Hi, I'm Dr. Sangeeta Seaman upali. And I will show you how to make excellent PowerPoint presentations. And in doing so we have an impressive mark on the audience. Here's a brief outline of my presentation which is divided into four sections. In the first section, I will discuss the topic delivery and content. The second and third sections have to do with preparation, timing and confidence.

In the last section, I'll discuss some choices to be made, and examples of slides and include example talks. Let's focus on the first three aspects of the presentation. Commonly known as talk or seminar. Presentations start Choosing the topic of interest. This may be a deliberate choice of topic on which you have been working on for a few months, maybe like a scientific research topic, or it may be an advertisement. It may also be a clinical case study and informational data presentation or a survey data.

Whatever the case may be, each topic has its own reason for being interesting or important enough to be shared with others. Speaking of sharing, the person delivering the message is the one who chooses the topic are usually their boss. Nonetheless, that person needs to already have the skills for the presentation or he or she may need to develop those skills with practice and experience. Next is the audience. The topic has to interest the audience as discussed before So the topics the audience could be a scientific community, a marketing company or a software company. It could be medical students, epidemiologists, and so on and so forth.

Therefore, the topic has to be directed to those in the audience. Now, the goals of the presentation need to be kept in mind, I'll be proving something. are we selling a new product? Are we informing something new and exciting in data? Are we showing the solution to a big problem? Are we showing data attesting to the seriousness of the spread of a disease?

Having some questions as such in mind, causes us not to deviate from the main goal of the talk. The next aspect to be discussed is time. Based on the length of time allotted to you, you will need to arrange enough and essential information If more time is left then some details and examples can be added. The main thing is to practice for that allotted time and you can do so by setting up an alarm or using some of the resources within the PowerPoint software. Also never forget to provide the audience with the take home message. This is the message that they will be thinking and pondering upon long after the talk is over.

Showing the audience the big picture helps deliver that take home message. When it comes to delivering a presentation, make it a story. That's how all of my mentors have trained me during my presentations for a talk and that's how I was able to earn several awards have excellent presentations. at local, regional, and even national level scientific meetings. One key aspect of an excellent presentation is that you need to somehow connect the beginning and the end. And in doing so, you tie the knot so to speak.

That also helps with the take home message. Not only that, but you will need to connect from one slide to the next. You can do so by using statements of question or maybe the slides themselves. This is also the time when you can insert transitions and animations. These may actually bring some excitement to the talk. Especially they may remove any boredom that may exist during the talk.

Also insert any links to teachers Use if needed. You can connect with others by asking and answering questions at the time of question answer are even within the presentation itself. Finally, emphasize where emphasis is needed by the tone of your voice. In other words, please do not use a monotone voice that will cause the talk to be boring. If there is something exciting to share, then make it exciting. Interesting, then let it be sensed in the intonation of your voice.

When delivering a story in the form of a seminar, it is good to think of the introduction as the beginning of the story which describes the problem hand or the seriousness of the issue or the importance or urgency of the matter, or the current background knowledge of the subject among other aspects. One, let's start by saying why they chose that particular topic. The transmission of the story may have to do with why the project had to be done, what was needed for the work to be done, when was it done? How did it take place, and who has done it, among other aspects? that conclusion is a final take home message. Usually it is good to bring the audience back to the beginning to show how much of a change in understanding in interpretation or in significance, did your data make or contribute compared to the beginning of the story.

Finally, let us look at content When delivering the content one needs to be thorough not to deviate from the main subject. As teachers mentioned to students who write an essay on a topic do not wander from the topic. The main, this same main principle applies here with talks. This specific and not general be deliberate in the arrangement of your words and data. Usually it's best to place the data and wording side by side. We will look more about this later on in our talk.

Also, explain what is shown Do not assume that everyone knows what is being shown. Keep in mind that not everyone knows what you know. And even if they do, you need to give them enough information for that audience. do understand what you're talking about. So give them enough background data and explain any abbreviations, the first time you use, and so on and so forth. Finally, do not just read slides, realize that the audience can read it for themselves.

Now you may do so if you're a beginner in learning how to make presentations. But soon you will need to assimilate the data and talk more than what is written on the slide. Your slides are there to show data. And to give you an outline of what you need to talk about. You are there to show an interpretation of the data to show the significance of it and you're there to explain or to suggest what is happening at the very end of the talk based on the information that you have gathered. This concludes the first part of The talk