Advanced Presentation Skills Workshopby Jade Cemre Erciyes

Today• Get to know each other

• Talk about the focus

• Some key issues common in good presentations

• See examples

• Look through your slides and talk about how to improve them

Jade Cemre Erciyes• Ja-de is a family name, but you can call me Jade• I am a PhD student/researcher at Migration Studies• I suggested to give this presentation skills workshop because...

• I like teaching• I enjoy sharing experiences• I want to develop my own skills of teaching

• Also because...• Boring and tiring presentations in Social sciences• And no trainings specifically for SS

Please introduce yourself

And don’t forget to tell what you expect to get from this training...

And if you are going to present somewhere soon, please tell where and what...

Types of presentations

Focus of the workshop

•Being YOU as the presenter•Using PPT as a tool to present•Reaching the AUDIENCE with your presentation

Being YOU as the presenter• How you look

• Comfortable, neat and smart clothes• Hair not covering your eyes and face• If you can deliver your message with your look- do it!

• How you behave• Self-confident• Organized• Respectful

• How you present• Standing-up • Using your body gestures• Keeping eye contact and attention

What is common about these pictures?

Please discuss in a group the next 5 minutes:• How early to prepare for a presentation?• How many times should you practice?• Should you read or memorize or ...?• What makes you loose your interest in a

presentation because of the presenter?

Using PPT as a tool to present• Keep it simple but impressive

• Use visuals but not too much• Maps• Photos and Clip art• Graphics

• Use key words and phrases not sentences• Stick to the Rule of Three (3)!• You do not need to be an expert to be creative

• You can use bold or italic or underline to take the audience’s attention to certain keywords

• If there is something that you want to EMPHASIZE you can use capital letters

• Or...

Let’s see some good and bad examples:

But first let’s give a break for 10 minutes!

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Quotation from an interview in Adyghea, October 2011, in my first field visit. The respondent is a young Adyghe who return migrated with her family.C- Can you tell a bit more about your coming here? How did you leave your life there?D- We did that very simply, we sold all we had. We had a car that my father had bought with his retirement gratuity. Father sold that to use the money for travel expenses. We loaded all our furniture to a lorry. Mother had a sewing workshop. We loaded all the sewing machines as well. We said goodbye to all people we knew. They all came to the bus station see us off. We took the boat and came here. There wasn’t much that was thought over, inquired or discussed. We took a simple decision to come and we came. Nothing before or after. We didn’t have long discussions on it. My father was a very bold person. I now think it over. The Russia of twenty years ago, Soviet Union had just collapsed. There were bread queues. Shops were empty. Coming to such a country from Ankara, together with his children and his old mother, without a job, without any perspective is something that takes courage. Thinking it over now, I tell my father as well, I tell him that he was very bold. I ask myself can I take my children and go to a country that I don’t know anything about? I don’t think so. One has to have a strong ideological background in order to take such a step. My father never complained, never said anything when faced with problems... On the other hand, all those who settled here those years were like that. Not only my father, his friends, all those who settled here right after the collapse of the Soviet Union, in years 90-91-92-93-94 when the doors opened. In my eyes those are the true returnees. Whether alone or with their families, those are the real returnees. Coming to Maykop in 2011 is not something that demands a lot of courage, it is not a great bravery for me, not something for which one gives up a lot, sacrifices things. What was important was to manage to come then. To show that courage. To start everyhting from scratch. To go nearly 50 years back to where you came from, to start over. It required a lot of courage. Those people are the strongest stones of return. There has not been many among those who returned back. It is those people who came then, that are still struggling, who succeded in somethings, dealing with something (T.N.: has a job), grew their children like locals, managed to teach their children the langauges (T.N.: Russian and Adyghe). Those who came young, single, or with their families. There are many types of people, you know most of them yourself. In my eyes, the real returnees are them, it is not a big problem to return to Maykop in 2011.

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Following messages arise from early returnees narratives

•There wasn’t much that was thought over, inquired or discussed- it was an act of courage

•Returnees had strong ideological background

•They grew their children like locals: “It is those people who came then, that are still struggling, who succeded in somethings… grew their children like locals, managed to teach their children the langauges.” (Interview with a returnee, Adyghea, 2011)

Early returnees narratives:Courage• There wasn’t much that was thought over, inquired or

discussed. We took a simple decision to come and we came. Nothing before or after. We didn’t have long discussions on it. My father was a very bold person. ... without a job, without any perspective is something that takes courage.

Strong ideological background

• One has to have a strong ideological background in order to take such a step. My father never complained, never said anything when faced with problems... On the other hand, all those who settled here those years were like that. Not only my father, his friends, all those who settled here right after the collapse of the Soviet Union, in years 90-91-92-93-94 when the doors opened. In my eyes those are the true returnees

Adaptation of the new generation

• It is those people who came then, that are still struggling, who succeded in somethings, dealing with something, have jobs, grew their children like locals, managed to teach their children the langauges (T.N.: Russian and Adyghe). Those who came young, single, or with their families.

Exile and Return

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Remembering the Circassian Exile and the ideal of Return

Reaching the AUDIENCE with your presentation

• Know your audience• Who are you presenting to?• Do they know the subject?• Do they know the area?

• Keep your interest in the audience during the presentation• Paraphrase or give other examples when you see they are lost• If they start sleeping, change your voice to take their attention• If suitable audience, include them in the talk by asking them

questions• Get comments and questions

• Help understand your mistakes• Helps to clarify issues for the audience

What can go wrong?

• Health and personal issues• Organizational issues• Audience problems

• Technical problems • Forgetting what you want to say• You don’t know the answer to a

question

To sum up• Plan,

prepare, practice,

develop, practice again

• Know your self,know your topic,

know your audience, know your environment

To conclude, don’t forget:

• All of these or non of these may work for you!• Find yourself in your presentation!• If you are:

• Interested• Knowledgeable, and • PRESENT it in the right way

• they will also be • interested, • learn from you and • get your message!

Discuss in groups:• What did you realize during my presentation?

• How did I start?• How did I get to know my audience?• How did I use my voice and body language?• How did I use the examples?• How did I use the technology?• How much time do you think I spent for the

preparation of the context?• How much time do you think I spent for the

preperation of the PPT?• How did I conclude?

Now let’s look through your examples and talk about how they can be improved

Thank you

If you have any questions:C.Erciyes@sussex.ac.uk