Honning Presentation Skills - A Phenomenological Study

Presentation skills play an integral role in students' academics and in professional context.Such skills are particularly important in the workplace, where good presentation skills can help employees to advance their careers and improve their performance. The chief purport of this study was to delineate the students' challenges in presentations with special emphasis on managing one's voice as well as body language, managing audience and managing material with special reference to gender, locality and the batch or course they belong to. The research employs a phenomenological approach which is qualitative and the cohort comprised 98 students pursuing their course at Yashoda Foundation, Secunderabad, Telangana State were chosen through Non -random Convenience Sampling. The instrument is self -developed keeping in view the objectives and hypothesis of the study on a four -point Likert scale. The data were analysed using frequencies, t -test and ANOVA. The results demonstrated that no significant relationship exists between presentation skills of students and managing their voice, body language, audience and material with regard to gender, locality and batch they belongto.Implications as well as suggestions for further research were also portrayed.