Concluding entry on Presentation Skills
Follow-up to First entry on Delivering effective presentations from David's blog
Over the last few weeks, I have tried to improve different aspects of good presenation skills.
In my first action point, I tried to improve my body posture. I learned from the workshop that good body posture was perhaps the most important component for a good presentation. Having had problems with posture in the past, I tried my best to return to a ‘neutral stance’ as often as possible after communicating. I found that having a better posture helped me come across as more confident and happier to others which in turn made me feel more confident and happier.
My second action point was to practice reading aloud to practice my presentation skills. Althought it felt very strange to read aloud in an empty room, I found the exercise quite useful for timing, confidence and correcting work.
My third action point was to use the ‘must, should and could’ know technique of assembling information in my dissertation work. Althought this was difficult for the purpose of organising a more detailed written work, I found the technique somewhat effective with the help of colour-coding my notes. Thus I was able to re-apropriate a technique for presentation work into a technique for written work.
Despite the lack of presentation opportunities over the last few weeks, I have found that practising the different aspects that make up good presentation skills can be helpful in many other fields of work.
Good posture and reading aloud presentations can be very useful in building confidence in public scenarios. Reading aloud can also help reasses and correct existing work. Using techniques of what people ‘must, should and could’ know about key bits of information can also be useful in organising a large piece of written work like a dissertation. Overall the presentation workshop and the three action points from it have made me feel more confident about public events. I will certainly use these techniques for any presentation I may need to do in the future.
David Walker
31 Jul 2014 13:00
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Nathalie Dalton-King
David,
Considering the lack of presentation opportunities that you have had over the past few weeks, I think you have thought up excellent ways to develop the techniques that we discussed in the session and found, as you so clearly write, that they can be useful in lots of other areas.
You can also consider one other learning point from the session: choose the timing of training sessions carefully, in relation to the opportunities that are available for you to use it!
I will tell the Skills Programme team that you have completed the requirements for the Portfolio.
Very best of luck with the rest of your studies
Nathalie
03 Aug 2014, 17:21
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