Fearless Presentations® - 101 Public Speaking Tips

101 Public Speaking TipsThis list is taken from…

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Fearless Presentations® - 101 Public Speaking Tips

Design a Good Skeleton of a Presentation

1. Create a Clear and Specific Title or Topic

2. Limit Your Support to a Few Most Important Points

3. Add Stories

4. Use Stories to Reinforce Facts and Figures

Fearless Presentations® - 101 Public Speaking Tips

Reduce Public Speaking Fear

5. Practice with a Partner

6. Avoid Video Feedback

7. Get Good at Delivering without Notes and Visual Aids

8. Butterflies are Normal

9. Lose Train of Thought? If you lose your train of thought and feel some panic, then one of a couple of things might be happening. You likely have a bunch of bullet points that are difficult to remember. If so, go back through the earlier tips and design your speech differently. If you are feeling light headed and confused, though…

10. Breath

11. Realize 90% of Nervousness Doesn’t Show

12. Avoid Writing Presentation Word for Word

13. Avoid Memorizing Your Entire Speech

Fearless Presentations® - 101 Public Speaking Tips

Add Energy to Your Presentation

14. Add Energy and Enthusiasm

15. Talk with Your Hands

16. Make Your Gestures Bigger than Your Body

17. Exaggerate Gestures in Big Venues

18. Speak Faster

19. Move Faster

20. Speak Up; Your voice is your best tool when you present, so use it. If you are quiet, the audience will question your authority on the subject. Increase your volume a little to show the audience that you are in control.

21. Change Your Tone

Fearless Presentations® - 101 Public Speaking Tips

Add Impact and Pizzazz to Your Presentation

22. Make Your Title Audience Focused

23. Make Your Bullet Points Title Focused

24. Add More Stories

A Few Ways to Use Stories to Reduce Nervousness and Add Impact

25. Add a Moral or an Action

26. Use Success Stories as Proof

27. Learn from Mistakes

28. Give Contrasting Examples

Fearless Presentations® - 101 Public Speaking Tips

A Few Ways to Use Audience Participation to Add Impact

29. Add Audience Participation

30. Avoid Rhetorical Questions

31. Be Careful with Yes/No Questions

32. Avoid Single Answer Questions

33. Ask Open Ended, Opinion Based Questions

34. Think/Write/Share

35. Use Sticky Notes to Get Input

36. Practice with a Partner

37. Have a Contest

Fearless Presentations® - 101 Public Speaking Tips

Other Ways to Add Impact to Presentation

38. Analogies

39. Anecdotes Add Fun and Humor

40. Demonstrations

41. Offer a Sample

42. Quote from an Expert

43. Name Drop

44. Add Showmanship

Fearless Presentations® - 101 Public Speaking Tips

A Few Ways to Add Showmanship

45. Use Posters Instead of Pictures

46. Add Some Magic

47. Teach The Audience Something that will Surprise Them

48. Props can Add Showmanship

49. A Good Leave-Behind can Add Showmanship

Organizing the Presentation

50. Limit Your Presentation to Five or Fewer Points

51. Add at Least One “Impact Idea” to Each Point

52. Take a Break

53. Use Your “Impact Ideas” to Alter Time

Fearless Presentations® - 101 Public Speaking Tips

PowerPoint Tips54. Design Your Presentation First, then Add Visual Aids55. Use Fewer Slides56. Less is More57. 6 X 658. Avoid Overuse of Animation59. Use Appropriate Animation to Clarify Your Points60. Charts and Graphs are for Handouts, not PowerPoint Slide Decks61. Avoid Pictures for Decoration62. Add Pictures for Clarity63. Consider Boards Instead of Slides64. PowerPoint Slide Colors65. Use Simple Fonts66. Use Bullet Points67. Reveal Your Bullets One at a Time68. Point to Bullets when You Reference Them69. Stand Up When You Speak70. Practice with Your Slides71. Avoid “Read… Click…”72. Design Your Own Slideshow

Fearless Presentations® - 101 Public Speaking Tips

Places to Practice

73. Social Clubs74. Chambers of Commerce75. Libraries and City Recreation Centers76. Lunch-N-Learns77. Teleseminars or Webinars78. Association Meetings in Your Industry79. Association Meetings in Client Industries80. Trade Shows81. Marketing Seminars by Reservation82. Paid Seminars83. Paid Consulting Meetings84. Radio and TV Shows85. YouTube86. Podcast Your Videos87. Joint Venture Seminars

Fearless Presentations® - 101 Public Speaking Tips

Team Sales Presentations

88. Prepare Your Team Ahead of Time

89. Talk About THEM, Not You

90. Show the Client that You are a Team

91. Use Showmanship

92. Question and Answer Sessions

93. Questions for Clarity

94. Questions to Test You

95. Set a Time Limit

96. Ask the First Question if Needed

97. When Time Expires, End It

Fearless Presentations® - 101 Public Speaking Tips

The Seven Deadly Sins of Presenting(We know… This puts us at 103 tips versus 101, but we like to over-achieve.)

98. Thou Shan’t Not Go Overtime without Consent

99. To “uh” is Human, but Too Many is Annoying

100. Thou Shall Not Speak Monotonally

101. Thou Shall Not Use Shop-Talk

102. Thou Shall Not Speak Whilst the Audience Readests Thy Slide

103. Thou Shan’t Not Read Endless Excerpts to Thine Audience

104. Thou Shan’t Not Dump Endless Data Upon Thine Audience

The good news is that if you follow the prior tips, you will never violate any of these deadly sins!

Fearless Presentations® - 101 Public Speaking Tips

101 Public Speaking TipsThis list is taken from…

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