Basic Platform Skills: Giving a Great Presentation

This is the first of two videos on the platform skills that will make your presentation come across great. In the next one, we’ll look at some of the advanced skills that professionals use. But, in this one, let’s focus on the basics that will make you a great presenter.
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PRESENTATION SKILLS
This video is part of course module 2.2.2
Program 2: Manager as Communicator
Course 2: Presentation Skills
Section 2: Delivery
Other videos in this section include:
How to Control Your Nerves Before and During Your Presentation https://youtu.be/ztB6Qj4NnD4
Travelling to Your Presentation: Speakers Checklists for Rad Warrior Presenters https://youtu.be/n9LNTAhtWs8
Basic Platform Skills: Giving a Great Presentation https://youtu.be/ReEK7ZTK7nM
Advanced Platform Skills: Master-level Presentation Tips https://youtu.be/mOEhksbVcHs
Managing Audience Questions in Your Presentation [inc the Tough Ones!] https://youtu.be/Qygaao2pB5U
LESSON NOTES
When you are presenting, four things tend to dictate your impact (rather than that of your visual aids, which I covered in an earlier video - https://youtu.be/jP2Q5Kdq_Ww)
1. Your Content
We’ve covered that, too:
- https://youtu.be/AKtI5QgLFX0
- https://youtu.be/cwdhUk2IZPQ
So, we’ll look at the other three in the order of their impact
2. Physical Impact (body language)
3. Vocal Impact (your voice)
4. Rhetorical Impact (your words and the way you string them together)
Physical Impact
o Clothing and appearance - Who do you trust most for honest and objective feedback?
o Upright
o Symmetric
o Firm and stable
o Eye contact - scan your audience - mini-fixes at different places
Vocal Impact
o Volume (loudness)
o Pace and rhythm (speed)
o Pitch (tone) - lower more credible - relaxation and breathing
o Modulation (emphasis, variety through sentence)
o Inflection (emphasis, variety through a word)
o Stress or emphasis of a word or phrase (with pace, volume)
o Timbre (quality)- clench and unclench jaw,
o Projection (locus)
Rhetorical Impact
o Use natural language simple words and easy grammatical structure - plain language - avoid jargon
o Sensory language
o Permissive language (you can…)
o Positive language
(processing impact of negatives)
o Make your point clearly
o Strong open and close
o Rhythm
o Repetition
o Threes
o Contrasts (this not that)
o Linking back
o Pauses and silences
o 10-minute chunks (20 min max)
RECOMMENDED EXERCISE
Next time you are rehearsing, dedicate three rehearsals to focus on one of each at a time, in this order:
1. Physical impact - your body language (2 MC CPD Points)
2. Vocal impact - your voice (2 MC CPD Points)
3. Rhetorical impact - your words and speech patterns (2 MC CPD Points)
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RECOMMENDED READING
My top recommendation is my own book:
How to Speak so people Listen - https://geni.us/HSPL
Other Recommendations:
The Presentation Book - https://geni.us/6sqr
Presentation Zen - https://geni.us/mrvmeh
The Pyramid Principle - https://geni.us/9cbjvBs
The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs - https://geni.us/KJpG
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https://kit.co/MikeClayton/presenter-s-kit (the links are affiliated)
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CHAPTER MARKERS
00:00 - The basics of what will make you a great presenter
00:29 - Four things dictate your impact
01:22 - Your physical impact (Body Language)
03:19 - Your vocal impact
11:51 - Your rhetorical impact
14:14 - My last and greatest tip
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