How to improve your Presentation Skills?

According to experts in the field of communication training, presentation skills includes not only, aspects relating to non-verbal skills, etiquette and grooming, but also other factors such as listening and speaking.


In order to ensure effective communication and presentation skills one needs to keep the following factors in mind:

In order to ensure effective communication and presentation skills one needs to keep the following factors in mind:

Avoid ambiguity
Accept feedback in order to gain confirmation and rule out confusion

The non-verbal presentation factors are:

Voice: This implies the tone – sarcastic or sincere; warm or cold; rich and expressive; or dull and flat. The other voice aspect is the volume – shouting, barely audible or medium volume.

Speech pattern: slow, hesitant, fast, jerky, abrupt or even-steady pace.

Facial expression: This includes:
The brow/forehead: Wrinkled or smooth
Eyebrows: wrinkled or smooth
Jaw/mouth region: firm or relaxed

Eye contact: Whether the speaker is looking at the listener/audience being addressed.

Gestures: This includes the hand movements such as: hand-wringing, open hand movements, finger pointing, fist thumping, etc.

Postures: This is important, as it shows how interested the speaker or listener is.

Body movement: This includes the movement of the body such as shrugs and shuffles, arms crossed or left lose, strides or standing in one position.


Tips to Improve Your Conversational Skills

1.Choose an article or short story to read with a friend or classmate. Discuss the article together.

2.Choose an article or short story to read with a friend or classmate. Each person should write down five questions about the article and his / her partner.

3.Read a few articles to develop a debate. Hold the debate in class making arguments based on what you have read.

4.Read a short play with a few friends. Continue the conversation by each taking a character from the play and having a discussion about something that happened in the play.

5.Read dialogues. Once you've practiced the written texts, improvise a continued conversation using the same characters as in the dialogue.

6.Read short biographies. Pair up with a friend or classmate and take on the roles of interviewer and famous person.