PROFESSIONAL

ORAL
PRESENTATIONS
WORKSHOP

ORAL PRESENTATIONS
IMPORTANCE
Habit 5 - seek first to
understand and then to be
understood

One of the great maxims of the

modern age

Extremely powerful

Simple and effective

Essential for developing and

maintaining positive relationships
in all aspects of life

ORAL PRESENTATIONS
IMPORTANCE

Specific skills in entrylevel employees:

teamwork, flexibility,
and communication

Communication skills:
oral, written, and
technological
Oral presentation skills lead to
promotions

ORAL PRESENTATIONS
IMPORTANCE

An oral presentation in the

workplace is your chance to:

Show off the work you`ve been

doing

Prove your value to the company

Get a promotion

ORAL PRESENTATIONS
DEFINITION

Brief discussions
of a focused topic
delivered to a
group of listeners
in order to impart
knowledge or to
stimulate
discussion

ORAL PRESENTATIONS
TYPES

According to purpose

Informative

Persuasive

According to degree of preparation

Impromptu

Extemporaneous

Others (memorized-read)

ORAL PRESENTATIONS
TYPES

Informative

Goal: to provide interesting and useful

information to increase the knowledge
of your audience

Key elements: establish credibility,

repeat key points, make it interesting

Examples: providing information

about a person, a process, a concept,
an idea.

ORAL PRESENTATIONS
TYPES

Persuasive

Goal: to persuade or convince the

listeners of the validity of the speaker's
argument

Key elements: convey your credibility as a

speaker and your passion for the subject

Examples: persuading someone to change

their opinion or at least take into account
some elements that have not been
considered before

STEPS

ORAL PRESENTATIONS
STEPS
PLANNING
STRUCTURING
PREPARING
PRESENTING

PLANNING

When?

Where?

How?

Why?

To whom?

How long?

STRUCTURING

Adjust the content and structure to

the medium of speech

Make it easy for the audience to

follow your presentation

Expect to cover much less content

than you would in a written report

Make difficult points easier to

understand by preparing the
listener using plenty of examples
and going back over them later

STRUCTURING

Leave time for questions within

the presentation

Give your presentation a simple

and logical structure

Include an introduction in which

you outline the points you intend
to cover and a conclusion in
which you go over the main
points of your talk

PREPARING

Practice
beforehand in
front of one or two
friends and/or
video-tape your
rehearsal

PRESENTING

Pay attention to

the quality of your voice (volume, speed

and fluency, clarity and pronunciation)

your rapport with the audience (make

eye contact, and be sensitive to how the
audience is responding to your talk and
what you look like from the point of
view of the audience

the use of notes

use of visual aids

STRUCTURE

STRUCTURE
Summary
?
Key
points?
Conclusion

Logical?
Chronological?
From general to
specific?
From accepted
to
Controversial?
Cause/effect?
Problem/solution
?

Body

Introduction

Topic?
Objective
?
Thesis?

STRUCTURE
Tell your audience what you're going to tell them
Tell them
Then tell them what you told them

STRUCTURE
THE
INTRODUCTION

A good introduction :

Attracts and focuses the attention of

the audience
Puts the speaker and audience at
ease
Explains the purpose of the talk and
what the speaker would like to achieve
Gives an overview of the key points

STRUCTURE
THE
INTRODUCTION

The opener (say something that will

capture your audience's attention and
give you rapport with the people):

A greeting (Good morning. Thank you

for inviting me), a shocker (Today a
teenager`s dying from drug
overdose. ..), a little humor, an
anecdote, a picture with words, a
quote, a question.

STRUCTURE
THE BODY

presented in a logical
order
easy for the audience to
follow
natural to your topic

STRUCTURE
THE BODY
SIGNPOSTIN
G

STRUCTURE
THE BODY

SIGNPOSTING
To give an example:

Now let's take an

example.
An example of this can
be found...
To illustrate this
Let's see this through
an example.
For example, for
instance, e.g.

To summarize:
To sum up
Let me summarize by
saying
So that concludes my
overview.
In conclusion
Briefly said
In short
What I've tried to show in

STRUCTURE
THE BODY

SIGNPOSTING
To emphasize:
What is very important
is...
What is important to
remember...
I'd like to emphasize the
fact that...
to stress... to highlight...
to underline...
What I tried to bring
out....

