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Having an Effective Presentation


 Hello all,

I write to you a mere 24 hours before our final Health Communications class and our long awaited final presentation on HPVAX. My group and I have been looking forward to presenting our hard work for some time now. We have spent months gathering all of the necessary information and creating our background, audience segmentation, objectives, communication objective, action plan and evaluation. We are looking forward to sharing with the class our hard work. Before we present I thought it would be helpful to do some research and come up with some tips on how to effectively present a communications plan in a group of 5 people. So here are some of my tips:

1. Introduce yourselves and the topic first. This is a way to hook the audience and have them know what the topic will be on

2. Make smooth transitions. There are 5 people in our group and so we have to make sure the transitions are effortless and smooth as not to distract the audience

3. Don't read off the slides word for word. Give a general overview of the slides and make it more personable. According to the Harvard Business' Review "How to Give a Killer Presentation" the audience receives the presentation differently when they sense that the presenter is reading off the slide. 

4. Create a script to help keep you on track. This is a tip that lifehack.org recommends. 

5. Enjoy the presentation. Feel proud of the work you've done and the importance of it. 

We are so excited to share our work tomorrow with our class and can't wait to hear all the feedback they have. This has been a great semester. 

Thanks you so much for reading our blog and keeping up with us throughout this journey. 

Yours,

Sarah 

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