Making an Effective Oral Presentation (3)

5.2 DURING THE PRESENTATION

Relax, Enjoy and Calm

Presenter tries to find ways to make the contact and delivery enjoyable with imagination and humor. Humor can bring an enjoyable presentation but not too much and definitely under control. Humor can be injected with many ways example audience participants, with a prop, picture or cartoon or a short story maybe according an experience of presenter. Smile can show the confidence of presenter. The audience are look at the presenter with a full of confidence to show the point and comfortable also the ability in handling the situation during the presentation. Sometimes, audience gives a responds or questions or opinions about the topic. Answer it with calm and smile. If you don’t know the answer, postponed it or deal with him later. Presenter appearance is important. Why? It’s also showing a respect from the audience when the speaker present with a full of knowledge, experiences and come with a perfectly preparation about the topic. The dress must be comfortable and suitable with the day and the topic. For example when we’re present in Thursday, dress can be “Batik” or dressing “Baju Melayu” in Friday.

Breathing

Refer to Boston University (Oral Presentation Technics, 1998) breathing during the presentation is different from normal breathing. Breathing deeper is for volume of voice, control a voice and nerves and emphasis about the things of point will be delivered. Feel nervours when starting and during the presentation are normal. Take a deep breath can reduce it and makes you more relax.

Body Language

Body language is important factor that presentation could be good and enjoy. It can be concrete and understand more delivered about the topic. Body movements express at your attitudes and thoughts really are (School of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Material, Newcastle University, 2006). Use body language movement and position well to attracted the audience attention. Audience can feel boring and not more interested hearing the presentation when the presenter that only stands and not moving sometimes. Please don’t stand in front of screen when the projector is on. It can make deep effects because troubling the audience view to see the interesting slides with examples. Walk purposely and confident to the front of audience. Then, avoid movement too much. Sometimes, too much movement being troubles the focus audience and it can make audience rasa uncomfortable and tired. Posture and facial expression also can show an interest idea. Presenter must maintain the eye contact with group of people. Not only focusing one person. It may unnecessary by other audience during presentation. Avoid annoying habits of presenter like talking with hands in pockets. It’s make low of confident for presenter by audience. Speakers should be careful not to add extraneous words or sounds—such as "um, " "you know, " or "okay"—between words or sentences in a presentation (http://www.answers.com/topic/oral-communication).

Voice

Voice is important element in speech. Presenter must speak loudly but don’t shout. Shouting making audience stress and not comfortable. As the speaker you don’t be rush or too slow. Use voice by changing volume, pitching and using pauses to indicate to a new point or emphasing the key note. Grant-Williams (2000) wrote that five main terms for using voice. Is volume, tone, pitch, pace and colour. Volume is how loud the sound is. Audience to be heard without shouting. Tone is about characteristics of a sound. It’s like voice carries laughter can get the audience smile. Pitch is how high or low a note is. This is how long a sound lasts. Talking too fast causes the words and syllables to be short, while talking slowly lengthens them. Varying the pace helps to maintain the audience's interest. (Donald clark-http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/leader/leadpres.html – 1998).Deliberately pause at key points - this has the effect of emphasising the importance of a particular point you are making. Pitch your presentation towards the back of the audience, especially in larger rooms (http://lorien.ncl.ac.uk). Pauses can available when the audience gives respond with claps, laugher or others. Speak with the simple language or words to keep safe a pronunciation and intonation. Intonation show what the important or give the expression about the point or examples.

To Audience

When start the presentation, speaker must greet the audience and look them with confidence. Presenter can pay for the audience focus and attention before start the presentation. After the audience ready, introduce yourself and start the topic clearly. Tell what about the topic and why the topic is so important. Monash University, Australia (www.monash.edu.au) reported presenter can establish contact with the audience. It could be talk with them before presentation. It knows early information about the audience and also makes comfortable the speaker and some of audiences. More things are respect the audience. Look the audience much as possible. Face them while speak and not to turn body away from the audience. At the end of presentation, summarize in conclusion part. Suggest and allow the question could be taken in relation with the topic.