We currently not providing any soft skill training classes but there’s a chance we will conduct it via online in future.

We will provide some brief guidance on how to deliver a good presentation speech and here’s few tips on how to do so.

Presentation Skills Training

• Check your microphone before starting your presentation to make sure the functionality works
• There’s no need of microphone if you have a small crowd of audience who has close distance to you
• Check your time because the audience doesn’t has the stamina to listen on your speech for more than few hours
• Set a check point or schedule on break time or lunch time
• Study your audience behavior as you speak. If there’s lots of yawn means they are bored so you have to be creative in getting their attention by involving them
• Keep your hand still and do not make any fidget action that will distract audience concentration
• Brief the audience before you start the presentation on what you are going to tell them in summary
• Check your presentation power point presentation a day before to make sure you didn’t miss any point out

If you learn and adopt presentation skills as one of your soft skills portfolio, you will stand a good chance to have a successful career.

Soft Skill hope that you can make presentation skills to be part of your personal competences in your working journey.

Here are the nine tips to help you giving a good presentation:

Tips For Good Presentation

• Write down the point that you are going to deliver in piece of paper and try not to read from it. This tactic will help to reduce the necessity in looking on the paper before talk
• Make your gestures big enough to be seen from the very end of the room. This will help to attract continuous attention from the audience who might be sleepy
• Record your presentation speech on tape to analyze whether your voice is strong enough to get attention
• Speak with passion. Passion keeps the audience feel alive in your presentation
• Pause your presentation if you find that you need some breathe taking breathe. Breathe is important to reduce your nervous on stage
• Reduce the irritating “erm” or “ah” in your speech. If you need to think of what to say in next sentence, take a pause will do and think it without any noise
• Facial expression during speech convey a lot of message and use it whenever appropriate
• Do not distract your audience with any fidget action like shaking legs or biting nails
• Leave presentation handout to reinforce your point to your audience in the end of presentation session

We hope these presentation tips give you some inspiration to move forward in preparing a good speech.

If you are a good presenter, then the things which concern you will be the preparation of the equipment before any workshop starts.

Managing Your Presentation Workshop

• First thing first, you need to be familiar with the workshop room such as light and presentation equipment such as microphones and projector
• Arrive earlier or day before on the workshop room and practice on stage before you have a real start with audience
• Introduce yourself to audience and have a conversation with them to know the characteristic of your audience
• Don’t stick your eyes on the notes while delivering your speech. You need to make the eye contact to your audience to get their attention.
• Try to create eye contact on all the audience in the workshop room but make it slowly from one corner to another.
• Besides making eye contact from the stage, you can move around the workshop room to enhance relationship with the audience.

All the practical point above will create a platform for you to continue to grow your expertise as a presenter.

In the end, you will learn just enough for you to deliver your presentation without embarrassing yourself or wasting your audience time.

Mental And Speech Ready

You will not able make any impressive presentation without preparation. What’s the trick to sharpen your presentation speech?

First, you can use the technique of remembering your hard time and successful time which you are proud of in your career achievement.

This is important especially when you are going to deliver a motivational talk in front of crowd. You can take the chances to look back on your successful time before the speech.

Give the crowd time of 5-10 seconds when the audience is having a laugh or applaud for your sharing and this will boost your confidence in the next speech.

Calm Your Nerves

Remain calm and take a few deep breathe before you walk into the stage like Steve Jobs.

Don’t be surprise to know that even experienced speakers does suffer from nerves before entering the presentation hall.

Relax your jaws with the action of yawning can help it reducing the tension on your nerves.

You need to self assured that the audience going to be ready to listen for your entertaining speech and you need to ready yourself physically as well.

Toastmasters Improve Business Presentation

If you have heard of Toastmasters program, you should take the opportunity to join the session to improve your presentation skills.

Big company or Multinational Company usually do encourage their staff to join the Toastmasters program for free of charges.

In Toastmasters session, you will get a chance to practice your speaking skills and communication skills as well as opportunities to practice specific skills in preparing presentations.

You don’t have to worry about the crowd will make you as a laughing stock because the crowd who listen to your speech mostly is beginner to the Toastmasters program as well.

Everyone will have their chance to stand out and make the speech and keep an eye on how the other people present. Don’t laugh but learn from their mistake.

Once you keep practicing your speaking, the confidence will come in naturally to shape your presentation skills.

Don’t be intimidate by the review from the judge about your presentation, learn from it and tomorrow you will be a better presenter.

If your company do conduct the Toastmasters session for free, we would encourage you to join it as we believe practice makes a perfect presenter.

So what is the basic things that you need to prepare before you stand in front of hundred audiences and present?

First you need to overcome your fear to speak in front of large crowd of audience.

It wouldn’t be easy but there’s some tips and guide that Soft Skill can share with you to achieve better delivery of course or seminar presentation.

