...Bus 327 Presentation Project This time of the year, many company leaders are focused on long-range planning. This initiative looks at a planning cycle of 18-36 months and includes a clear expectation of where the company needs to be and where they are now. Objective: You have determined that over the next 12-15 months, a reduction in expenses will be required to effectively manage your household. Step 1. Evaluate the current financial position of your household budget and develop a strategy that reduces the expenses by 8-10%. Use the Family Budget Template to complete this exercise. Be realistic with the projections of both income and cost for the year. This template will cover the 2014 year. Only fill in those areas where you can show either money in or money out. Some areas may not pertain to your situation. (NOTE: You do not need to share the specific information in this template if you are not comfortable doing so). Step 2. Convince the family members (even if it is just you) to embrace this strategy and support the reductions suggested. You will do this by developing a persuasive PowerPoint presentation that includes the following components for discussion: * Family mission * Overview of the financial position for the household * Suggested areas for cost reduction and suggested strategies for these reductions * Compelling discussion as to why this needs to happen * Responsibilities/accountabilities assigned for completion of the objective * Any...
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...CHAPTER I Introduction Background of the Study This study investigates whether PowerPoint presentations improve student’s learning and attitudes compared with traditional classroom presentations. While the use of PowerPoint and multimedia in the classroom has significantly increased globally in recent years (Connor and Wong, 2004; Bartsch and Cobern, 2003), few studies have systematically investigated its impact on student learning and attitudes. Rebele et al. (1998) note that little research exists regarding integration of technology in the accounting curriculum, and suggest that accounting researchers should examine whether technology improves learning. One study that has examined the relationship between multimedia and student learning and attitudes was conducted by Butler and Mautz (1996). In a laboratory experiment conducted during a 30-minute time period, they found that multimedia did not affect student recall in all situations. Butler and Mautz did find an interaction between the effects of the multimedia presentation and the student’s preferred class representation style (i.e., whether the student was considered a “verbal” or “imaginal” learner). To improve the quality of learning in our schools using multimedia is very effective in the teaching learning situation. It benefits the students to grasp information easily, to understand as much information as possible, to retain information longer and to gain knowledge that is observable and measured. Literally, multimedia...
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...creates an effective presentation and what skills are needed. It is also important to understand that effective presentation skills are not solely for the fortunate few who are naturally good communicators but that effective presentation skills can be developed in anyone and that we all have the ability to learn how to become highly effective presenters. In this article we’ll be looking at some techniques to help you achieve more from your presentations. Key Objectives of Effective Presentation Skills The key objectives that underline a good presentation often include the following: * To establish credibility with your audience * To communicate information clearly to your audience * To persuade and/or influence your audience To achieve these objectives, there are a range of practical skills that you can develop to help you become an effective presenter. We can categorise these skills into three main areas: * The ability to create a clear message * The ability to deliver your message effectively * The ability to fully engage with your audience. An effective presentation should cover all of these three areas, so let’s see how you can achieve this. Presentation Skill #1 – Create a clear effective message A clear message is normally a simple one. You may feel that you have to go into a lot of detail to get your message across but more often than not – “less is more”. Your audience are only able to take in so much during a presentation, so the clearer the...
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...IMT-N-I-BC1-2014 Business Communication I Session 3 July 1st -2nd, 2014 Chapter 13, Designing & Delivering Business Presentations, BCOM, Lehman-Dufrene-Sinha, Cengage, 2011, pp 302-331 Learning Objectives Business Presentations Good Presentations? Coping with Stage Fright Planning a Presentation- Control on Content Visual Aids Speech Delivery Good Presentations Contents match the audience Level of complexity/ details fit the audience profile Language matches the audience Simple language, concrete ideas/ graphic structure Brevity Lesser the time consumed, better it is Smooth sequence Well structured & logically arranged sequence Signs of preparation & Mastery Relevant data, Illustrations, graphics, a/v- collected & used Preparedness = Mastery Lively speech Passionate voice, modulations, gestures, eye contact Conviction of the presenter indicative in convincing voice Coping with Stage Fright Glossophobia- Fear of Public Speaking Coping Strategies Mirror Talking Imaginary Audience Real Audience & Feedback Reading sessions- Variations as in Drama Preparing well- thrice of required Planning a Presentation Who? Who your audience are? Assess the audience profile Who are you to them? Why? Why are you making this presentation? Image building, prospecting, advocating, educating Why are they here? Key deliverables Where? Where are you...
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...Group members must be enrolled in the same discussion section. Requirements: • Maximum of four students per group. • Maximum of five minutes allowed to complete the presentation. • Each member of the group must speak an equal amount of time. • Each group must use a visual aid to illustrate talk, such as o Presentation software (Power Point, Keynote, Prezi.com) o Props o Posters, flip chart o Skit • If your presentation visual aid is a digital file, it must be uploaded to the Turnitin.com drop box called In-class Presentation. Failure to upload the file will result in a zero (0) on the assignment for all group members. • Business dress is required for all presenters – slacks and dress shirt for the men, and pants suit or skirt with a blouse for the women Remember: Everyone in the class has already read the material, so there is no need to cover everything in your assigned pages. Instead, pull out and emphasize only the main points. Feel free to do outside research to make your talk more interesting. As a team, think through your presentation with the goal of being creative, engaging and spellbinding. Tips: • Use all of the material in Chapter 12 on making presentations. • For presentation slides: practice 6 x 6 rule o No more than 6 words per bullet o No more than 6 bullets per slide • Presenting: o Practice using gestures ...
