Make a good presentation

Starting a Presentation

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Starting a Presentation

In modern English, Presentations tend to be much less formal than they were even twenty years ago. Most audience these days prefer a relatively informal approach. However, there is a certain structure to the opening of a Presentation that you should observe.

1. Get people's attention
2. Welcome them
3. Introduce yourself
4. State the purpose of your presentation
5. State how you want to deal with questions

Get people's attention

• If I could have everybody's attention.
• If we can start.
• Perhaps we should begin?
• Let's get started.

Welcome them

• Welcome to Microsoft.
• Thank you for coming today.
• Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.
• On behalf of Intel, I'd like to welcome you.

Introduce yourself

• My name's Jane Shaw. I'm responsible for travel arrangements.
• For those of you who don't know me, my name's Tom Stotter.
• As you know, I'm in charge of public relations.
• I'm the new Marketing Manager.

State the purpose of your presentation

• This morning I'd like to present our new processor.
• Today I'd like to discuss our failures in the Japanese market and suggest a new approach.
• This afternoon, I'd like to report on my study into the German market.
• What I want to do this morning is to talk to you about our new mobile telephone system.
• What I want to do is to tell you about our successes and failures in introducing new working patterns.
• What I want to do is to show you how we've made our first successful steps in the potentially huge Chinese market.

State how you want to deal with questions.

• If you have any questions, I'll be happy to answer them as we go along.
• Feel free to ask any questions.
• Perhaps we can leave any questions you have until the end?
• There will be plenty of time for questions at the end.

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Of course, these are only suggestions and other language is possible. Even within this limited group of phrases, just choose a few you feel comfortable with and learn and use those.

Memperkenalkan diri.  

L1:  Selamat pagi semuanya.

English:  Good morning everyone. 

L1:  Hari ini saya akan berbicara tentang  Stress dan Pelajar  Internasional.

English:  Today I’m going to talk about Stress and the International Student. 

L1:  Presentasi saya akan berlangsung kira-kira 15 menit.

English:  My talk will last about fifteen minutes.

L1:  Pertama saya akan menjelaskan  metodologi kami.

English:  First I’ll take you through our methodology. 

L1:  Kemudian kita akan melihat hasil survey.

English:  Then we’ll look at the results of the survey.

L1:  Setelah itu saya akan menyampaikan kesimpulannya dan kemungkinan solusinya.

English:  Following that I’ll discuss my conclusion and possible solutions.

L1:  Dan kemudian saya akan menjawab pertanyaan.

English:  And then I’ll take questions.

 L1:  Memperkenalkan pembicara pertama.

 L1:  Dan sekarang waktu saya serahkan kepada John, yang akan membahas tentang metodologi.

English:  And now I’ll hand you over to John, who’ll discuss methodology.  

L1:  Kalian lihat dari slide pertama ini bahwa  kebanyakan  pelajar pernah merasa stress.

English:  You can see by this first slide that the majority of students feel some degree of stress.

L1:  Dan grafik ini menunjukkan penyebab utama  stress berkaitan dengan rasa kangen rumah.

English:  And this graph shows a major cause of stress is related to homesickness. 

L1:  Jadi kesimpulannya, pelajar yang menggunakan strategi ini dan mencari pertolongan, mendapati bahwa stress mereka mulai berkurang.

English:  So in conclusion, the students who use these strategies and seek help, find that their stress starts to pass.

Menjawab pertanyaan.

 L1:  Ada pertanyaan?

English:  Are there any questions? 

L1:  Apakah ini menjawab pertanyaanmu?

English:  Does that answer your question?

L1:  Dan sekian presentasi saya.

English:   And that concludes my presentation.

 L1:  Mengucapkan terima kasih kepada hadirin.

 L1:  Terima kasih, kalian sangat membantu.

English:  Thanks, you’ve been a great audience.

Sumber            : www.radioaustralia.net.au/indonesian

  

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How to achieve a professional opening to every presentation in 6 steps

These are the 6 steps to opening your presentation:

1. Greetings
2. Compliments
3. Name
4. Position
5. Purpose Statement
6. Signpost

Let’s look at each one:

1. Greeting

Good morning/afternoon/evening

2. Compliments

Thank you for coming today, it’s great to see you all here.

3. Name

My name is Liam Lusk, please call me Liam

4. Position

I am the project manager for the Acme building project.

5. Purpose Statement

Today we are going to look at the proposed building schedule for the Acme building project.

6. Signpost

First we will look at the proposed schedule, next we will look at ways of improving the schedule, finally you will hear three strategies we can consider.  We hope this will help you see the key points we need to keep in mind as we evaluate the benefits and risks of this project.

Now let’s put that altogether:

“Good morning, thank you for coming today, it’s great to see you all here. My name is Liam Lusk, please call me Liam.  I am the project manager for the Acme building project. Today we are going to look at the proposed building schedule for the Acme building project. First we will look at the proposed schedule, next we will look at ways of improving the schedule, finally you will hear three strategies we can consider. We hope this will help you see the key points we need to keep in mind as we evaluate the benefits and risks of this project.”

Make a habit of starting your presentations this way and you will sound great in every presentation you do.

Thanks

Liam

Clip 1

“Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much for coming along here today. I hope my presentation isn’t going to take too long and that you will find it interesting. The purpose of today’s presentation is to discuss how we can improve internal communications within our company.

Now let me begin by explaining that I’d like to talk about the business case for better communication; secondly, I want to cover different styles and methods; and finally I would like to finish off by talking about some of the basics we need to have in place to deliver good quality, consistent communications across the company. I’d be very happy to invite you to ask questions at the end of the session and I’m sure there’ll be plenty of time for us to discuss some of the points that have been raised.”

Clip 2

“Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for finding the time to come and join me for this presentation this afternoon. My name is Tim Mason, I‘m a retail consultant, and many of you will have seen me shadowing you in your jobs and looking through the accounts and so on in the company over the last week. I’ve invited you here today to have a look at my findings. First, I’d like to have a look at the performance of the company, the sales of the company over the last three years; then I’d like to have a look at our market share in the womenswear market and look at our competitors; and thirdly, I’d like to suggest some improvements in our range of womenswear. At the end I’d be happy to answer any of your questions.”