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Body Language. Eye Contact. Appropriate Language. Personal Destructors. Effective Use of Voice.
A. Body Language
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A.1. Gestures
Gestures can help bring your presentation to life, impart your conviction (sincerity/assurance), channel nervousness in a positive direction, and convey confidence and enthusiasm.
Use gestures to emphasize a point. Use gestures to direct attention and provide emphasis. Always complete a gesture once youve started it.
A.1. Gestures
Show audience youre pleased with whats going on or what have been said. Descriptive gestures are useful in describing properties of things: Size / Shape / Motion / Direction/ Experiment with a variety of gestures. Practice gestures in front of a mirror or videotape until you are comfortable with them. Remember that you can gesture with your head, arms, hands, or entire body.
Begin the presentation with a relaxed, friendly expression. Vary your expressions to reflect the content of your meeting. Let your face show the delight, amusement, puzzlement, etc., you are feeling. Dont paste on a smile frequently. Dont be afraid to laugh.
A.3. Posture
Use your posture to project confidence. The audiences should be able to tell from the way you physically present yourself that you feel good about what youre saying. Guidelines for Posture (position, stance): * Maintain an erect but relaxed posture. * Keep your arms comfortably at your sides when not using them to gesture. * Avoid rocking, shifting, and staring at the ceiling. * when someone is speaking, make sure your body is fully directed to the speaker.
A.4. Movement
As a general rule, always move with a purpose.
Change your position in the room periodically. Dont plant yourself at the head of the table or room.
B. Eye Contact
Eye contact is a critical element of effective delivery. By making eye contact, you demonstrate your interest in, and concern for, the audiences.
Eye contact also enables you to assess the changing responses of the group. Nervousness can make it difficult for you to maintain eye contact.
B. Eye Contact
Guidelines for making eye contact:
When an audiences is speaking to you, maintain eye contact for at least five seconds. When you are talking, look at the participants. When you are answering an audience's question, look at the questioner, then establish eye contact with the rest of the group.
B. Eye Contact
Coordinate eye contact with movement at times; look and walk toward your audiences rather than just standing still.
Make sure that your eye contact with any individual or section of the group is neither too long nor too short. In general, maintain eye contact for only a few seconds before moving on to the next person or section of the group.
C. Appropriate Language
Its important to adapt your use of language to the circumstances of the audiences. Tailor words and references to their intelligence and academic, technical, and social backgrounds. Avoid overuse of technical terms and buzzwords. Effective use of Pause:
Pause for emphasis or dramatic effect. Pause and take a breath instead of using non words (um, okay, really, you know,etc.) Maintain eye contact when you do pause.
D. Personal Destructors
E.2 Volume
The size of the room and your distance from attendee will determine the volume you choose. Guidelines for effective use of volume:
Adjust your volume to the size of the room. Vary your volume for dramatic effect, but never get too loud or too soft. Concentrate on controlling your projection rather than controlling your volume.
E.3 Inflection
Vary your inflection for emphasis of critical information. Avoid adding inflection for its own sake. Make sure the tone in which you present concepts and respond to incorrect answers is not parental. Audiotape yourself.