Different Presentation Techniques for Diverse Audiences

Force a Pause

To be effective, you have to possess the habit of forced pauses as the audience can have an opportunity to think about your talk for a minute and digest all the information as well. Do not talk as if there is no end to your Presentation, because it will eliminate the chance of inviting questions from listeners.

Make User Friendly Notes

To indicate the must information, use highlight pens and to avoid looking down again and again, you can use the top 2/3 of the page. Not just this, in order to make the types easy to read use bullet ed points. If you are able to do that, certainly it will make a perfect Presentation for you and your audience.

What to say

If you are a non English speaker you may find challenging to present an idea to a large audience, but there are some phrases and sentences that you can practice in advance. There are tons of useful phrases for a presentation but here are just a few ideas depending on the need or purpose of what you are presenting.

When you introduce a topic you can start saying “Good morning” or “Good afternoon”… “please let me introduce myself. I am …”

• “Today I’d like to introduce you this new project ….”
• “The topic for today is…”
• “Why my topic will be important today? It will be important because …”

Then, during the introduction of the structure you can say something like:

• “This presentation is structured in the following way.”
• “First, I’d like to discuss about…”

Closing the presentation is another challenging phase. You can learn more about closing remarks for presentations or some closing speech examples for presentations, but  in any case, the following examples can also be helpful.

• “That’s all folks…” (if it is an informal audience)
• “Feel free to ask any question…”
• “If nobody want to ask any question then we are ready and the presentation finished here. Thank you very much!”
• “I’d like to personally thank you for participating on this presentation and I’ll be available for any question.”

Practice

When you are ready with your rehearsal, it’s better if you can do it in front of a friendly audience who can give you some constructive and honest feedback. If you will adopt the method of practicing the presentation loudly, it will increase your confidence level and you will appear to be more passionate. Preparation is essential to make a good presentation. You need to give time for a practice and try to avoid wrong keywords and phrases. Eliminate filler words during a PowerPoint presentation. Ehmm, Ahh, Ehemm, etc. are not good.

Have a Backup Plan

Always take with you a laptop with slides on it, USB stick with your Presentation and Print out set of slides. All this will prove to be quite useful for you in the situation of when there is no power lead for the laptop; projector blows a bulb and no loudspeakers.