This document provides tips for improving oral presentation skills in IT. It emphasizes maintaining the audience's interest through varying vocal tone, maintaining eye contact, and moving around. Presenters should rehearse, stay on time, and use an appropriate format. Body language, including appearance, eye contact, gestures, and movements, is as important as the words spoken. The tone, pitch, rate, and articulation of one's voice also impact engagement.

1. PRESENTATION SKILLS IN
I.T.
Lecture 2Lecture 2

2. Hints for Oral Presentation
General Points
 Keep on time!
 Rehearse your presentation
 Most appropriate format for your
presentation

3. MAINTAINING INTEREST
 Avoid simply reading out
 Eight minute attention span
 Vary the tone of your voice
 Avoid speaking to quickly
 Maintain eye contact with people in all parts of the room
 Smile
 Be mobile; stationary
 Avoid doing things that distract the audience

4. HINTS TO START WITH YOUR AUDIENCE
WORDS you are saying
VOICE on how are you saying things
BODY LANGUAGE on how you appear
WORDS
VOICE
BODY LANGUAGE

5. PHYSICAL
APPEARANCE
Dress neatly and tidily
Carry yourself in a confident and
professional manner

6. EYE CONTACT
This will:
Keep them alert
Make them feel they are directly spoken to
Make them feel part of your class
Give the confidence in you as the instructor

7. EYE CONTACT
 Do not:
Stare
Move your eyes from side to side
Look out the window or at the clock
Look only at the training aids or chalkboards
Look at your feet or at the ceiling

8. BODY MOVEMENTS
 Be natural
 Do not:
 Stand rigid
 March
 Slouch
 Do:
 Move forward for emphasis
 Relax when talking from behind a desk
 Slowly and on occasion move from side to side

9. GESTURES
 Use meaningful and appropriate gestures
 Do not use:
Pointer
Pen
Pencil
Chalk

10. VOICE
Volume
Pitch
Rate
Articulatiom

11. LANGUAGE
Avoid “pet expressions”
HUMOUR
Use humour but appropriately

12. HOW YOU SAY THINGS IS CRITICAL
 MAN AT LECTERN
 NOTES ON FLOOR
 SPEAKER SIGNALS