delivering powerful presentations: how to empower your audience! david k. miller, rn, bsn, ms ed,...
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Delivering Powerful Presentations:
How To Empower Your Audience!
David K. Miller, RN, BSN, MS Ed, CDE
OBJECTIVES
• Discuss two key areas of powerful presentations.
• Compare and contrast the elements of strong presentations.
• Formulate an action plan to improve the participant’s presentation skills.
What We Fear…
1. Speaking before a group
2. Heights
3. Insects
4. Financial problems
5. Deep water
6. Sickness, death (tie)The Book of Lists, Wallace and Wallechinski
Quality Standards
Message Content
• Clear Purpose
• Well Organized
• Supporting Evidence
• Good intro/conclusion
• Audience-oriented
Delivery Skills
• Confident
• Enthusiastic
• Good eye contact
• Effective gestures
• Use and design of visuals
Know Your Audience…
• How long is the normal attention span?
• How long is the maximum attention span?
Know Your Audience…
• How long is the normal attention span?
Five to Ten Seconds
• How long is the maximum attention span?
Thirty Seconds
Know Your Audience…
• Listening– Active Listening _____%– Looking Ahead ______%– Reminiscing ______%– Other thoughts ______%
American Psychological Association
Know Your Audience…
• Listening– Active Listening _20__%– Looking Ahead _ 20__%– Reminiscing _40__%– Other thoughts _20__%
American Psychological Association
Assess The Audience
• Who?
• What are their needs?
• What is their knowledge?
• Bias?
• Questions?
• Actions?
Brainstorming
Rules– Don’t judge ideas
– Write quickly
– Don’t worry about accuracy
– Don’t organize your ideas
– Write down everything
Techniques– Key Words
– Paper Slips
– Project Mapping
– Free-Writing
– White Pages
Using PAR
• Body should be 80% of your allotted time
• Use 3-5 key ideas• Key ideas should
clarify your purpose, help your audience understand, and provide evidence
Options to support ideas:– Definition– Explanation– Example– Testimony– Statistics– Facts– Comparison– Analogy
Activity #2
• Select one of the following topics:– Describe your favorite season – Why someone should visit French Lick
• Brainstorm
• Identify one key point
• Use PAR
Activity # 3
• Listen to the following list of words
• Write down as many as you can remember
• What do you notice?
Introduction
• 10% of your allotted time
• Should gain attention
• Proclaim your purpose
• Preview your main points
Ideas for gaining attention:– Illustrations– Humor– Quotations– Stories– Shocking statements
of facts– Challenges
Conclusion
• 10% of your allotted time
• Recap your points without detail
• Reaffirm your purpose
• Close with POWER
Ways to close with power:– The personal “I”– The communal “We”– Optimism, uplift,
challenge– A reference to the
future
Delivery Skills
• Eye contact – Direct– Sweep the room– Maintain for five seconds– Must master this one first!
• Facial expressions – Smile– Most people unaware of expressions– Conveys that you are approachable
Delivery Skills
• Gestures – Natural and expansive– Honor zone– Watch tools in your hands– Gains attention
• Movement – Purposeful– Maintains attention– Be conscious of personal space (3 feet)
Delivery Skills
• Appearance – Professional– Dress better than your audience– What not to wear
• Voice – Variety– Projection, rate, pitch, diction – Pauses– Watch non-words
Questions and Answers
• Timing• Don’t end with question and answer• Don’t say “Good question”• What if I don’t know the answer?• Remember your pauses!
Recap
• Assess the situation
• Proclaim, Affirm, Recap!
• 3-5 key points
• Practice delivery skills
• Choose visuals wisely
Contact Information
• David K. Miller – Health Education and Life Promotion (HELP)
• www.help-stat.com
• 812-546-0592