HLTH 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Eye Contact, Margaret Harris
7 May 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Health 200
T/Th 2:30pm-3:45pm
Lisa DuPree, Jamie Hamblin, Dr. Margaret Harris
Tuesday, 1/30/18
1
The Body and the Voice
• Presenting is like telling a story
• Your ody laguage otriutes to the story you’re tryig to tell through your
presentation
• The body
o Neutral body
▪ Be aware of what your body is doing: arms, facial expressions, fidgeting
▪ Body oveets that are’t essetial to the presetatio a e
distracting
▪ Stand straight up, with your feet facing forward
o Grounding
▪ No pacing or excessive walking
▪ Walking around can be used to keep different areas of the room engaged
o Eye contact
▪ Eye contact engages the audience
▪ Change the focus of your eye contact throughout the presentation
• Spend about 2 seconds looking at any one area before changing
your eye contact
o Volume
▪ Breathe deeply to bring power to your voice
▪ Mentally send your voice to the back of the room
o Arms
▪ Use arms for emphasis only, otherwise leave them at your side
• The voice
o Do’t use asedig slides
▪ Ascending slides are when your voice goes up at the end of a sentence, so
everything sounds like a question
▪ It makes you sound unsure
▪ This issue can be fixed by practicing and reading aloud
o Avoid Frogging: the lazy groggy voice with no pitch or inflection
o Avoid usig plaeholders u, like
▪ This can be fixed by reading aloud, practicing, slowing down, and using
pauses
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