the 3 basic motivating emotions:

PhysiologyLanguage & Sub-modalities

Empowering Beliefs

Physiology

• Standing; strong and a little bit forward sloping

• Breaths; comfort breathing to control your emotions

• Stress/comfort; mixed, they generate each other.

• Body-motion; strong one motivate feelings.• Face-language; concentrate and comfort.

It is the way you use your body language

EX: Self-confidant emotion

Language & Sub-modalities :

• What is my target?• Which points I should

concentrate on?• How could I involve

FUN?• How I can make the

audience understand this point in a better way?

• Am I really well-prepared ?

• What if I did not succeed?

• Why do I feel all of this stress?

• Why do not the audience interactive with me?

Encouraging Questions NOT Encouraging Questions

Beliefs :

• I am the best one in that field.

• I have an excellent knowledge of the content

• What I present is a wonderful chance for the audience.

• I am not the best one in that field.

• I do not have a good knowledge of contents

• What I present add nothing to audience.

Encouraging Beliefs NOT Encouraging Beliefs

Organizing your presentation:

Variety of your presentation contents is very important

Ice Break

FIRE-UP

Challengesneeds

Solutions

FIRE-UP

Challengesneeds

Solutions

Closing

Effecting audience:

• Words 7%

• Voice variety 38%

• Body language 55%

Then, what you must concern in to start practice yourself ?? …………………..

4 Most Important Skills Need Practicing:

• Eye contact. • Voice variety.

• Body language. • Target moving.

• Come early• Be elegant• Greeting• Ice break• Keep smiling• Self-confident• FUN• Credibility and honest• Preparation• Use some refreshment techniques. Ex:“please give attention to the next important point..” or give an energizer exercise• Subject continuity • Time commitment and management• Powerful closing

General Advices in Presentations :

Preparation Exercise

Collect information about your colleague

Self-preparation (Language, Believes & Physical ) Introduce each others to the

audience Quick feedback for the next trial

Practicing & Evaluating

(1-2) Minutes Presentation Any Subject. FOCUS ON:

Ice Break, Greeting & Introducing Yourself (10 Points)

Voice Variety (20 Points) Body Language, Moving & Smiling (20 P’s) Eye Contact (20 Points) Informing and Entertaining (10 Points) Self-Confidence (10 Points) Time and Powerful Closing (10 Points)

Wish You All the Best!

Hussein Al-Natsheh

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