Successful presentations in English

• Perceiving your strengths and weaknesses as a public speaker and their effect on listeners 
• Boosting your public speaking performance through an intensive practice and detailed feedback 

• Composing effective slide presentations

Composing your presentations

• Addressing your audience’s needs, wants, expectations
• Setting a goal for each presentation: something for the audience to understand, believe, or do
• Defining key points to attain that goal

• Organizing the key points in a clear, logical sequence: form/function, features/benefits, problem/solution, etc.

• Presenting them with sparse, viewer-friendly text and graphics on a limited number of slides

Delivering your presentations

• Channeling stage fright
• Standing straight; moving purposefully
• Breathing deeply to develop poise and resonance
• Expressing yourself with face and voice
• Articulating to be understood
• Gesturing for emphasis
• Varying pace, volume, and tone to hold interest
• Looking at listeners one at a time
• Eliminating distracting mannerisms and non-words (“aah”,“uhh”, etc.)

Engaging your audiences

• Launching each presentation with a striking remark
• Spelling out its theme, its goal, and the audience benefit from the start
• Elaborating orally on your key points, adding value to slide content
• Illustrating your message through vivid analogies and anecdotes
• Quizzing listeners for added involvement
• Reading their emotional response throughout the talk
• Concluding with a call to action
• Paraphrasing (aggressive) questions and answering them concisely

Workshop trainees:

• are advised to wear casual clothes to perform exercises comfortably.
• are encouraged to bring a characteristic presentation from work to practice with.
• take home their presentation video as a tool for further progress.