1. Presenting your Message with Confidence & Impact
ILRI Graduate Fellows skills training
Nairobi 30th September 2013

2. How do we make our presentations………..
Memorable Compelling
Effective body language and voice
Visual
Confidence Engaging

3. Why effective presentation skills?
“As soon as you move one step from the bottom,
your effectiveness depends on your ability to reach
others through the spoken and written word”
Peter Drucker

4. What may have led to this?

5. Impactful Presentations - Tips
• Why does it matter?
• How do I grab their attention? E.g. tell a story, Joke
• How does it relate to the audience (WIIFM)
significance
• Convincing
• Memorable
• Scalable
Structure
• Use visuals whenever possible
• 1 point per slide
• Few matching colors and fonts
Simplicity
• Present it loud
• Get feedback
• Check room and equipment
Rehearsal

6. Significance
Can’t find meaning or
Have no passion for it?
Don’t Present

7. Structure
How you place the
building blocks
of your story
Ensure its Convincing, memorable, scalable

8. Structure
• Tell them
what you are
going to tell
them
Memorable
opening
• Tell them
Body
• Tell them
what you
have told
them
Conclusion

9. Simplicity

10. Is it that simple to be simple?

11. Simplicity
Inform me with less text more imagery/Visuals

12. Rehearsal
Presentation
As I said
blah, blah
blah………..
Slow
down!
Practice isn’t the thing
you do once you’re
good. It’s the thing you
do that makes you
good.

13. Presenters Impact
Body Language,
55%
Tone of Voice, 38%
Words, 7%

14. Body Language Tips
Postures &
Gestures
Orientation/
Positioning
Proximity
Looks/
Appearance
Eye
Contact
Expressions
of Emotion
Voice

15. Overcoming nerves during presentations
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbDipVRt5aE

16. Could you tell a story instead?
https://www.dropbox.com/s/njgpsug884kha7v/MS
LGROUP%20Storytelling%20%28High%29.flv
5 minutes mini session by Susan Macmillan

17. The use of visuals and Multimedia
Taster 5 minutes session by Muthoni Njiru

18. Resources you can use to enhance your
presentation
www.slideshare.net
• Upload presentations publicly or privately
• Download presentations on any topic and reuse or remix
• Embed on blogs, websites, company intranets
• Share on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn

19. www.prezi.com – cloud based presentation software

20. https://docs.google.com/templates?type=presentations

21. http://www.ted.com/talks
http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_turere_a_peace_treaty_with_the_lions.html

22. http://www.pechakucha.org/
20 images, each for 20 seconds. The images advance automatically and you
talk along to the images.

23. http://igniteshow.com/
At the events Ignite presenters share their personal and professional passions, using 20 slides
that auto-advance every 15 seconds for a total of just five minutes.

24. http://www.toastmasters.org/
Practice your public speaking skills

25. http://www.flickr.com/
Download and share images

26. http://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en&tab=ii
Google images

28. And finally…………..one more thing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-ntLGOyHw4

29. Preparation: Consider……….
1. How much time do I have?
2. What’s the venue like?
3. Who is the audience? What’s their background?
4. What do they expect of me?
5. What’s the fundamental purpose of my talk? What
is my key message?
6. What visual medium is most appropriate for this
particular situation and this audience?

30. Practice Makes Perfect !
Panelists: Susan MacMillan, Joyce Maru, Muthoni Njiru, Tezira
Lore, Albert Mwangi
ILRI Graduate Fellows
Toastmasters Session