Presentation Tips - Dos and Don'ts
How to Get Your Audience Wanting More
1. Believe in your message.
2. Believe in yourself.
3. Open with impact.
4. Close on a positive note.
5. Let your personality shine through.
6. Flex to the style of your audience.
7. Answer the question your audience will be asking: 'What's in this for me?'
8. Involve your audience and arouse their curiosity.
9. Use picture language.
10. Add variety and be creative.
11. Have an unusual slant or angle to your topic.
12. Spend as much time thinking about delivery and performance as you do about content.
13. Keep the focus on what you want rather than on what you don't want.
Ways to Destroy a Presentation
1. Be unprepared.
2. Relate to your material more than your audience.
3. Apologise for yourself.
4. Repeat yourself.
5. Overload with information.
6. Tell a bawdy joke.
7. Have little variety.
8. Read your presentation.
9. Ignore time constraints.
10. Use slang or speak technical jargon.
11. Learn how the equipment works in front of the audience.
12. Make yourself so important the audience feels inadequate.
13. Direct your presentation at one or two people.
