MB 145
Presentation Guidelines
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Format:
Presentations are 20 minutes long.
Participation by all group members in the presentation.
Presentations have a beginning, middle, and an end.
An outline of the presentation is displayed during the introduction to the presentation.
Audience understands the major points and sees the perspective you are taking.
Visual aids are used to reinforce major points.
Presentations are focussed: not every possible perspective is taken on a problem, only the information necessary to make the point is presented.
A good opening and summing up.
Ends decisively, don’t just trail off or end abruptly.
Logical, smooth transitions between speakers.
Speakers don't contradict each other. (Iron out differences before the presentation.)
Visual Aids:
All printed material (charts, blackboard, overheads) readable in the back row.
Professional looking.
Visual aids used whenever audience needs to understand something.
Tip: Make visual aids of timelines of events, diagrams that illustrate points, and main points you are making in your presentation.
Speakers:
Speak clearly and loud enough.
Fluent (speech memorized or smooth with the aid of cards.)
Make consistent eye contact with audience.
Face audience at all times when speaking.
Question and Answer Session:
Your presentation stimulates questions from the audience.
Audience's questions are guided and kept on the topic.
Questions are answered accurately and fluently. (Admit if you don't know something.)
One person does not dominate Q&A session.
Audience:
Audience has read material and is ready with questions.
Audience takes notes during presentation including questions they would like to ask.
Audience is prepared to be called upon by the instructor to comment and offer questions on the presentation.
For the Instructor:
An outline of the presentation.
A paper copy of all overheads and other visual aids.
Tips for Higher Grades:
Do not spend too much time going over the case. We have all read it. Too much time would be more than 10 minutes. You may want to spend much less time going over material we have already read.
The last person to present should not be the sole person to present the solution to the case. If the last person is presenting proposed solutions, what have you been talking about for the last 15 or more minutes?
Do not try and cover too much material. One indicator of this mistake is when the speakers talk too fast and rapidly display overheads in an attempt to cover all of their talk in the time allotted.
Try and avoid reading directly from index cards. When presenters read from cards, they often adopt a monotone voice and sometimes read too fast.
Presentations that apply concepts and theories that we have discussed or read for class will get higher grades. However, you should not try and throw in concepts that do not really apply to the case.
Do not rely too heavily on visual aids copied directly from the case. It is sometimes useful to display visual aids from the case, but avoid overusing these visuals. Often, you can improve on the visual aids used in the case. We will be more engaged in the presentation if you think of ways to present the data of the case that are fresh and visually interesting.
Avoid using long quotes from the case. It is not very informative to have a long paragraph on an overhead that is read by the presenter when we have already read the quote in the case.
Written material on overheads should be brief and should rarely be read by the presenter. Written “bullet points” are used to reinforce the points that the presenter is making, and the presenter should be verbally presenting an elaboration of the bullet points. However, the presenter should refer to visual aids such as timelines and diagrams so that the audience knows where in a possibly complicated picture they should be directing their attention.
Make the case interesting. What should we learn from your presentation? Can you think of an interesting visual way to present the case? Can you make the case entertaining?