Practical Preparation For Course & Seminar Presentation

• Record your speech as a podcast and repeat it to hear back to back to improve your seminar presentation skills
• Try to record your course presentation in videos and replay it back to see on the gesture or body language when delivering speech
• Improve your course presentation by practicing in front of the mirror. Though it sounds weird, but research has proved that speaking in front of mirror can helps to increase the confidence
• Rehearse your seminar presentation few times using your visual aids just to make sure you have the ‘touch’ to deliver
• Record your timing and make sure you didn’t use more than the time allocated

Notes & Memory Tips For Course & Seminar Presentation

• Create  separate main point in papers, scramble and mix it. Choose one by one and give your speech based on the point that you open.
• Order your main point in notes and fill in the sub point to memorize your speech delivery
• Practice to deliver your seminar presentation point without looking on the point

Soft Skill will provide you tips on how to use visual multimedia effectively in your presentation in front of large audience.

Too many text based or bullet point slides created for the audience will cause them to get a hard copy of your slides in the end.

Remember that a picture speaks a thousand of words and this guide will help you to leverage your multimedia presentation just to get into the heart of the audience.

Follow the presentation skill tips as below for the effective communication.

Effective Multimedia Presentation Skills Tips

• Don’t rush to present when your new slide appears in projected screen, pause for a moment for your audience to blend into the new information
• Do not create text-heavy slides, it will cause the audience to read instead of listening to you
• Do not use or test any striking color in your presentation slide which will make it harder to read
• If you plan to use few colors in your slide, try to use it with the maximum of 3 colors to avoid audience eyesore
• Keep using the same background color to continue the same rhythm of your presentation
• Use graphical presentation such as charts when presenting figures, and it will be far more effective than describing in words
• Picture speaks a thousand words, choose your picture for presentation and make sure it aligned to your presentation topic
• Use the same font in all the slides, changing it from slide to slide will cause audience eye confusion
• Proof read your multimedia presentation to make sure there’s no error in spelling and grammar
• Slide numbering in your multimedia presentation will be useful as timing for yourself as presenter
• Shutdown the overhead projector when you are 100% sure that you don’t need the projection of your presentation

Good business presentation skills are within everyone’s reach.

For certain people, conducting a presentation was not easy and unpleasant experience if you as the presenter have no clue when standing in front of your audience.

Soft Skill will provide you some tips on how to conduct effective business presentation skills in front of large audience.

Is not only delivering the information to your audience, but you need to have advance presentation skills to able to make your topic alive in your audience heart.

Effective Business Presentation Skills Tips

• The audience will think on what is the business related to them and you need to make them pay attention to you, even as simple as you complimenting them
• If laughter burst, applause or any other reaction happens in your audience, allow the time to let it happen. Don’t interrupt your audience emotion reaction
• The power of the word “you” should be used more frequently. “What if you face the economy downturn…”
• If you have any real life experience, use it as an example in your business presentation
• Create your presentation in modular format and set a timing when you deliver each point
• Humor can be an effective ways to drive your presentation point, but use it minimally in business presentation topic
• Make sure any humor is appropriate for your audience and does not have any racist, religious and sensitive element in it
• Don’t try to be funny but be humorous and make sure the humor ties to your presentation point. Once again, use this technique minimally

The tips and skills will not make you 100% expert but we believe that practice will makes you a perfect presentation writer.

Tips & Skills Writing PowerPoint Presentation

• Start writing your PowerPoint presentation with the end in mind. What do you want to deliver in your speech? This will drive you writing from beginning until the end
• Find out on the background of your audience before you write the presentation. If you audience was Thinker type, then you have to include some supporting facts in your PowerPoint
• Write your own short introduction and submit it to the host before the presentation starts. This will prepare the audience with the right idea on what is the speech you going to deliver
• Write your PowerPoint presentation for the ear and not for the eye. Don’t read straight away from your PowerPoint presentation, deliver your speech differently but to the same point just to get audience attention
• When you finish writing your PowerPoint Presentation, take some times to practice a good speech
• Use of words such as “definitely”, “never” and “absolutely” are powerful when you deliver your speech on top of PowerPoint presentation
• You can repeat your keep point twice or thrice to form your audience into a group with similar ideas
• Is not necessary to lump all the things you know in 30-40 pages of PowerPoint presentation. Your objective is to generate interest and get the audience to take further action

In the end of this tips, you now acquire useful techniques for effective writing and learn skills that apply to all forms of presentation writing.

The tips and techniques will not make you 100% in form on doing presentation, but we believe that practice makes perfect public speaker.

Presentation Techniques & Tips

• You need to tell what you are going to present to them and in the end revised what you have told them

• Don’t make your speech too long and make it more interesting by telling story to illustrate the point

• It’s always good to use fact and figure or even illustration in your presentation support, but remember that overuse it will cause your audience to slumber

• The opening of your presentation was the crucial part of the whole process. Use the opening to open your audience’s eye and attention.

• Create involvement between the audience to make your presentation more alive

• Open some questions and put in the table. Draw everyone in and get them to provide their opinion

• Even if you make some mistake in the speech, try to continue without an apology of any kind. The audience may not noticed until you brought it up.

• You have to prepare your closing just to make sure your audience got your whole point of presentation in the end

• Remind what is the audience next course of action once the presentation end. If something related to the audience personal development, ask them “How are you going to develop the skills in real life after leaving this room?”