Behaviour
- Make eye contact - look at individuals in the audience one at a time for about 5 seconds each to keep your mind set on talking to individuals.
- Lean forward and move around - 'ready position' will encourage you to move around and want to talk to the audience.
- Use gestures and facial expressions - movement catches the eye, the more you move the more your watched.
- Vary your voice - your energy and excitement about the subject should be communicated through your voice.
- Drop non-words - 'ums' and 'ahs' chop up your message so pause for a few second to gather thoughts.
- Dress for success - you're judged on what you wear, your hair, your jewelry. overdress when in doubt.
- Light on text / heavy on images - use images to illustrate and support point.
- Keep graphs simple - graphs should be 2-dimensional
- Use black blank slides - shifts attention back to you after a key point and communicates closure of a section.
- Go easy on transitions - no more than 2-3 different transitions and not every slide. Audience should hardley notice transitions as distract.
- Follow 10-20-30 rule - about 10 slides, lasting no more than 20 minutes, font size 30 or larger.
- Create a handout - if data-heavy, create handout that highlights the key findings so they can take away.
- Practice in front of people - practice first 3-4 times (but don't memorise as you loose meaning), read notes before speech then get tips and practice eye contact.
- Record your presentation - video or audio so know how come across: how look at people, whether leaving pauses, how hear voice, using hands, leaning forward.
- Keep rehearsal shorter - on stage you add content, interact with audience, field questions etc so rehearsal will always be about 75% as long.
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