Delivering Your: Presentation

Delivering Your
Presentation
HCOM-100
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Delivering Your Presentation
PREVIEW
 Methods of Speech Delivery
 Effective Verbal Delivery
 Effective Nonverbal Delivery
 Effective Presentation Aids
 Final Tips for Rehearsing and Delivering
your presentation
Methods of Speech Delivery
 Manuscript Speaking
 Rarely done well enough to be interesting
 Guidelines
 Type your manuscript in short, easy-to-scan phrases
 Use appropriate nonverbal messages
 Do not read the speech too quickly
 Vary the rhythm, inflections, and pace of your delivery
 Use gestures and movement to add nonverbal interest
 Memorized Speaking
 Guidelines
 Do not deliver your memorized speech too rapidly
 Avoid patterns of vocal inflection that make the
presentation sound recited

 Use gestures and movement to add interest and
emphasis to your message

 Impromptu Speaking
 “off
the cuff”
 Guidelines
 Consider your audience
 Be brief
 Organize
 Draw upon your personal experience and knowledge
 Use gestures and movement that arise naturally from what
you are saying
 Be aware of the potential impact of your communication
 Extemporaneous Speaking
 Method of delivery preferred by most audiences
 Guidelines
 Use a full-content preparation outline when you begin to
rehearse your presentation
 Prepare an abbreviated delivery outline and speaking notes
 Do not try to memorize your message word for word
 As you deliver your presentation, adapt it to your audience
RECAP Methods of Delivery
Manuscript Reading a speech from written text
Memorized Giving a speech word for word from memory

without using notes
Impromptu Delivering a presentation without advance
preparation
Extemporaneous Speaking from a written or memorized outline

without having memorized the exact wording of
the presentation
Effective Verbal Delivery
 Using words well
 Crafting memorable word structure
Using Words Well
 Specific, Concrete Words
 Refers to an object or action in the most specific way possible
 Unbiased Words
 Do not offend any sexual, racial, cultural, or religious group
 Vivid Words
 Add color and interest to your language
 Simple Words
 Immediately understandable
 Correct Words
 Grammatical and usage errors communicate a lack of
preparation
Crafting Memorable
Word Structures
 Figurative Language
 Metaphors (implied
comparisons)
 Similes (over
comparisons)
 Personification
(attribution of human
qualities to non-human
things or ideas)
Crafting Memorable
Word Structures
 Drama
 Omission (strip a phrase or sentence of
nonessential words that the audience
expects)
 Inversion (invert the usual subject-verb-
object sentence pattern)
 Suspension (saving a key word or phrase for
the end of a sentence)
Crafting Memorable
Word Structures
 Cadence
 Parallelism (two or more clauses have the
same grammatical pattern)
 Antithesis (the two structures contrast)
 Repetition (repeat key word or phrase)
 Alliteration (repetition of an initial consonant
sound several times in a phrase, clause, or
sentence)
Effective Nonverbal Delivery
 Eye contact
 Physical delivery
 Gestures
 Movement
 Posture
 Facial expression
 Vocal Delivery
 Volume
 Pitch
 Rate
 Articulation
 Appearance
RECAP Characteristics of Nonverbal Delivery
Gestures should be relaxed, definite, varied, and appropriate.
Movement should be purposeful
Posture should feel natural and be appropriate to your topic, audience,
and occasion
Eye Contact should be established before you say anything and
sustained throughout your presentation
Facial Expression should be alert, friendly, and appropriate
Volume should be loud enough to be heard and varied
Pitch should be varied to sustain audience interest
Rate should be neither too fast or too slow
Articulation should be clear and distinct
Appearance should conform to what the audience expects
Effective Presentation Aids
 The term presentation aid refers to any object
that your audience can look at to help them
understand your ideas.
 Advantages
 Gain and maintain audience attention
 Communicate your organization of ideas
 Illustrate sequences of events or procedures
 Help your audience understand and remember your
message
Types of Presentation Aids
 Objects
 Models
 People
 Drawings
 Photographs
 Maps
 Graphs
 Bar
 Pie
 line
Types of Presentation Aids
 Charts
 Video Tapes
 CD-ROMS and DVDs
 Audio Tapes and
Audio CDs
Computer-Generated
Presentation Aids
 Create and present professional-looking
visual aids inexpensively and easily
 PowerPoint
 Adapt to audiences that expect
sophisticated technical support
Guidelines for Preparing
Presentation Aids
 Select the right presentation aids.
 Adapt to your audience
 Be aware of your specific purpose
 Consider your own skill and experience
 Take into account the room in which you will speak
 Make your presentation aids easy to see

 Keep your presentation aids simple
 Polish your presentation aids
Guidelines for Using
Presentation Aids
 Rehearse with your presentation aids
 Maintain eye contact with your audience, not your
presentation aids
 Explain your presentation aids
 Time your presentation aids to coincide with your
discussion of them
 Do not pass objects, or other small items among your
audience
 Use handouts effectively
 Use small children and animals with caution
 Use technology thoughtfully
Final Tips for Delivering
Your Presentation
 Finish your full-content outline several days
before you must deliver the presentation
 Practice, Practice, Practice
 Practice good delivery skills while rehearsing
 If possible, practice your presentation for
someone else
 Tape record or videotape your presentation
Final Tips for Delivering
Your Presentation (Cont.)
 Re-create the speaking situation in your final
rehearsals
 Get plenty of rest the night before you speak
 Arrive early
 Review and apply the suggestions in Chapter 11
for becoming a more confident speaker.
 After you have delivered your presentation, seek
feedback from members of your audience.
What questions do you have?
Homework:
Reading?
Turn in assignments?

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emphasis to your message

Memorized Giving a speech word for word from memory

Extemporaneous Speaking from a written or memorized outline

 Make your presentation aids easy to see

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