Thursday, March 25, 2010

Secret of a good presentation

A good presentation is actually not a presentation, it is a Dialogue, a one-to-many dialogue. How is it s dialogue? While delivering presentation, you are speaking, but you have to look into the audience, look at their expressions, are the nodding, smiling, getting what you are saying. Audience will “speak” affirmatively silently, to your messages, if they get it. In that sense it is almost like a two way dialogue, where you are speaking and audience is responding by expressions. Make your presentation a “Conversation”.

So, make your presentation a dialogue, a story. Tell that story in an interesting way. Your main message of the presentation should go through, nothing else matters.

Worst thing to do in a presentation is to cram it. We should know the topic, the overall message. The message of the presentation should be like North Star to you, should guide you throughout the presentation. Then just tell the message in as simple words as possible, as you would tell somebody in a one-to-one conversation.

Before the presentation, record your voice, try to set the Pace and Volume of your voice, by listening to your own voice. Once you are satisfied listening to your own voice, I am sure audience is going to like it.

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