Page 201 - The John Adair Handbook of Management and Leadership

CikguOnline
CikguOnline

6 Delivery on the day

Overall you should ensure that your presentation’s:
• beginning – introduces yourself properly, captures the audience
and gives the background, objectives and outline of your talk.
• middle – is kept moving along (indicating whether questions
are to be asked as-you-go or at the end) with eye contact over
the whole audience, at a reasonable pace, with a varying voice
and obvious enjoyment on your part.
• end – is signalled clearly and then goes off with a memorised
flourish.
• questions – are audible to all (or repeated if not), answered
with conciseness, stimulated by yourself asking some questions,
dealt with courteously and with the lights on.
• conclusion – is a strong summary of talk and questions/
discussions and closes with words of thanks.
If you find you are nervous (and this is normal) experiencing fear
and its physical manifestations, remember to:
1 Breathe deeply

2 Manage your hands
3 Look at your audience
4 Move well

5 Talk slowly
6 Compose and relax yourself
7 Remember that the audience is invariably on your side
8 Project forward to the end of the presentation and picture the
audience applauding at the end.

Chapter 8: Communication and presentation 191