{"id":68,"date":"2019-11-21T12:05:32","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T12:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/academic-skills\/?p=68"},"modified":"2024-01-26T09:44:14","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T09:44:14","slug":"effective-presentations-checklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/academic-and-employability-skills\/2019\/11\/21\/effective-presentations-checklist\/","title":{"rendered":"Effective presentations checklist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This checklist outlines how to prepare an effective and successful presentation.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Checklist<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Planning<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Start early.<\/li>\n<li>What are your aims?<\/li>\n<li>What is the focus of your presentation?<\/li>\n<li>Less can be more.<\/li>\n<li>What visual aids will you use and why?<\/li>\n<li>Put yourself in your audience's shoes- who are they? How does this impact on content, style, approach? Why is your topic important (to them)?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>2. Preparation<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Start working on structure (Intro, main body topics, conclusion)<\/li>\n<li>Check logical flow and links between ideas - and flow between team members.<\/li>\n<li>Who is doing what ( group presentation) - Work as a team - meet regularly, share ideas, problem solve together.<\/li>\n<li>Set achievable deadlines and targets.<\/li>\n<li>Write a good introduction - you need to grab attention right away<\/li>\n<li>Think of a hook - (e.g. ask a question, a fascinating fact, a relevant and short anecdote or story, highlight an important issue).<\/li>\n<li>Write a good ending - Recap, Summarise and Conclude.<\/li>\n<li>Work on your visuals - keep them simple - images and headings \/ key words only, check spelling and grammar.<\/li>\n<li>Predict questions and how you will answer them.<\/li>\n<li>Check pronunciation of technical\/difficult vocabulary.<\/li>\n<li>Consider the 'what ifs' - What if the technology fails? What if a team member is ill on the day? What if I get stage fright?<\/li>\n<li>Check out the presentation room beforehand ( if you can) - for layout, technology, and to familiarise yourself with the environment<\/li>\n<li>Rehearse, Rehearse, Rehearse - Record mock presentations on your phone, ask friends and\/or class members \u00a0to be your audience<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>3. Presentation ( &amp; how to develop confidence)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Prepare \u00a0first line and last line ( But don't memorise whole presentation like a script)<\/li>\n<li>Practise your delivery - eye contact, body language (what are you doing with your hands and feet?), pace, pauses between sentences, intonation, speak slowly and clearly, \u00a0chunk ideas together - allow your audience time to consider complex ideas.<\/li>\n<li>Do not read from notes or your slides.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This checklist outlines how to prepare an effective and successful presentation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":298,"featured_media":294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[99],"tags":[151],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-presentation-skills","tag-checklist"],"acf":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":551,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/academic-and-employability-skills\/2021\/03\/31\/dont-panic-about-presentations\/","url_meta":{"origin":68,"position":0},"title":"Don't panic about presentations!","author":"Kerry Vevers","date":"March 31, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"\u201cYou can have brilliant ideas, but if you can\u2019t get them across, your ideas won\u2019t get you anywhere.\u201d \u2013 Lee Iacocca, leading US automobile executive. 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