The common problem of a Presentation

Tracing back when was your first presentation, maybe is from our early school period. When we asked to deliver our reading project, or even asked to pick a book to read it out. It mays leads your hand sweaty, nervousness, and uncomfortable of your stomach.

Making a presentation is a way of communicating your thoughts and ideas to an audience. Some barriers may being an obstacle for us to communicate with our audience completely.

We can divide those communication barriers to three parts, psychological Barriers, Semantic Barriers and physical barriers.

Psychological Barriers including emotional, perceptual and selectivity

Emotional, without well management about stress will let presenter feel worries and stressful, they may be thoughtful by personal issues and not as concern on to the presentation topic as if they were not stressed. Also may preform not respectively to audience, like interrupt people saying or while asking question.Low self-esteem may be less positive and therefore may feel uncomfortable about communicating, shy about saying how they really feel or they may turn the message they receive as a negative sub-texts.

Perceptual, there are surely people will have differences in viewpoint and perception. Many information may be gathered or suggestion from other people, that may lead the presenter confusion and worry her content cannot predominate the presentation.

Selectivity, selective messages by own view may generate as time pressure, or too much information come with the topic, that leads the presenter select those information by he/she own view.

Semantic Barriers

Semantic Barriers are the difficulties in communication arise because the same word or symbol means different things to different individuals.

Even if you are skilled enough to avoid problems, you may still run into semantic problems because of the different shades of meaning between words.

Connotation

People getting different an idea of a word's definition based on their own experience called a connotation. When they don't share a word's connotation, making the presentation not effectiveness. For example, inexpensive and cheap. Cheap has a more negative connotation. Career of the audience also possible occurs connotations of these words. The word ‘pig’ to a ‘farmer’ and a ‘police officer’, the word ‘bear’ to a ‘stockbroker’ and a ‘camper’. People perceiving not the same meaning in same word.

Jargon or Slang

Professionals often use industry jargon to communicate, Over-complicated, unfamiliar and/or technical terms, it cannot be understood outside the industry. Language differences and the difficulty in understanding unfamiliar accents, terms that teens and elderly using is difference.

Fluency

Using not native language is not the same as yours may present barriers in the form of inappropriate or incorrect word choice.

High- or Low-Level Vocabulary

Even when people share a native language, vocabulary differences can be vast. Someone with a large vocabulary may choose to say, "He is certainly loquacious" rather than "He talks a lot."

Physical barriers

Communication does not consist of words alone. No matter how good your presentation is, it may be imparted by a mercy of various potential physical barriers, those are environmental and physical limitations; writing.

Environment such as room setting (location), lighting, and temperature of the room or the facility that provided. Room setting, noises may occur inside the room itself. Such as hissing ventilation, blowing air conditioning. Finally your message may be blocked because the people in your audience are uncomfortable. Room temperature not stable may let the audience feel too warm or too cold or they lack comfortable seating.

Writing, a jammed and jagged margins, fingerprints or smudges, a faulty typewriter ribbon, unclear photocopies, may destroy your imagine given to audience, no matter how well you did in the writing.

Looking up above, well prepare the presentation and knowing who is or where they from can effectiveness helping to avoid those problem occurs when presentation.

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