Your criteria for a good presentation

We started off today by defining what you felt were aspects of a good presentation. You came up with the following - it would be hard to improve on your criteria:

• Be prepared
• Relevant
• Open body language
• Don’t fidget
• Keep it interesting
• Don’t rush it
• Concise
• Clear intonation
• Good voice projection
• Accurate information – good knowledge of topic
• Good eye contact
• Appear confident
• Don’t faint
• Know your audience
• Appropriate humour
• Appropriate language or vocabulary
• Appropriate use of tools
• Appropriate visual aids
• Be careful about repetition
• Appropriate dress
• Rehearse timings
• Pace of speaking
• Appearance of calm – the importance of breathing
• The importance of smiling – warmth

We also looked at a DVD which showed five interviewees contesting for a place with a prestigious advertising agency.

What was interesting was how much the interviewers focused on style, rather than content, when it came to evaluating performance in presentations.

We finished off by me giving out the brief for a practice presentation which will take place on the 26 Feb. You'll get a chance to work on that next week.