When preparing for you next presentation remember:
- It's all about the audience
- Don't be nervous
- Slow it down
- Body talk matters
- Tell me the time, not how the watch is made
- Take a deep breath
- shrug your shoulders
- laugh out loud, you have nervousness in you body - release it through laughter
- Non-verbal communication is 65% of your presentation
- eye contact, posture, clothing, facial expressions, tone/volume, hands gestures
- Avoid the ping-pong head (looking side-to side across the audience, express one thought, then switch eye contact
- Avoid moving your hands before you speak, gesture along with voice and tone
- Speak like a sentence with punctuation, otherwise you sound really strange. "That that is, is. That that is not, is not"
- For a comma: pause
- For a period: take a breath
- After a paragraph: swallow
- Silence can be very powerful, it allows people to process what you have said
- Answer one question
- Highlight one point
- Then use the rest of your time to provide support to that one point