Tips On Conducting Presentation
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
I am busy conducting classes to my customers these 3 days up until tomorrow. So I will just splurge on tips to conduct a good presentation.
1) Know your audience:
You need to know what ticks your audience. Are they technical persons? Are they inclined more towards academics? Are they more on marketing stuffs?
If you know what is the goal of the classes or presentation that you conduct, then you can know what type of peoples that will be attending the presentation. Communicate with your superior (who asked you to present or conduct the class) on what is the end in mind for conducting the presentation.
2) Know your stuffs:
You cannot present something that you don't know. If you don't know the stuffs you're supposed to present, you will be either
- Reading the slides and makes your presentation boring.
- Be shoot at with questions which affirmatively - you cannot answer.
So be prepared. Ensure that you know your materials inside out. Ensure that you specify what scope that you will be covering. If you know the stuffs well, you won't have any fear.
3) Know your jokes:
Jokes are hard to make. Wrong jokes, you might offend somebody. No jokes, your class might be pretty dull. Personally, I rarely do jokes. Or maybe I did, but people can't understand my jokes. HAHA.
So, unless you have a talent for joking, be cautious of your jokes. Use questions instead. Ask your audience if they understand what they're presented with if they felt silence suddenly. Chances are, they don't.
When they do not understand, they'll asked you question. Then you will need to elaborate or answer in simple way to make them understand (refer #2). If they can understand what you're presenting, usually you'll see some nods of heads around. That might then bore you because you're the only one doing the talking.
So, what should you do to keep your class entertaining?
Ask them questions. Any relevant questions. Like:
- How many of you are actually
? - Do you like doing programming / administration /
? - How do you feel about this subject
?
If there's no response, change your questions. Instead of asking them if they like something, ask them again if they don't like something.
4) Know yourself:
Presentation is all about communicating to people. You are people, I am people, we are people. If you want to make an interesting presentation, you need to know yourselves why certain presentation feels interesting.
Chances are, your audiences are similar to you. It is highly unlikely that you're going to present something to random person (unless if you're in sales or if you're in politics).
If you're a student of medicine, you will highly likely presenting medicines to your target audiences.
If I am a database administrator, chances are I am presenting to people who are interested in databases only.
So, you need to know what does an interesting presentation consists of. Usually, a good material that answers what you want to know; combined with a good two-way communications (Q&A session is enough); combined with some jokes and ways you communicates the ideas.
That is more than enough for you to do a presentation. If you hate a presentation, most likely you'll see why you don't like it.
So, replicate what you see when attending other people presentation in your own presentation. That's the key to success.
If you need to do presentations - I'd say, good luck! :D
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one more, visual aid supposed to aid you, not talking the whole bunch of the things you need to say to people. People should pay attention to you, not to the visual aid.
hahahaha.
A teacher is like an entertainer.. You have to entertain your audience, or they'll lose interest in you, and your presentation as well ;) (said one of the penceramah in one of the kursus i attended). And i think it's true. when you present, you must somehow transform urself into an entertainer ;)
oh, and wearing something nice doesn't hurt either. Pleasing to the eyes.. ;)
Great tips. Thanks!
I usually ends my presentation with a motivating song (played on a handphone w/ seperate speaker) or meaningful one which I sung myself.
I provide material for e.g. newspaper for sitting, if it's at a field or open space.
Problem is I'm older than my audience, which makes me hard to detect what I am slacking, coz they always keep silent, only one or two nodding. Or one that ask question during my 'teaching'.
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