Effective Presentation Skills: A Guide to Delivering Successful Talks, Study notes of Communication and Presentation Skills

Download Effective Presentation Skills: A Guide to Delivering Successful Talks and more Study notes Communication and Presentation Skills in PDF only on Docsity! HOW TO GIVE A GOOD @ PRESENTATION WHY BOTHER GIVING A GOOD TALK? First impressions matter! There’s no point doing good work if others don’t know about it or can’t understand what you did. Good practice for a teaching career! Good practice for any career! Helps you sort out what you’ve done, and understand it better yourself. TOP 10 POINTERS FOR A GOOD TALK 6. Use color to emphasize 7. Use illustrations to get across key concepts May include limited animation 8. Make eye contact 9. Be ready to skip slides if time is short 10. Practice !! A “TYPICAL” PROJECT TALK OUTLINE Title/author/affiliation (1 slide) Forecast (1 slide) Give gist of problem attacked and insight found Outline (1 slide) Background Motivation and Problem Statement (1-2 slides) Related Work (0-1 slides) Methods (1-3 slides) Explain your approach; illustrate algorithm Who am I? What is the problem? Why is it important? What have others done? What is my approach? A “TYPICAL” PROJECT TALK OUTLINE Results (2-6 slides) Present key results and key insights. This is main body of the talk, but don’t try to show ALL results. Summary (1 slide) Future Work (0-1 slides) Backup Slides (0-3 slides) Optionally have a few slides ready to answer expected questions. 3 Things to Remember!