Lecture Guidelines

Lecture Guidelines

It is a quick and simple way to present knowledge to large groups of trainees. here are some guidelines for presenting a lecture.

• Don’t start out on the wrong foot.
• Give your listeners signals. For instance, if you have a list of items, start by saying something like, “There are four reasons why the sales reports are necessary…The first…”
• Be alert to your audience.
• Maintain eye contact with the audience during your presentation.
• Make sure everyone in the room can hear.
• Control your hands. Get in the habit of leaving them hanging naturally at your sides.
• Talk from notes rather than from a script.
• Break along talk into a series of five-minute talks. Experts suggest breaking the long talk into a series of five-minute talks, each with its own introduction. Write more, briefer, PowerPoint slides, and spend about a minute on each. Each introduction highlights what you’ll discuss, why it’s important to the audience, and your credibility–why they should listen to you.
• Practice.