Friday, April 11, 2008

Proactive Presentation Tips

M.M.M.Ahmed, Editor, Proactive Personality Developer

* Keep the audience interested and inspired.

* Verbal, Visual and aural ideas to get your message across.

* Organise your information.

* Be authoritative to handle the questions.

* A sense of humour to keep the audience receptive.

* Build rapport with the audience.

* Don't give handout at the beginning. People will read instead of paying attention to you.

* Proactive presentation involves what you say,how you say, how you look, your voice and body language.

* Make presentation pleasure not plain.

* Concentrate on the main objective of the presentation.

* Project your best professional self.

* A good presentation is a mixture of total relaxation and concentration.

* Do a psychological warm-up before presentation.

* Do a vocal warm - up before presentation Do a physical warm -up before presentation.

* Walk like a winner, head up, easy pace, good eye contact, pause and smile.

8 Don't speak and walk at the same time, it reduces your impact to zero.

* Memorize your opening and closing remarks for more impact.

* Have a spray of your favourite scent to boost your confidence.

* Look sincere, look the part, look credible, look enthusiastic and look at your audience.

* Get feed back of your presentation.

* Check out your positive mental attitude.

Pre-Presentation self-talk ----- I am well - prepared.

During - Presentation self - Talk ---- I am doing well.

Post - presentation self - talk ---- I have done well.

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