Objective

Every presentation should have an objective. The speaker main objective is to deliver the message (objective) to the audience. The objectives may vary from one talk to another. To identify the real objective one needs to ask the following question: "If everything goes perfectly, What I intended to achieve?". One also should realize who are the audience and their educational level. The time in most cases is limited. It is of utmost importance to keep within scheduled time some question/answer session. For this detailed planing is required. Different tools could be used in the presentation such as, slides, models,transparency, audio-visual, and web. Make sure if more than one medium is used, time to shift is accounted for. One easy way to see effectiveness of presentation while in a team is for one to play the role of the speaker and the rest of the team as the audience and possibly play the devils advocate.