Oral Presentation

Procedures to Prepare for an Oral Presentation

Preparing for an oral presentation can be nerve racking and uncomfortable for persons not familiar with the steps needed to prepare for an effective presentation. The purpose of this document is to provide instructions to prepare an oral presentation. These step by step procedures will enable anyone too quickly and efficiently prepare for any oral presentation.

1. Determine the purpose of your presentation. By knowing your purpose, you will be able to prepare a targeted message for your particular audience. The purpose of the message may vary depending on the message you are trying to convey. For example, you would not prepare a presentation about kitchen knives, when the audience came to hear about vacuums. Knowing your purpose will be important if you are to effectively reach your audience.

2. Know you’re your audience. This step is important if you are to effectively reach your targeted audience. You will need to analyze how they think. Also, consider their age, values, gender, and education level. As a presenter you do not want to assume anything about your audience without effective research. For example, you would not want to talk about how social media affects their daily lives to a group of senior citizens who may not be computer literate.

3. Define your topic. With any topic there can be a vast array of information on the subject, many of which can be found on the internet. Narrow the topic down so that it can be easily under stood by your targeted audience.

4. Arrange the material. After researching you topic for your targeted audience, you will want to arrange the material is such a way that it will make sense to your audience. As the presenter you will need clear objectives on why the material is relevant to your audience and how the material affects them.

5. Compose the presentation. This means that a rough draft will need be to written of the information that you have organized to...