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Watch authentic London office workers describe the ways to give effective presentations and the skills good presenters need.

Transcript

Interviewer: Today, we’re talking to people about presentations.
What advice would you have for someone giving their first presentation?

Tolani: I would tell anybody who’s presenting to just, first of all, don’t be nervous and prepare. Preparing is
always good before presentation. Actually, draw up maybe your slides or what you intend to present and go
through them a couple of times with someone you feel comfortable with. And once you do that, you know, you
get into the element and even if you are on stage and you make a mistake, you can still just carry on. So, yeah,
just prepare and be yourself when you’re presenting.

Jason: Be confident. It’s not, it’s not a bad thing to … to be afraid, you know. I’ve been doing it for … for many years. In fact, you know, I did a very large presentation last week. I still think you get nerves but it’s how you use those nerves to your advantage and, you know, be comfortable with your ability and make sure you know your subject matter. But yeah, anyone can be successful presenting. It’s, you know, the more you practise the better
you get.

Vivek: Smile; be as confident as you can; and just remember, you’re the most credible person in the room: I think
is probably the three things I’d say, because you’re the one actually presenting and everybody’s hearing you.

Jenny: Probably to practise. I think that’s very important especially if you’re going to be, if you think you’re quite
nervous. As long as you know your content then I think that will really help you get through the presentation.
Interviewer: What skills do you think you need to have to be a good presenter?

Chris: Skills? Again, confidence is a big one … The ability to think on your feet is another good one and also
to make sure you watch the people around you, who you’re talking with and observe them and how they’re
responding, because that can help keep people engaged with how the conversation, the presentation is going.

Kieran: Confidence …, knowing your topic and knowing your audience.

Prad: Be yourself, just be natural, be yourself. You may be nervous; that’s part of being natural. I think your
audience would appreciate that. Skills? Be prepared. Keep it simple. I’ve seen a lot of presentations where
there’s a million words on a single PowerPoint slide and if you, if you— And put stuff up that you actually
understand. If you don’t understand what it means, you can’t talk about it. So don’t lie or pretend.

Tolani: I feel that you need to have maybe good people skills because, you know, with presentations, it’s not
just about the … the words you’re saying, it’s not just about the delivery, but it’s how you’re connecting, you
know, with the people that you’re speaking to. So, if you’re natural and wanting to, you know, talk to people and
work with people then that would also come through within your presentation.
Interviewer: Do you enjoy giving presentations?

Tolani: No! No, I’m joking! So, I … I do as part of my role. Sometimes, I can get a bit nervous depending
on who I’m presenting to. You know, if it’s a bigger group or bigger audience then naturally I would be more
nervous. But in my role it’s something that I do on a, on a daily basis or weekly basis. So that gives me the
opportunity to practise and perfect my presentation skills.

Vivek: Yes. I used to be a teacher. So, I used to teach at high school and because of that I have always
enjoyed speaking in front of large audiences and assemblies, and children coming up to me and saying “Sir, sir,
sir, can we do this?” Yeah, I do like it.

Prad: No, I hate them, but I do them

What makes a good presentation?

How to structure your presentation?

Introduction

Good morning/afternoon everyone and welcome to my presentation. First of all, let me thank you all for coming here today.
Let me start by saying a few words about my own background..
As you can see on the screen, our topic today is……
My talk is particularly relevant to those of you who….
This talk is designed to act as a springboard for discussion.
This morning/ afternoon I’m going to take a look at the recent developments in…..

Presentation structure

In my presentation I’ll focus on three major issues.
This presentation is structured as follows….
The subject can be looked at under the following headings…..
We can break this area down into the following fields….

Handouts (if you have one)

Does everybody have a handout / copy of my report?
I’ll be handing out copies of the slides at the end of my talk.
I can email the PowerPoint presentation to anyone who would like it.
Don’t worry about taking notes, I’ve put all the relevant statistics on a handout for you

Questions

If you have any questions, I am happy to answer them
If you don’t mind, I’d like to leave questions until the end of my talk /there will be time for a Q&A session at the end…

Sequencing phrases

My first point concerns…
First of all, I’d like to give you an overview of….
Next, I’ll focus on…..and then we’ll consider….
Then I’ll go on to highlight what I see as the main points of….
Finally, I’d like to address the problem of…..
Finally, I’d like to raise briefly the issue of….

Highlighting information

I’d like to put the situation into some kind of perspective
I’d like to discuss in more depth the implications of….
I’d like to make more detailed recommendations regarding….
I’d like you to think about the significance of this figure here
Whichever way you look at it, the underlying trend is clear

Conclusion

I’d just like to finish with the words of a famous scientist/ politician/ author…….
Now let’s go out and create opportunities for…!

Glossary

Springboard– springboard is also something that provides an opportunity to achieve something

Handout– a document given to students or reporters that contains information about a particular subject

Q&A – an abbreviation for ‘question and answer’