L05: Leadership Presentations

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L05: Leadership Presentations

Basically, this chapter is giving reader a very useful how to do a good presentation. From some point of views, the author mentions introduction, body, and conclusion. The introduction should start as soon as you stand up and give your audience what’s the main topic for your presentation, should not take too much time on it. When move to body, which usually accounts 80 percent, should be concise and specifically focused. Also, provide transitions to lead from one topic to the next and one graphic to the next. In the conclusion, summarize what you have said by going back over the main points and reinforcing them. The other thing we can talk about is practicing a presentation is often the key to delivering it successfully in front of your audience. Some people would like to practice in front of mirror and be sure to speak aloud. Timing, make sure you want to obey the time limits, you don’t want to go over –time.In public speaking, people are easy to get nervous, how to overcome nervousness, when you are presenting. In books tell us you can do some yoga deep-breathing exercise, or think everyone in the room is all apples. You don’t really feel so nervous. Eye contact, good speakers really look at the people in their audience, not over their heads or out of window. Do not overuse stance or gestures, sometimes the audience sometimes feel uncomfortable with. Using PowerPoint, overheads is a good technique, when giving presentation. You want your audience focus on you, so your audience at least has an idea what are you presenting. You need to test the projection, or display equipment makes sure it is work well. The last thing handing Q&A. the presenter should always be ready for the questions, because you never know what questioners might ask you. Listen very carefully to the question; be sure you understand the question before you answer. Keep your answer short and simple, answer the specific question.