Effective presentations.

Title:

Presentations

Introduction:

Presentations can be classified as vocational or avocational, expository or persuasive, and can also be impromptu, extemporaneous, written or memorized.

Content:

Three basic purpose for giving oral presentations:

-To inform

-To persuade

-To build goodwill

Types of presentation

1. Informative
2. Motivation
3. Interviews
4. Persuasive
5. Good will
6. Multipurpose
7. Sales
8. Training
9. Entertainment
10. Political
11. Image building

Informative presentations can be divided in 2 distinct categories:

• The reporting presentations bring the audience up to date on projects or events
• The explanatory presentation provides information about operations. etc.

On using informative presentation, you must keep it brief and to the point.

-Time: explain when

-Place: explain where

-Cause and effect: how of the things

-Logical order: list items in order of importance

Persuasive presentation

We can call these presentations transitions; they seek to motivate people and lead them to a specific action or to make a decision. You seek to convince to accept a certain proposal through loci, evidence and emotion.

-An impressive introduction, you need your audience’s attention and you can get it by presenting them with a need that you can satisfy.

-Tease the audience by describing all the advantages you have to offer

-They must be willing to agree

-Closing with a call to action

-Ask for an order, lead them to where you want them to be.

Good will presentation

Often designed to be entertain, make people feel better or improve the reputation of a company. They can be ceremonial, such as award presentation, the unveiling of memorial plaques, and so on. These events may include a presentation, in a form of speech most often, slides show or multimedia and they can be after-dinner speeches.

Multipurpose presentation

It is evident that sometimes your presentation will have more than one purpose. A crucial thing here is to hierarchically organize them from the least to the most important one.

Instructional presentations

This is the forum you would want to use to make presentations to deliver new knowledge on specific directions or even orders

-Explain the value of what you’re presenting

-State the learning objectives

-If you are demonstrating:

• Provide a demonstrating the first time without commenting
• Then to it again, explain briefly.
• The third time explain step by step
• If possible, participants should practice it

-Feedback

Arousing presentations

Sometimes the best way to make people care or notice about a certain situation or problem is to show it to them directly, managing emotions in order to make the audience more open and receptive to the topic. Two words are the key here sincerity and enthusiasm.

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