1.
PRESENTATION SKILLS IN
I.T.
Lecture 1

2.
PRESENTATION SKILLS
 Presenting information clearly and
effectively is a key skill to get your
message or opinion across and, today,
presentation skills are required in
almost every field.

3.
 Presenting or speaking to an audience
regularly tops the list in surveys of people’s
fears – more than heights, flying or dying

4.
PRESENTATION SKILLS
 Oral
 Multimedia
 Power point presentations
 Short impromptu presentations
 Long planned presentations

5.
Presentation Theory
Successful presentation = Preparation + Knowledge
+ Confidence
+ Control

6.
Get Started
 You have 4-7 seconds to make a positive impact and good
opening impression
 In the 30 second margin
 Don’t start with a joke or make an off-hand comment
 Smile!
 Jokes are high risk
 Don’t apologize for anything

7.
Get Started
 6-8 minutes = average attention span of a listener
 Memorize a couple a good quotations and credit the
source
 Be daring, and bold, and have fun
 Create analogies and themes

8.
Sample “Spice” Stories
 Questions
 Pictures, cartoons, and video clips
 Sound-clips
 Straw polls
 Audience participation exercise
 Quotations
 Props
 Examples and Analogies
 Your body language, and the changing tone and pitch
of your voice

9.
Longer Presentations
 Break ever 45 minutes
 Get up and stretch
 Do not speak all the time

10.
Font Rule
San Serif Fonts for
computers and LCD
Serif Fonts for printed visual
aids

11.
Font Rule
 Use no more than two different fonts
 No more than two size/bold/italic
 14-16 font size for the body
 Avoid upper case in the body
 Use notes, prompts, or cue cards

12.
Creating and Giving Presentation
Step-by-step guide
 1. Define purpose
 2. Gather content and presentation ideas
 3. Structure the subject matter
 4. Develop how to present it
 5. Prepare presentation
 6. Practice
 7. Plan, experience, control the environment
 8. Dress rehearsal if warranted