1) Interest
Interest plays central for developing the presentation. You need to select the theme of interest for developing proper presentation. Successful presentation relies on interest from both audience and speaker. While choosing the topic, important to go for wide, information rich topic to grab the attention of the audience. Great presentation should always be motivational and informative to the audience.
2) Learn your mistakes from others
Yes sure. Learn few mistakes from other similar or different presentations. It will be a good platform to develop our presentation skills. But, you must be generous and passionate enough to understand and rectify your mistakes from great presentations. You can learn how speakers engage their audience and crowd reaction to the presenter. It is important to learn from the mistakes for presentation skill development.
3) Get yourself into right posture
“First impression is always best impression”, hence keep your appearance as simple and modest. Creating the first impression influences the validity of your presentation. During ancient times, people take immense time to judge oration skills due to the sophisticated set of regulations., current audience judge you in minutes based on your appearance and posture. So, important to keep yourself simple and stand erect and casual. Presenter should make eye contact with the audience to engage the audience. Also, please avoid your nervousness during the presentation. It symbolises the stress during the presentation development. Hence, practice your presentation as much as you can to avoid stress.
4) Engaging the audience
Besides making eye contact, there are many ways to engage audience throughout your presentation. Telling small stories related to the topic will help but it should not deviate from the main presentation. You can ask questions intermittent related to the topic to keep your audience towards you. But keep your questions simple and easy answerable. Asking too tricky questions might make your audience disinterested. It is important to follow a moderate tone during the presentation. Your tone should not have difficulties. Never slow down or run too fast during your oration. It is vital to take a pause during slide change. While conveying information rich content, keep your tone strong and modest to grab audience attention.
5) Have knowledge about ambience
Presenter must have prior knowledge about the presentation stage and its ambience. It is important to do prior study on the auditorium or conference hall to make preparatory work. For example: The presentation slides prepared should be visible to the entire audience sitting in the hall. Keep your slides wide and big font size to increase the visibility. Learn about the aroma and ambience of the place and select the slide background and themes. Make any last minute modification in the slides if you believe it will hit among the audience.
6) Beating stage fear
People are afraid of stages due to the feeling of being judged. Never let yourself to be intimidated as it will lower your self-confidence. Boost your confidence with positive thinking. Think that nothing is earth-shattering. The expectation of the audience will always be narrow and self-focused and hence it is vital to create a positive first impression. Here, practice will help you a lot. You can practice your presentation among your friends, peer groups and family members to learn about your mistakes and to beat your stage fear.
7) Make pauses
It is important to make a short pause during the presentation. It will make your audience to still more attentive towards your speech. Never mug up your slide notes and give your speech. It will give wrong impression and hence make short pauses irrespective of short duration. You can make short pauses by drinking water in the midst or by triggering discussion among audience by asking questions.