Developing Effective Presentation Skills for the Workplace

This report delves into the crucial role of presentation skills in the professional environment. It highlights the different types of presentations, including general communication, business presentations, and public communication, emphasizing their significance in conveying ideas and information effectively. The report discusses the key components of presentation skills, such as structure, design, and techniques for influencing, motivating, and persuading audiences. It also explores the importance of time management, audience interaction, and visual aids. Furthermore, the report uses a real-world scenario to illustrate the impact of strong presentation skills, emphasizing the consequences of lacking these skills, such as glossophobia and limitations in career advancement. The report concludes by advocating for the compulsory integration of presentation skills training in education and professional development programs to equip individuals with the necessary skills for success in the competitive workplace.

Presentation is the art of communicating something to the audience about a specific topic.
Each presentation is known as communication. There are three types of presentation used in the
workplace. The three types are:
1. General Communication,
2. Business Presentations, and
3. Public communication.
Presentation skills in the workplace mean how we present our services and product to our
customers offline and online using the videos, website, the shop counter, and social media
(Sodano, 2011). If an employee practice presentation skills more and more, he/she become
confident about the next move, and it helps to remove the anxiety of speaking to anyone. Also,
an effective presentation is an essential part of communication. Using a persuasive presentation,
employees can share their ideas, plan, projects, strategies, etc., with their superior. To stay one
step ahead in the workplace, presentation skill topics need to be made compulsory in our studies
and professional life (R. A, 2009).
The below information is directly related to the presentation skills-
1. The key information of presentation skills consists of the structure of the presentation.
The design of the presentation depends on five factors.
2. To influence, motivate and persuade people- All about presenting techniques.
3. To make time-critical factors easier- It helps a presenter to learn about managing time
value.

4. To interact with the target group more productively- It will help a presenter read others'
minds.
5. To show things more confidently and thoughtfully- It helps a presenter to emphasize in a
particular area.
6. Make a visual slide properly- It focuses on obeying some rules while making the slide of
a presentation.
Besides that information, there also some relateable story exists for presentation skills. Topic
selection and using posture, gesture, para-tone is also a technique to attract the audience.
Giving an efficient presentation package implies the differentiator, which provides the
employee's competing edge in the workplace. High impression presentations are always well
recognized. This memorandum tries to diminish the nerves and stress encircling during a
presentation. The purpose is to give participants a structured methodology to develop and
provide an efficient, high impression presentation that pushes the use and objectives of results.
Proper guidelines for making presentations and rehearsal sessions will signify given feedback to
co-participants also the Program Trainer (Lingard, 2001). Ice-breaking is one of the best
practices of the use of presentation skills. It's essential to capture the audience's attention while
delivering crucial information. It can be practiced by doing small breathing exercises or telling a
short story relevant to the topic.
I have seen the importance of presentation skills from my experience as well as
secondary research. I was called in to speak to the Director of Human Resources management
regarding the engineer's capacity to deliver their monthly reports effectively (Sendall, 2012). The
President rushed in from the USA each period for a conference where all these division heads

presented presentations about their exercises and outputs. The engineers moved technically
excellent and understood their responsibilities but were poor at presentation. They usually had
numerous information covering their slides, and they read from watching slides (Tsang, 2020).
Some of them were very nervous also; some of the others were unfocused and were in a different
direction. The President similarly thought the meeting format was weak and proposed the
Director of Human Resources management to prepare for the engineers' training.
Suppose students don't learn about presentation skills during school or graduation time
they have to face a lot of problems in their workplace. They will have Glossophobia, which
means fear of public speaking. In the US, 95% of people are affected by Glossophobia. If an
employee cannot express his/her work output or strategies in front of their superior, they will be
unable to meet their future goals. It is one of the primary reasons for getting a rejection from the
workplace. If somehow any employee survives in an organization without presentation skills, it
will not be possible for him to get a promotion. As an individual perception of mine, I can say
that to survive in the competitive digital workplace, presentation skills need to make compulsory
learning during school or graduation or professional life.
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