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...FOR YOUR NEXT PRESENTATION 10 TIPS BY BRENT MANKE So you’re getting ready for your next presentation! Awesome! I hope you’re excited to get up there and share your talk. Whenever you have the chance to give a presentation, you have a unique opportunity to connect with and win your audience over. Whether you’re a rookie presenter or a seasoned veteran, it’s always a great idea to think about how to improve your skills to make a bigger impact on your audience. I’d like to share a few insights that have helped me as I’ve learned the art of the presentation. I hope these will help you become a more effective presenter and make a bigger impact on your audience. Thanks for bringing me along for the ride. LET’S BEgIN! one TURN YOUR COMPUTER OFF What’s the first thing you do when you start preparing for a presentation? For many of us, the first thing we do is open up PowerPoint, Keynote, or Prezi and start assembling our imagery. While these programs can be helpful in laying out and organizing our content, they’re not good place to start. The first thing to do is define the message we want to communicate. The problem with using visuals as our starting point is that when start with the how of our presentation we lack the clarity of thought to remember the what that we’re communicating. Our tunnel vision will lead us astray later down the road. By looking at your talk objectively you can determine the best course to take before getting into the details of delivering...
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...Professional Communication Oral Presentation Assignment—Persuasive Presentation Note: To complete this assignment, you will need a microphone for your computer. If you don’t have one, you may need to purchase one. You should be able to get a fairly inexpensive one at an electronics store. Background Former Chrysler CEO Lee Iacocca said, "You can have exceptional ideas, but if you can't communicate them, it's as if you have no ideas at all." So far we have been focusing on written communication, but oral communication is just as important in many work situations. Both informative and persuasive presentations are very important in the workplace, but the presentation that you will do in this course is a persuasive presentation. That is, you will imagine a particular audience and a particular workplace situation in which you would need to convince that audience to take a particular action. Assignment You will imagine a particular audience and a particular workplace situation in which you would need to convince that audience to take a particular action. Choose one of the topics listed below, and then develop and deliver a persuasive presentation that is about 8–10 minutes long using a PowerPoint presentation. Imagine a situation in which you would need to persuade a particular workplace audience to take a particular position or action in relation to this topic. For example, if you choose affirmative action, your presentation would not simply explain what...
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...|[pic] |Teacher Rubric: Oral presentations | ▪ This is a sample rubric for teachers to assess students’ oral presentations. The criteria are based on the standards for LOTE and Communication. ▪ This rubric is designed to be integrated into a scoring sheet. A complete grading sheet typically has a scoring system attached to performance descriptors, and space for comments. ▪ The criteria, performance levels and performance descriptors are suggestions only and can be altered to suit specific requirements. |Criteria |Below expected level |At expected level |Above expected level | |Introduction of topic |Topic introduced. |Topic introduced clearly, and purpose of talk was made |Topic introduced clearly and in an interesting way. | | | |clear. |Purpose of talk was made clear. Outline of points was | | | | |given....
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...English for Presentations & Public Speaking Useful phrases, vocabulary and tips January 15, 2008 Authored by: Geoffrey Smih Contents PREPARATION ............................................................................................................. 3 OBJECTIVE ................................................................................................................... 3 AUDIENCE .................................................................................................................... 3 VENUE ......................................................................................................................... 3 TIME AND LENGTH ........................................................................................................ 3 METHOD ...................................................................................................................... 3 CONTENT ..................................................................................................................... 4 STRUCTURE ..................................................................................................................... 5 1 INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................................... 5 2 BODY OF PRESENTATION ............................................................................................ 5 3 CONCLUSION .......................................................................................
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...Professional Presentation Contents Page • Be able to plan a professional presentation o Aims and objectives of the presentation are identified o The intended audience for the presentation is identified and their level of understanding of the presentation topic is assessed o Information of the presentation topic of researched, evaluated and selected o The content and structure of the presentation is planned o Visual aids and other materials required for the presentation are prepared o The location and any equipment for the presentation is prepared • Be able to deliver a professional presentation o Your Subject matter is presented at an appropriate level of understanding for the audience and is supported by facts o Question from the audience are responded to appropriately • Be able to evaluate own ability to make a professional presentations o Feedback from the audience is used to evaluate own ability to plan and structure a professional presentation o Feedback from the audience is used to evaluate own ability to deliver a professional presentation o Improvements to own professional presentations are implemented • Be able to plan a professional presentation Firstly I choose a subject that I found of some interest, once I was happy with my choice I then was able to identify the aims and objectives of my presentation. The topic I choose was Organisational Structures. The aims and objectives were to deliver a professional presentation on Organisations...
