How to give a good presentation- 2524082

Your presentation is looking good, now you need to work on your speech to make it a fabulous experience.Are there things you can add to create a great impression? Here are some tips for your quick consideration.

Begin from the audience perspective

Want to grab your audience attention from the first instant? Well, who doesn’t! It will be good idea then to talk about their problems, their lives and then go on to introduce yourself.

For example, this could an introduction, “My name is Mark Arthur. I would like to talk about our new product that is the latest cutting age robotic device for cleaning floors. I assure you this is a cleaning automatic machine that will revolutionize the market this year.”

Instead you can go, “Isn’t it tiresome to go on cleaning floors every day? But then it is a chore that you can’t avoid, can you? For decades, cleaning floors, reaching difficult nooks and corners has taken up valuable time you could have spared on more important things. This is where our product can help you.”

Be yourself

This is a factor many first-timersoften miss. The last thing you want is your audience to be disinterested by a showy, fake irritating tone which is put up and clearly not yours. Either you have picked up this tone from a well-received presentation video or have decided to create this particular made up persona to hide your nervousness. Don’t underestimate the audience – they always catch up quickly on anything made up or pretentious.

Instead, it is simpler and beneficial to be yourself. It is the personal touch, the genuineness that attracts audiences to the speaker. The best speakers at a presentation are unique, confident, great communicatorsand well-received because they are themselves.

Don’t let mistakes stop you

Many of us have an obsession with getting everything perfect and it troubles us no end when we make a mistake. Remember that mistakes are bound to happen at a presentation at times. The best way to overcome it is apologizing, probably making a joke about it and moving on. If you mispronounce something, or stutter at a word, correct the mistake and continue. It is not a sin to make a mistake, don’t take it to your heart and just go with the flow.

Rehearse, rehearse, repeat

Often the major reason your presentation didn’t go that good is the lack of preparation. People take it for granted perceiving that they just have to speak and elaborate on the presentation slides, and the rest will be easy going. But that is never the case, and your laziness can lead to nerves and shuttering, creating an impression that you are unsure of what you are speaking.

That is why repeatedly rehearsing your presentation speech before an imaginary audience or colleagues and friends who can provide you honest feedback for improvements is a good idea. Videotaping the presentation and watching it for errors is another recommended practice.

We hope the above listed tips will help view your presentation speech skills in a different perspective.