Presentation Skills: Use these sample phrases to craft meaningful performance evaluations, drive change and motivate your workforce.

Presentation Skills are useful in getting your message or opinion out there in many aspects of life and work, though they are mostly used in businesses, sales, teaching, lecturing, and training.

Presentation Skills: Exceeds Expectations Phrases

  • Always prepares well before making any form of presentation whether formal or non-formal.
  • Gives a clear and well-structured delivery when making a presentation.
  • Exhibits excellent skill when it comes to expressing ideas and opinions with clarity.
  • Knows the audience well enough to use proper language and terms.
  • Engages well with audiences before, during and after delivering a presentation.
  • Gives the audiences ample and appropriate time to ask questions.
  • Creates a very lively and positive outlook when delivering a presentation.
  • Adjusts very well to the new surrounding and exudes a great aura of confidence.
  • Knows how to get and maintain the attention of the audience.
  • Responds well to questions and issues raised by the audience.

Presentation Skills: Meets Expectations Phrases

  • Organizes a good, balanced and dynamic presentation with high impact results.
  • Demonstrates good ability to use visual aids most appropriately during presentations.
  • Speaks in a good speech rate not so fast and at the same time not too slow.
  • Explains each point to the fullest and only tries to emphasize the key points.
  • Demonstrates a good logical order when presenting ideas not to confuse the audience.
  • Uses non-verbal forms of communication such as facial expressions in a good way.
  • Does proper research on the topic to be presented to gather all updated facts and figures.
  • Delivers short and powerful presentations that create interest and excitement.
  • Knows how to use true stories in between the presentation to pass across a point or to grab the audience's attention.
  • Makes good eye contact with the audience from the start of the presentation to the end.

Presentation Skills: Needs Improvement Phrases

  • Does not make good and consistent eye contact with the audience.
  • Has minimal movement on stage and does not walk around the presentation room.
  • Does not talk in a very engaging and positive way something that creates a dull presentation.
  • Does not exude confidence and poise when delivering a presentation.
  • Uses old facts and figures when presenting as a result of not doing enough research.
  • Gives long presentations and does little to get the attention of the audience.
  • Does not use the visual aids to help deliver a powerful conversation.
  • Does not know the audience well and uses hard words that they do not understand.
  • Does not give audiences ample time to raise questions and to seek clarification if need be.
  • Presents ideas in a non-logical manner that creates confusion to the audience.

Presentation Skills: Self Evaluation Questions

  • Have you ever gone for presentation without preparing well? How did the presentation go?
  • How frequently do you engage your audience during any presentation?
  • What was the highest score or reviews you received for any presentation that you have made so far?
  • Give an instance your presentation backfired and what was your backup plan?
  • How do you normally conclude your presentations and how can you rate it?
  • How well do you deal with questions and issues raised by the audience?
  • When it comes to nervousness, how do you manage or deal with it before hand?
  • How can you rate your experience level when it comes to giving presentations?
  • What do you like or dislike most about giving presentations?
  • What presentation method do you like and why do you like it?

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