Effective Presentations

Here is a bar graph showing that the more you use in your presentation the more effective it is. This example shows that by just speaking your presentation can be boring. By using visuals and speaking less it is a bit more effective because the audience see's something. The most effective way would be to use visuals while speaking to get the most effective presentation results.

Personal Experience

Getting the audience's attention and keeping that attention is probably one of the most difficult things during a presentation. By asking the audience questions and showing them demonstrations gets the audience involved in your presentation. I did a presentation before where I asked my audience questions every couple of minutes to get them involved. I let them know that if they listened and mentioned 3 points I talked about and why they thought they were important points at the end of my presentation, they will receive a prize. The prize was a box of candies which they got to choose from. I realized that giving the audience something will help because you will know that you are not wasting your time, because you have the audiences attention, when I didn't give away any prizes or ask questions I realized I lost a lot of students attention which made me want to finish my presentation as fast as possible and I lost interest in my presentation myself. After working on this blog I realized I need to improve my presentation skills by having more eye contact with my audience. This can be done by going over my presentation over and over before hand. I will have more knowledge on my topic which will decrease the amount of times I look at my paper and increase the amount of times I look at my audience.

Feel free to tell me about your good or bad experiences in the post comment option below I will be happy to read them and try to help you improve with your next presentation.

Face It

Face it, through all your years in school you hated going up in front of the class to do a presentation. You would avoid eye contact, keep your hands in your pocket, stand in one spot and mumble. If that was you I would encourage you to go over these nine key techniques to gain and keep the audiences attention. After reading my blogs and watching the videos I guarantee you will have more confidence in your presentation skills and you will not bore your audience. I hope this helps.

Poll on the right

There is a poll you can take on the right side of my blog answering as an audience member. One simple vote and we can take a look at what you believe speakers lack during their presentations.

Feedback

I hope these nine techniques helped you with your future presentations. It would be great if you could leave me feedback on what other topics I could cover about presentation skills. Let me know how your presentations went and if you caught your audiences attention from start to finish. I'm looking forward to hearing from everyone. If you have any questions feel free to contact me on this blog.

Youtube link # 2: Killer Presentation Skills

After watching this video you will see presentations in a completely different way. You will grasp your audiences attention in a professional manner and keep it till you are done your presentation.

Youtube link # 1 : 5 Presentation Tips

Here is a Youtube video of Antonio Centeno giving you 5 presentation Tips to help you gain and also keep the audience's attention.