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Additional
Tips
For Your
Public Speaking/ Presentations
Here are some more Great Tips to Improve Your Presentations!

2. Never Tell the Audience that you are Nervous or Not Prepared!
It could become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
! They want you to succeed! They came to see and hear you talk and learn something.

3. Continually Refresh Your Material
Refresh your Content and Introduction
! Set up ʻGoogle Alertsʼ so you always have the latest information.
! ! This will make you an Expert!

4. Have and Use a Digital Recorder
! Use it to
! ! Record Ideas for speeches.
! ! Record Speeches.

5. Warm up the Audience!
! Have a ʻShow Before the Showʼ
! ! Perhaps a PowerPoint Loop that ʻprimes the audienceʼ for Your Presentation.

6. Photo Credit: El Caganer
Customize Your Presentation
! For each Audience
! ! Customize Your Introduction
! ! Customize Your Presentation
! Be Audience Centered!

7. Brand Yourself!
! Develop a Signature Close that Brands You and Your Topic.
! ! The Last thing you say, will be the First thing your audience will remember.

8. ʻSTUFFʼ Happens!
! Have a ʻPlan Aʼ, ʻPlan Bʼ, and even a ʻPlan Cʼ
! (Iʼve had a projector break down five minutes before a presentation. Luckily, the facility had a spare!)

9. Connect Emotionally with Your Audience
# If you want the audience to Get It!, there is no better way!

10. Arrive Early
! If the presentation is at 9:00
! ! You arrive at 7:00!
! Check out the room, equipment, seating, etc.
! Meet & Greet guests as they arrive!

11. Last Minute Mirror Check
! Have one with your other presentation materials.
! Check hair, teeth, face, clothing. . .

12. Kiwi Fruit
Your Slides should use Minimal Text
! 32 point font minimum
! Arial, Helvetica or Gill Sans

13. Photo Credit: Klaus Post
Much Better to Use Hi-Res Graphics!
! A picture is worth 1000 words!
! Images help your audience Get It!

14. FRED E. MILLER
Fred@NoSweatPublicSpeaking.com
NoSweatPublicSpeaking.com
314-517-8772