Explore the elements that contribute to preparing for and successfully delivering presentations, such as audience analysis, methods for crafting your message, planning for careful and effective oral presentation, and creating supportive material and presentation aids.
Your employer will likely ask you to present your ideas and knowledge, whether to make a sales pitch, offer your point of view, or present an award to a colleague. Most oral presentations, whether delivered face-to-face or online, follow specific protocols. In this course, you will practice your skills to become a more proficient and confident presenter, both face-to-face and online.
This course has two parts. First, we will explore the elements of communication and what they mean. We will study how to analyze an audience to develop a clear, appropriate, and effective presentation that informs, persuades, or entertains. We will discuss how to deliver a presentation with expertise, organize presentation materials, offer relevant supporting evidence, and include references to establish credibility and authority. We will also explain how to tailor your speech for your audience with compelling presentation aids.
In the second part of the course, we will explore how to deliver an oral presentation that incorporates appropriate language and effective delivery techniques. We will discuss how to use proper tone, volume, rate, and modulation of voice, body language, eye contact, and other forms of nonverbal communication. We will also discuss how to present online, strategies for managing public speaking anxiety, and how to plan for the unexpected.
- Unit 1: The Elements of Communication
- Unit 2: Analyze Your Audience
- Unit 3: Making Your Presentation Relevant
- Unit 4: Structuring Your Presentation
- Unit 5: Providing Supporting Content
- Unit 6: Creating Your Presentation Aids
- Unit 7: Delivering Your Presentation
- Unit 8: Categories of Presentation Delivery
- Unit 9: Speaking to an Online Audience
- Unit 10: Using Your Presentation Aids
- Unit 11: Overcoming Anxiety and Uncertainty
- Recognize elements of communication when preparing for and giving a presentation;
- Analyze an audience to create an effective presentation;
- Choose careful and thoughtful language that is appropriate for your audience;
- Choose a presentation topic according to your expertise, audience, and expectations for the occasion;
- Develop an outline that identifies a clear central message with supporting main points;
- Choose a speech pattern to organize a presentation's main points; Choose strong, appropriate content that supports a central message;
- Identify strategies for creating presentation aids that enhance the verbal message;
- Explain cohesive oral presentation techniques for style and language, citing authoritative sources, and appropriate presentation aids;
- Identify the fundamentals of oral presentation, such as tone, volume, rate, and modulation of voice, body language, and eye contact; and
- Identify methods for addressing public speaking anxiety.