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Creating and Delivering
Oral and Online
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Build Your Career
with Oral Presentations
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Display your skills
Think on your feet

Grasp complex issues
Handle challenges

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Three-Step Process
• Planning
• Writing
• Completing

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Planning Presentations
• Analyze the situation

• Select the medium
• Organize the information

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Analyzing the Situation
• Purpose

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• Audience

– Inform

– Emotional state

– Persuade

– Language issues

– Collaborate

– Circumstances

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Selecting the Medium
• In-person presentations
• Podcasts
• Webcasts

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Organizing Presentations
• Define the main idea
• Limit the scope
• Choose the approach
• Prepare the outline

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Planning Outline
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State purpose and main idea
Organize major points and subpoints
Identify introduction, body, and close
Show your connections
Show your sources
Choose a title
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Speaking Outline
• Follow the planning outline
• Condense points and transitions to
keywords
• Add delivery cues
• Arrange your notes

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Writing Presentations
• Adapting to your audience
• Composing your presentation
– Formality
– Audience
– Subject
– Message
– Conclusion
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Creating the Introduction
• Arouse interest
• Build credibility
• Preview the message

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Composing the Message
• Limit the main points
• Connect the ideas
• Engage the audience

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Writing the Conclusion
• Restate the main points
• Describe the next steps
• Close the presentation

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Completing
Presentations
• Revise the message
• Master the delivery
• Prepare to speak
• Overcome anxiety

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Mastering the Delivery
• Memorizing
• Reading
• Impromptu speaking
• Speaking from notes

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Preparing to Speak

• Know the location
• Consider the audience
• Adapt the content

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Overcoming Anxiety
• Extra material

• Get comfortable

• Practice

• Don’t panic

• Think positively

• Focus on message

• Visualize success

• Engage audience

• Take deep breaths

• Seek friendly faces

• Be ready

• Keep going

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Appearing More
Confident
• Don’t rush
• Maintain eye contact
• Stand tall
• Control your gestures
• Use your voice

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Responding to Questions
• Focus on the questioner
• Respond appropriately
• Maintain control
• Survive the hot seat
• Encourage questions
• Conclude the presentation
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