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How to power up your presentation

The art and science of making a world class presentation
07th June ,2007

Have a presentation nearing!!! You always get the nerves and shivers while presenting. This presentation will help you advance your career ahead. Read on to find out how to improve your presentation skills for lifetime.

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Before the Presentation

1. Know the subject well
Nothing is more important than knowing the subject well. The subject that you speak on should be well researched and learnt before you present on it. While learning the subject or preparing for the subject, many doubts creep up on the topic that intend to speak. In such cases, you should try to hunt up more information on it and strengthen your concepts.

2. Know the audience well
Most of the times we know the profiles of the audience who would attend the presentation. You could either be presenting to the top management, your clients, your people or a mix of both.

Knowing your audience gives you a good advantage as you can prepare for your presentation and anticipate questions that they might have. It gives you an opportunity to prepare visuals and material accordingly. You can pace your presentation and customize your presentation accordingly.

3. Preparing the presentation material
You could either be using Transparency sheets over an Over Head Projector (OHP) or could be using colorful Power Point (PPT) Presentation Slides. I would suggest that if given a choice, you should be present via PPT or a similar tool with Open Office.

With such tools you can present the topic using visuals aids and colors. Like it's said that "A picture is worth a Thousand Words". Using visual aids really helps a lot. The audience gets your message which is registered in their brains for a long time. But care should be taken to avoid graphics and color abuse. I have seen many presentations where to many colors and visuals were used. Such a practice misdirects the audience and carries them away from the message.

Always remember that you need to put in your slides in the most logical manner so that the audience can connect from one slide to the other.

4. Rehearse well
All the people who you have seen giving great presentations rehearse well and practice the presentation routine. Rehearsing how to get up, saying the opening line and running the presentation in front of a mirror or with friends/family is important.

Even the most experienced presenter will rehearse many times. Its important that justice be done to the topic and the audience who give you their valuable time by presenting the topic well.

5. Arrive at the venue before your audience does
This gives you a psychological advantage. When you get there early visualize the audience in front of you. In your mind follow the routine well that you have rehearsed. Look at the props available at the venue. Props like the podium, infra red laser pointing device, etc. If there is a prop that you are not comfortable with, try playing with it for a while and train yourself on it. Checking for tech equipments is a very important part. Always make sure that all your devices and equipments are working perfectly well.

On a cautionary note, when you run the presentation on the projector, avoid the instinct to make last minute corrections. No corrections should happen at the venue as you might completely blow it away with all your rehearsals.

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