Top 10 Tips to a Perfect Presentation
Nick Hill is the Director of Binary Vision, a business performance enhancing training and development consultancy specialising in the development of people potential to improve business results. As he prepares his clients for 2010, making sure they make an impact from day one, he offers advice on how to deliver the perfect presentation.
Training specialist Nick Hill offers tips to help businesses launch into 2010
Nick Hill is the Director of Binary Vision, a business performance enhancing training and development consultancy specialising in the development of people potential to improve business results. As he prepares his clients for 2010, making sure they make an impact from day one, he offers advice on how to deliver the perfect presentation.
Create your preferred physical set up
Preparing your body to present means creating a stance and position that enables you to deliver effectively, and your audience to see a fantastic delivery. Practice by making adjustments to your feet, shoulder and chin positioning until you feel in a position which allows you to feel in the right frame of mind to deliver your presentation in the best way possible.
Use non verbal communication
Presentations can be enhanced through the use of non-verbal communication. Ensure you ‘welcome’ everybody to the presentation and synchronise your verbal welcome with a gesture from the hands that highlights to your audience that it is them you are referring to.
Create the impression with eye contact
Maintaining eye contact with your audience is key to maintaining a connection and for some can be challenging. For those new to this, looking across the hairline of those watching is a compromise that only you will know is taking place!
Use language to paint pictures that connect you to your audience
Scale up your language! Are you dynamic, quite dynamic, very dynamic, extremely dynamic? Language can be the key difference between an OK performance and a fantastic performance.
Utilise your space
In formal presentation situations fluidity of movement in and around the presentation area allows you to connect further with your audience as you can physically move towards them and enhance that physical connection further.
The power of the pause
Presenting your verbal communication in a manner that ensures your audience can have time to resonate with your words and create the meaning for themselves, especially at the ‘important points’ is a key skill.
Become a vocal chameleon
Big audiences means multiple people types so ‘chameleon qualities’ in terms of voice variation in areas like speed, range and tonality ensure you associate and accommodate for all in attendance.
Highlight key words
You’ll have some key messages, whatever the context. Work towards creating “inverted commas” for your speech by practising ‘marking’ those words with either a verbal or non verbal cue such as ‘HIGHlightingHEAVily’ the words with a change in tone or volume, or utilising a hand movement during the word/phrase to ‘mark it out’.
You’ll need to re-cap, and sometimes re-cap your re-cap
Depending on the duration, its useful to consider re-capping at least once. At a minimum it refreshes the listener in terms of the salient points of the presentation.
Prepare for ‘possible’ and control the ‘controllable’
Finally. What could possibly happen? Think of the possibilities and work towards mentally dealing with them first. How would you react or deal with a compromising situation? What’s your strategy for dealing with these situations? From potential questions to hecklers take time to consider and prepare to maintain your ‘state’ at all times in the eventuality of something happening and cover those bases.
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0113 245 9132
pr@chocolatepr.co.uk
For more information please visit:
www.binaryvision-nlp.com
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