To refer to what you will

say:
We will see this a little later
on.
This will be the subject of
part 3.
We will go into more detail
on that later.
For now it is suffice to say

STRUCTURE
THE
CONCLUSION

A good conclusion:
Reminds the audience of your key
points
Reinforces your message
Ends the presentation on a positive
note and make the audience feel that
they have used their time well

IMPROMPTUS
Tips

TIPS

Grab a pen and a piece of paper

Feel free to acknowledge that you have not

prepared for a speech

Jot down interesting or significant points

Hijack the topic

Begin with your introductory sentence,

elaborate, then start working your way to
your ending sentence

As you deliver your speech, concentrate on

diction and tone

IF YOU GO BLANK

Pretend like you're pausing on purpose. Walk back

and forth slowly, as if you're letting your last point
sink in.

There is always a joker or popular person who will

stand out in the crowd. Stare at someone like this
and try to draw a response from him or her while
you think.

If you need more time to think, you may want to

ask the audience a question. Have a few prepared
ahead, like "Do you have any questions," or "Can
everyone hear me okay?"

If you still can't remember what to say, make up a

reason to pause the speech. You can say, "I'm

Grasp the subject, the words will

follow.
Cato The Elder (234 BC-149 BC, Roman statesman)

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REFERENCES

None of the ideas above are mine. Here are some of the links I consulted:

http://www.speech-topics-help.com/visual-aid-speech-topics.html

http://www.presentationmagazine.com/7sinsvisual.htm

http://www.eruptingmind.com/persuasive-speech-outline/

http://www.suite101.com/content/how-to-prepare-a-persuasive-speech-a140893

http://www.famous-speeches-and-speech-topics.info/speech-topics/persuasive-s
peech.htm

http://www.famous-speeches-and-speech-topics.info/speech-topics/informative-s
peech.htm

http://homeworktips.about.com/od/speechclass/a/impromptu.htm

http://www.best-speech-topics.com/impromptu-speech-topics.html

http://www.best-speech-topics.com/impromptu-speech-topics.html

http://www.gestiopolis.com/Canales4/mkt/hablarmenos.htm

REFERENCES

http://blog.pucp.edu.pe/item/99970/la-presentacion-oral-uso-de-recursos-v
isuales

http://webdelprofesor.ula.ve/economia/dramirez/MICRO/FORMATO_PDF/
ProblemasEconomicos/PASOS_PREPARAR_PRESENTACION_ORAL.pdf
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http://www.itu.int/telecom-wt99/forum/guidelines_forum_session/dos_and_
donts-es.html

http://www.wikilearning.com/monografia/la_competencia_de_los_nuevos_g
erentes-la_presentacion_oral/14382-14

http://www.gestiopolis.com/canales2/gerencia/1/compgerkar.htm

http://www.optica.unican.es/Docencia/presentacionoral.pdf
http://www.dm.prohosting.com/Otros_Autores/Presentaciones_Orales_III/PDF
_PresentacionesIII/pdf_presentacionesiii.shtml

http://cvc.cervantes.es/ensenanza/biblioteca_ele/ciefe/pdf/01/cvc_ciefe_0
1_0018.pdf

http://administracion.itam.mx/docs/PresentacioOralesGu%EDa.PDF

REFERENCES

http://www.aresearchguide.com/3tips.html

http://www.courseworks.unimelb.edu.au/researchandwriting/oralpresent
ations.php

http://go.owu.edu/~dapeople/ggpresnt.html

http://academics.hamilton.edu/occ/usingPowerPoint.pdf

http://www.ehow.com/how_5640183_prepare-effective-slides-oral-presen
tation.html

.http://www.speech-topics-help.com/visual-aid-speech-topics.html

http://www.eruptingmind.com/persuasive-speech-outline/

http://www.suite101.com/content/how-to-prepare-a-persuasive-speech
-a140893

http://www.famous-speeches-and-speech-topics.info/speech-topics/pers
uasive-speech.htm

REFERENCES

http://homeworktips.about.com/od/speechclass/a/imp
romptu.htm

http://www.best-speech-topics.com/impromptu-speech
-topics.html

http://www.best-speech-topics.com/impromptu-speech
-topics.html

http://www.gestiopolis.com/Canales4/mkt/hablarmeno
s.htm

http://blog.pucp.edu.pe/item/99970/la-presentacion-or
al-uso-de-recursos-visuales