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...Oral Presentation Plan and deliver a 7-10 minute presentation to the class in which you share something interesting (to other business majors) that you learned from researching your trend, problem, or opportunity. You might well define the trend you analyzed or explain a key term or concept that is a major topic of your report. On the other hand, your presentation topic might be only marginally related to the subject of your research report. For example, you might have researched the use and limitations of social media in customer service and could give your report on that topic. But if your scenario had you working for a non-profit or for a state agency, you might want to give your report on the benefits of working for a non profit or for the State of Texas. Avoid simply restating your report findings and recommendations as if you were presenting these to the executive audience of your report scenario. Look for a topic that you enjoyed learning about, and make it interesting to the class. Consider the following elements of the rhetorical situation: * Purpose: Your purpose in this assignment could be informative or persuasive. Teach us something. * Audience: Your audience includes all of us—students and instructor—in this section of Business Communications. Though we are of various ages, we share a keen interest in business, business education, and the role of business in society. * Stance: Your role is that of and inquirer and fellow student. Project...
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...Effects of PowerPoint Presentations on Students’ Learning Project Report By: Dinesh Kumar Veloo K Parvathy Sourav Dhal Table of Contents Acknowledgement ……………………………………………………………………………….…. 2 Executive Summary ………………………………………………………………………………… 3 Purpose and Scope ………………………………………………………………………...………... 4 Introduction …………………………………………………………………………………………. 5 Literature Review …………………………………………………………………………..……….. 6 Methodology ………………………………………………………………………………………... 7 Data Analysis & Findings …………………………………………………………………………… 8 Conclusion ……………………………………………………………………………....…….……. 9 Recommendations/s (if any) …………………………………………………….............………… 10 Limitations …………………………………………………………………………........………… 11 Appendix ……………………………………………………………………………….…..……… 12 References …………………………………………………………………...……………..……… 16 Acknowledgement We would like to thank Dr. Deepa Sethi, Assistant Professor for providing us with the opportunity to work on this project. Her support and guidance at every stage was highly instrumental in our progress. We would also like to thank Ms.Shindya, Teaching Assistant for scheduling meetings with Prof. Deepa The resources available from our library were extremely useful for our literature study. Most importantly, we thank the students for their time and co-operation in filling our survey Executive Summary The effectiveness of PowerPoint as a teaching aid was observed since its introduction in 1997. In the initial years, the response from the...
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...10 tips for effective financial presentations Help Assistance > PowerPoint 2003 > Work Essentials with PowerPoint > Finance | | |[pic]Show All | | |[pic]Hide All | | |When you present financial information to team members, investors, or other parties, it's essential that you not only | | |communicate the basic information, but that you help the audience analyze and actually understand it. To do this, you can | | |create a Microsoft Office PowerPoint® presentation to help make your points in a way that would be impossible with just a | | |verbal presentation and handouts. | | |The PowerPoint paradox | | |PowerPoint is a powerful tool with almost limitless design and production possibilities— and therein lies the danger. With so | | |much to choose from in PowerPoint, it's possible to overwhelm your content with your dazzling presentation. And it's so easy to| | |create slides, that you can quickly make more than you'll ever have time to show. | | |It's all about the story ...
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...Online Training Using PowerPoint Presentation allows for ongoing and lifelong learning The program also allows for real world application of learning, emphasizing everyday information Needs, Issues, and Problems Prompting Approach Needs for higher education to provide an interactive approach to learning Needs for learning to be based on real life examples and needs Needs for learning approaches to be ongoing, lifelong, and fit into busy work schedules Problems with some learning programs being limited to the presentation of material with no interaction, the use of web-enhanced courses with a hybrid of face-to-face and online, and use of web-centric interactive courses at one course site only Needs for learners to form communities of practice learning Needs to improve schools and raise academic standards Needs to go beyond traditional approaches in which conversation consists of teacher instruction Needs to focus on more than individual learning and performance Strengths and Weaknesses of Approach Strengths include Talk 2 Learn provisions of online tools to include the following: Article: allows member to make written statements with pictures Conversation: community members talk Debate: Members comment on positions File: resources and shared documents List: hyperlinked lists to web pages external to Talk 2 Learn Page: create new pages to publish items Strength: Talk 2 Learn Integration Potential Strengths also include...
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...Background The presentation contains a set of information that will be delivered by the presenter to the audience. Information should be presented clearly address and details, so that the audience can receive the message properly, and not wrong perception of what is conveyed by the presenter. However, the submission must also be the shortest possible time to avoid possible saturation on the audience Presentation containing the information must contain data and evidence collated logically, so as to reassure the hearts of listeners. Presentations were unclear and illogical data and evidence will reduce the confidence of listeners, even the audience did not feel confident with the message / information presenter convey. A good presentation is a presentation that is useful for listeners. Presentations should be instructive and inspiring, making listeners feel enlightened after hearing the message or information submitted by the presenter. In delivering session message or information to an audience usually the atmosphere will seem quiet, serious and silent. For that, there is no harm if a presenter can break the silence. Presenters are required to be delivered anecdotes refreshing the listener's mind when the listeners are getting bored. And no doubt, presenter authoritative and straightforward in communicating a message but smart in terms of entertaining listeners preferred audience, rather than presenter who bring always serious that makes the listener feel tired and...
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