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Giving Effective Presentations
There are three
essential pieces of information
that can make your
presentation fly: use
visual aids where you can;
rehearse, rehearse, rehearse; the
audience will only remember three messages.
Professor Albert Mehrabian did a lot of research into how we take in
information during a presentation. He conducted that 55 per cent of the
information we take in is visual and only 7 per cent is text. There are some
important
conclusions that we can take in from this information:
Use visuals (pictures,
graphs,
tables) whenever you can.
In
a speech, you are only using 38 per cent of the
communication
medium.
Ditch the
bullet points.
In a
Study at the Wharton
Research Centre it was shown that using visual
slides had a dramatic effect on message
retention. The old
adage that “a picture
is worth a thousand words” is as true today as it has always been. By using
visuals
in your presentation, you can expect
roughly to double the chance of
achieving your
objectives. Moreover, if you are trying to make a sales
presentation or
a job interview presentation, this piece of advice can have a
major
impact on your
bank balance.
There is no end of people who spend hours pouring over their bullet points
but fail to rehearse properly for the presentation. The old proverb says: “If you
fail to prepare, you are prepared to fail.” Rehearse your presentation and it will
get better. You should rehearse at least four times,
and if you can get word
perfect so much the better. Make sure that one of your rehearsals is in front of a
really scary audience – family, friends, partners, colleagues, or children. They
will tell you quite plainly, where you are going wrong – as well as providing you
with support that you need. If you have to give a presentation
in a short period
of time, then try to practise your presentation against the clock. This is
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