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Do you want to make your next presentation more effective? Use these nine simple yet powerful presentation tips and techniques to enjoy better results when you speak before an audience.

Effective public speaking is not talent. It is a set of skills and techniques that are learned, practiced and delivered well. Learn the techniques and start practicing for your next successful presentation now. Don’t wait until you are asked to speak. Be ready.

Silence
Practice saying nothing. Not gibberish – nothing, as in silence. It is so powerful. Pause before you start, pause after you said something important and pause when you are done. Just say less and get more comfortable with the silences.

Mirror
Your audience will mirror you. If you frown – so will they. If you want them to smile – you must smile. Laugh and they will laugh with you. There are no ugly audiences – only ugly speakers.

Show Your Hands
Keep your hands where we can see them. We will trust you more. Hiding your hands behind your back will make us wonder, “What is he hiding back there?” Putting them in your pockets might feel good – but you lose power and can appear too casual. Let your hands hang at your side. As you speak and become involved in your speech you will naturally move them. You will look more natural. You will appear more trustworthy.

Look at Your Audience
Look at the audience – not the screen, the back wall, or your notes. Talk to them – look at them – one at a time. Move your eyes from one to another as though you are having many one-on-one conversations.

Nod Your Head
When you ask the audience to respond to your question show that you respect their response. Pause and look around the audience; nod your head in approval or show your delight with a smile. Remember you asked them a question. Show that you really wanted an answer.

Smile
Sometimes your audience will laugh when you do not expect it. Pause and let them enjoy it. Smile and show you also have a sense of humor – even if you are not sure why they are laughing.

Appoint an Assistant
When you speak before a group, always have a helper who can fix the lights, help with handouts, and usher latecomers to their seats. When looking for volunteers don’t waste time waiting for someone to put up their hand. Appoint your volunteers. Always thank them.

Prepare for your Worst Question
Always be prepared to handle your worst question. You know what it is – the one you dread the most. It might be that you are too expensive, too cheap, too old, too new, too far, too near… Imagine how powerful you will appear when it is posed and you can smile and give the answer you rehearsed.

Edit your Words
Don’t offend your audience by using insulting phrases like “obviously” or “everyone knows”. If it is not oblivious to them or if they don’t believe that everyone knows then you have either insulted them or alienated them.

You can use these nine simple presentation tips and techniques to deliver more effective presentations today. It will take some practice but you can do it. Make your next presentation a success by paying more attention to the details.

Perhaps one of the most wasted opportunities in higher education is the area of student oral presentations. Because we live it every day, we understand the inherent benefits of

• preparing a convincing argument,
• presenting it to others, and
• responding to their questions and signals.

As a type of alternative assessment (i.e., a way to find out what students are learning via a means other than a traditional paper/pencil exam), oral presentations allow students to master an array of life skills that seemingly can be mastered through few, if any, other vehicles. Although many professors do require students to make presentations, often, unfortunately they provide such muddled expectations of student performance that students are set up for failure. Some students will thrive in spite of their professors’ poor handling of the process; many others, however, will become so unnerved that they will literally become sick. How can you make sure that you do not waste the opportunity to help students be successful?

First explain to students that they already do oral presentations every single day of their lives – presentations that are called by such innocuous names as conversations, discussions, and interviews.

Second, to help students deliver a solo performance in front of the entire class, you can stair-step them to that point rather than tripping and shoving them into what they often perceive as a lake filled with alligators.

• For the first step, start small, by having students interview a single other student and then report the results, while seated, to the rest of the class.
• Move up to panel discussions, in which each student is expected to present a specifically selected portion of a broader topic.
• Continue upward by having students deliver an extemporaneous thirty-second response to a course topic drawn from a hat or shoebox.
• Finally, if you have provided ample verbal feedback (not just numerical scores) throughout the preliminary activities, and have given students a clear rubric will in advance, they can reach the high point of giving a short presentation in front of the class. Even those few experienced, high school debate team members you may have who are capable of delivering a moving presentation on the first day of class will benefit from the preliminary activities.

Many students may think that oral presentations should be limited to speech classes, but the reality is that being well prepared to make presentations to other individuals is a necessity in today’s society. This applies to health care professionals, salespeople, administrators, training officers, managers, teachers (duh), and on and on. To leave your students unprepared would be to shirk your responsibility as an educator. When you have worked to develop your students’ speaking skills, as you well know, you will see the concomitant growth in self-esteem, poise, and leadership.

That’s a good day’s work, isn’t it?

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