Successful Presentations in English - prowadzenie prezentacji w języku angielskim

1. PLANNING

• Steps to preparing your presentation

• Presentation techniques

• The audience

• Structure of the presentation

• Dealing with nerves and stage freight

2. GETTING STARTED

• The ABCD model – four stages to opening a presentation

• Structuring an opening of your presentation using the WISE flow chart

• Effective openings - getting the audience’s attention

• Welcoming a speaker and visitors and introducing them

• Introducing yourself and establishing credibility

• Explaining the reasons for a presentation

• Starting with a personal story or an interesting fact

• Showing understanding of your audience

• Referring to timing and giving direction

PRACTICE: Opening a model presentation—prepare and five an introduction to a presentation

3. THE MIDDLE OF PRESENTATION

• Smooth structure - the Core structure

• Structuring your message with PEEP

• Using the dream structure

• Using the disaster structure

• Holding the audience’s attention

• Linking ideas - showing a logical link between the main points

• Sequencing

• Organizing points and questions

• Presenting options

• Giving your opinion

• Referring back as a way to show the coherence of your talk

• Changing topic : Mentioning what you’ll be talking about next to build anticipation

• Showing a logical link between the main points

• Explaining the meaning of specific words/ terms/abbreviations

• Giving examples

• Signposting

• Highlighting a point

PRACTICE: Prepare and give one message from a presentation using PEEP, the Dream structure or the Disaster approach.

4. VISUAL AIDS

• Different types of visuals

• Interpreting visuals

• Talking about visuals

• Describing graphs and charts

• Moving between different slides

• Looking at details

PRACTICE: Create visual aids and practice presenting them

5. PROBLEMS AND QUESTIONS

• Handling questions effectively: using the LEVER model

• Dealing with difficult situations: a deleted or a wrong slide, time has run out, you have forgotten to say something, you have made a mistake,

• Dealing with questions: a question that is not on the topic, difficult questions, you don’t understand a question, you don’t know the answer to a question, an-ticipating questions, asking polite questions

• Dealing with interruptions

• Dealing with aggressive people

PRACTICE: present and idea for a new product/solution and asnwer questions about it

6. BRINGING IT ALL ALIVE

• Involving your audience with interaction

• Stimulating your audience’s imagination

• Voice power

• Impact technigues - persuasive speaking

• Storytelling principles

• Explanation: how to explain tough concepts

• Repetitions and restatements of words, phrases, sentences and sounds

• Asking rhetorical questions

• Group of three and group of three plus one

• Amplifing your message through contrastUsing power language and metaphor

• Adding intensifiers                                                

• Combining different impact techniques:

  Emphasis

  Focusing

  Softening

  Repetition

  Rhetorical questions

  Build-ups

  Knock-downs

   

7. CONCLUDING

• Summarizing the main points, summarizing advantages and disadvantages

• Making recommendations

• Making a final point

• Giving your professional opinion

• Ending with a quote, positive note, a final thought

• Phrases for effective conclusions: announcing the conclusion, recapping the key messages, calling for action, coming full circle, thanking the audience and asking for questions

PRACTICE: prepare and give a conclusion to a presentation