Strategies for developing effective presentation skills!!

Delivering a presentation can be difficult, exciting, energy-draining, fun, or all four together. The ability to give a persuasive presentation is a tremendous career booster for a person. Presentation can be defined as a formal event characterized by teamwork and use of audio-visual aids. The main purpose of presentation is to give information, to persuade the audience to act and to create goodwill. A good presentation should have a good subject matter, should match with the objective, should best fit the audience, and should be well organized. Some of the key essential points that a person must kept in mind before giving a presentation are:

1.     Preparation is the most important thing you can do before a presentation in order to do a good job during the presentation. The speaker must plan how to begin the presentation, what to speak in the middle of presentation and how to end the presentation without losing audience interests at any point of time.

2.     Rehearse and practice the presentation. This will help the speaker to be more confident and self-assured. The more the speaker rehearses the better the presentation turns to be. Communicate ideas and facts verbally in a clear and organized way. Adjusts style, tone, and level of verbal communication to fit the audience and situation.

3.     A detailed audience analysis must be made before the presentation, i.e., an analysis of the needs, age, educational background, language, and culture of the target audience. Their body language instantly gives the speaker the required feedback.

4.     A good presentation should be concise and focused on the topic and should have the potential to convey the required information. It should not move off-track.

5.     To communicate the desired information, the speaker should use more of visual aids such as transparencies, diagrams, pictures, charts, etc. Each transparency or slide should contain limited and essential information only and no slide should be kept on for a longer time. Organize all the visuals for making a logical and sound presentation.

6.     The speaker should encourage more questions from the audience. He should be honest enough to answer those questions. If any biased question is put forth by the audience, rearticulate it before answering. Summarize the presentation at the end and give final comments.  

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Best Business Schools in North India

With so many MBA colleges in the northern part of India especially across Delhi NCR, it can become very difficult for a student to choose the top MBA College. Given the large number of institutes, especially with their boastful claims (genuine and otherwise), it is difficult for a student to make the right decision regarding the selection of an institute. That the definition of a 'top B-School' varies between people and across years makes matters greatly complicated. For some people it’s a platform where it can give a boost to people’s career via placement but if not placed/selected then it might be seen as a waste of money.

 It has been seen most of the times that B school exaggerates their claims to lure the potential candidates. But this is the time where students need to be smart and should assess b schools not on the basis of placements but also in terms of other important parameters like Learning experience, Living experience, Placement performance, Selection Process and Future orientation. This important decision would later become the opportunity or a waste of money for them. Considering the issues of which b school should we go for. I have collated a list of top B schools and private B schools in North India based on the above mentioned parameters from a survey conducted by Business Today-MDRA, Best Business School Survey.

Ranking	Top B schools in India	Top Private B schools in India
1	FMS, Delhi	MDI, Gurgaon
2	MDI, Gurgaon	IMI, Delhi
3	IMI, Delhi	BIMTECH Gr Noida
4	IIFT, New Delhi	Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management, Delhi
5	Department Of Management Studies, IIT Delhi	Asia Pacific Institute of Manangement, New Delhi
6	BIMTECH, Greater Noida	-
7	Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management, Delhi	-
8	Asia Pacific Institute of Manangement, New Delhi	-

Source: 14th "Business Today - MDRA" Best Business School Survey

Hope this list might help you in short listing and selecting your “dream” b schools, though the list covers only the b schools of North India.

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How to make the most out of your MBA degree

Prevailing is the season of choice, the choice of programs, disciplines and specialization streams. Doing a business management degree course is one of the choices that almost every graduate thinks about and evaluates at least once during this time of his life. A business management degree undoubtedly provides you with the plethora of skills and aptitude that a successful future business leader needs. It provides you with a vision of a thriving tomorrow. It endows you with the power to imagine yourself as being able to command a promising future and career. But not all who undertake this course make up to be leaders. It takes something more than just occupying a seat in a good business school and attending the lectures and submitting assignments on time. Hereunder are enumerated some of the very vital requirement which a business school student should fulfill in order to make the most out of his/her management degree.

1)    Curiosity to Absorb: an MBA student’s brain should work like a sponge during the two years of his business management degree. By this we mean that students must acquire as much as they can by the means of observation, adaptation and curiosity to acquire and retain knowledge. In a degree course like that of MBA students are not always expected to be buried under books and lecture notes. But they are expected to have their eyes and senses always open to new facts, happenings and incidents around them. It is therefore necessary that they keep their curiosity quotient to be above the average mark.

2)    Read your way to success: in this age of computers, laptops and mobiles, reading the conventional books and journals has been something that students often forget. But, in fact reading is a very easy way to learn not only about the recent developments around you but it also helps in developing strong writing and speaking skills. Reading also helps a lot while learning business communication and writing official transcripts.

3)    Recreation without technology: as I said earlier that mobiles and technology has been so much into our life these days that students never think of doing something that does not involve technology. I would suggest that students should make time to be with themselves for some time each day. That helps a lot to rethink their way of taking things. They should realize that ultimately they will have to face and lead their world by themselves. So why not make most out of these two years to rethink the way they have been till date.

4)    Self development is the key: two years of the MBA degree course should be taken as training period by the students. In fact, business management degree is not about learning something out of the world. It is about developing perspective through learning and training. For students who are from commerce background, some subjects that are taught during the two years seem to be more of reinforcement of what they have already learnt in graduation and senior high school. But the key to learning in MBA lies in application and reinforcement of the concepts earlier learnt.

Apart from the points mentioned earlier, it is important that regular and guest lectures, industry visits and field visits should be taken sincerely by the students. After all the more you sweat, the more you learn. The phenomena of learning are the most celebrated ones at Asia Pacific Institute of Management. APIM is the most sought after name in management education in India. Here education is made as enjoyable as possible by friendly and learned faculty. Hope to see you soon at the next GD PI session.

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