3 Ways TO Make Your

Presentations

More Professional

We’ve all sat through bumbling cringe-worthy presentations (or even

fell asleep during them!) where the speaker is completely ineffective

and just relies on nice PowerPoint slides, but with a terrible

explanation of what’s actually on the slide, or even worse, reading

straight off it. Slides are for reference people! Not your whole

presentation!

With that said, we’ve found three of the best ways to make your

presentation that much more professional.

1. Know your material inside and out

This is the number one spot where those of us that are nervous

speakers often trips up. If you have your entire speech written out on

palm cards you better make entirely sure that you have memorised it.

What’s better is to opt for short points that you can expand on. The best

way to give a great speech is to absolutely know your content inside

and out. So read, read, read, ask your co-workers questions, and just

learn as much about the topic as possible – so you at least have a wealth

of information that you have learned to draw on, should you get stuck

at any point across your presentation. Throw in a cool fact, and then

move on to your next point.

2. Involve the audience

Here are the things that you can do to involve your audience more in

your conversation:

Ask questions. Not just the raise your hand type, or yes or no

questions, but ones that involve a lengthier answer. This will help

to keep people awake, so sprinkle them throughout.

Get audience members up to the front of the room to either come

or look over a product, or to complete a demonstration with them

as your assistant.

Come around to the audience and jump in with them! Why not

walk around through your audience to either show them

something up close, or just to stretch your legs a little.

3. Use a clever portable banner backdrop

You should always be driving the main point of your presentation

home. Why are you there today? What are you trying to get across to

them? If it’s simply to communicate your brand and message, you can

place that on a retractable banner, or if it’s a product or service, put a

glossy picture of it on your pull-up banner.

One banner stand on slight angle just behind and to the left, your

podium (or talking spot) is de rigour for these sorts of presentations.

The angle is to reduce shine directed straight back on your audience.

Presented By

Banner Bug www.bannerbug.com.au