Key Takeaways: Presentations
Key Takeaways
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- All presentation must have a general purpose, specific purpose and central idea statements.
- Correctly profiling an audience will ensure your presentation delivers the right message in the most effective manner.
- All presentations include an attention getter, introduction, body, and conclusion.
- Correctly matching the message to the correct type of presentation will increase the effectiveness of the message.
- Understand the function of your informative presentation in order to communicate the right message to the right audience.
- Organize your information presentation using the five main parts of an informative presentation.
- Use the six principles of persuasion to develop your persuasive presentation.
- Use the Rhetorical Strategy to construct will developed arguments.
- Integrate emotional appeal to effectively engage your audience.
- Many employees may not like public speaking, but it is a normal part of the business environment.
- Good preparation helps to relieve the feelings of anxiety experienced by many presenters.
- There are different types of delivery techniques to best deliver different types of messages.
- Your delivery should look as natural as possible.
- Graphic illustrations help to simplify and clarify information.
- Different types of graphics are best to communicate specific data.
- Be sure that any visual aid you use adds to what you are saying. Slides should be brief, easy to understand and complement your message.
- When designing slides make sure they are clear and visible to the entire audience.
- Practice your presentation with your visual aids and remember to speak to your audience, not to your visual aid or the screen.
- Use a variety of visual aids in your presentation to engage your audience.
- Infographics combine images and graphics to illustrate data and information into a visual story.
- Readers appreciate well-thought-out and designed graphics of all types.
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