PowerPoint Tips

JUNE 1, 2014

” Near the end, I used a slide that summarized a few points about presentation delivery. These are the points I made: Lights: If possible, it’s best to keep the lights on so that the audience can see you and vice versa. Don’t read: The audience hates it when you read text on slides. Practice so that you can take one glance at the slide and then look at the audience to make your point. What presentation delivery tips do you suggest?

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DeFinis Communications

MAY 19, 2020

It can be challenging to juggle the many components of virtual delivery—managing the meeting participants, monitoring the chat, and troubleshooting the technology while still coming across as compelling and confident. When you do, you’ll “wow” your audience and deliver an Oscar worthy performance that positions you as the expert.

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Manner of Speaking

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

The graduates had taken their seats, the audience was settled in, the three-piece orchestra had just finished the last of its pieces. Everything … Continue reading → Delivery audience Microphone presentations public speakingLast week I attended the graduation ceremony for the class of a business school where I teach.

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Ian Griffin - Professionally Speaking

AUGUST 30, 2018

Whether he’s coaching high-level executives or thought leaders taking the stage for conference keynotes or commencement addresses, Jeff brings a thoughtful, personal touch to his roles, tapping into speakers’ personal passions and helping them create lasting connections with their audiences. On Thursday, August 30th the Silicon Valley Speechwriters Roundtable hosted Jeff Davenport in a free conference call.

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Presentation Guru

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

It is these skills that help the speaker connect with the audience, communicate a clear message, and make that message memorable. The best speakers can achieve all these goals plus leave their audience feeling enriched, educated, and entertained.… What a seasoned public speaker brings to the stage is a collection of presentation skills. … Performance Anxiety Body Language featured Nerves

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Craig Strachan - Keep Talking!

MAY 3, 2011

Your audience will never know what’s most important. Craig Valentine offers 10 simple guidelines for adding impact to your speech. Included are: 1. Don’t move all the time. If you are always moving then no movement will be meaningful. Move with a purpose. When there is no reason to move, don’t. Don’t use the same gesture over and over again. This is evidence of a habit and most likely distracts from your presentation. Read the full list with more details and audio-examples here.

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Manner of Speaking

JANUARY 15, 2021

It is annoying for both speaker and audience. It is a simple way to avoid unnecessary distraction of a creaky stage for you and your audience. You will see the tape, but your audience won’t. Have you ever listened to a speaker who is standing on a creaky stage?

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Speaking about Presenting

APRIL 30, 2009

There’s a revolution in the design of PowerPoint slides, but not the delivery. They click, they talk, click, talk, click, talk… Here are five methods that will make the delivery of your PowerPoint presentation stand out. I stay silent while the audience takes the slide in. I start talking again when I can see that the majority of the audience has transferred their attention back to me. This method uses the power of intriguing your audience.

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Presentation Guru

DECEMBER 17, 2019

… Uncategorised Understand your Audience Events featured Hook your Audience Presentation Delivery read Technical Problems Understand your audienceHave you ever had a realisation mid conversation that you’ve completely misread the people you are talking to and said the wrong thing? It’s a horrible feeling. Now, can you imagine this in front of a room filled with people?

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Duarte Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

The audience is. The post A Guide to Mastering Overcoming Audience Resistance appeared first on Duarte. Audience Delivery Message Presentations audience presentation ResistanceWhen you walk into a room as a presenter, it’s easy to feel as if you’re the central figure: You’re up front, and people came to hear you. In reality, though, you’re not the star of the show. It’s in their power to embrace—or reject—your ideas. You’re presenting because you need them to [.]

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Speak Schmeak

MAY 3, 2010

However, if your voice tends toward monotonous or if you have a hard time expressing yourself in front of an audience, reading aloud will be invaluable for the improvement of your delivery. Here's a quick tip for those of you who want to improve the expressiveness of your voices when giving presentations: Practice reading aloud. This is an exercise I use with my clients who need help with bringing more color and clarity to their voices and speech.

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More than PowerPoint...

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

Borrowing from the world of robotics, I call this phenomenon the uncanny valley of design and delivery. I don’t run into the uncanny valley of presentation design and delivery too often, but when I do — my hair stands on end. When presenters carefully design and deliver a flawless presentation, the audience will dislike both the topic as well as the presenter. A performer and presentation can be overly polished and perfect. Creepily so.

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Manner of Speaking

APRIL 9, 2019

Audience Delivery audience gestures public speakingThere is a lot to learn about public speaking. The fact that I have been writing this blog for 10 years is testament to that. And no matter how much you learn, no matter how good you become, you will … Continue reading → The post A giant leap forward in your public speaking appeared first on Manner of Speaking.

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Speak Schmeak

MAY 3, 2010

However, if your voice tends toward monotonous or if you have a hard time expressing yourself in front of an audience, reading aloud will be invaluable for the improvement of your delivery. Here's a quick tip for those of you who want to improve the expressiveness of your voices when giving presentations: Practice reading aloud. This is an exercise I use with my clients who need help with bringing more color and clarity to their voices and speech.

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Duarte Blog

MARCH 31, 2017

Don’t panic, but if you want to engage your audience in a presentation, you have about 30 seconds to make it happen. Over the years, Duarte’s studied thousands of effective presentations that have kept audiences engaged, engrossed, and even on the edge of their seats. Structure your Presentation to Keep the Audience Engaged. The most crucial step in engaging your audience is taken before your presentation begins, as you’re planning it. Segment the Audience.

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Duarte Blog

JUNE 21, 2012

In 2006, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer stood in front of an audience of software developers and thanked them for building applications that run on Windows. Fast forward to June 18 of this year, when Ballmer stood in front of an audience of reporters and bloggers to announce the launch of Surface , Microsoft’s new tablet PC. When you watch the presentation , you’ll notice that the entire production—from the messaging to the staging—was choreographed with both audiences in mind.

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Duarte Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Presentation expert Clif Atkinson tells a great story about a 2009 education conference where two speakers got very different reactions from their audiences. They critiqued his slides, his content, and his delivery until finally, someone suggested a t-shirt. All this to say that audience participation isn’t necessarily a good thing. To that end, we offer you these 10 positive ways to interact with audience members to foster engagement and participation.

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Humor Power

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

But occasionally, it’s the physical action or delivery that makes the joke funny. Was the audience so focused on what I was SAYING that they were not paying any attention to what I was DOING? It’s normal for an audience to focus on the meaning of the words and to make interpretations and connections. Was the audience confused because it looked like I was singling out Ryan for excellent Observational Humor and not others who also presented good lines?

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Manner of Speaking

AUGUST 10, 2019

Delivery Preparation audience coins in the pocket jingle Presentation public speakingWhen you deliver a speech or presentation, there are several things you do not need to bring on stage: – Your cell phone – Coins in your pocket – Keys in your pocket – Anything that can jingle in your … Continue reading → The post Things that public speakers don’t need on stage appeared first on Manner of Speaking.

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Duarte Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Presentation expert Clif Atkinson tells a great story about a 2009 education conference where two speakers got very different reactions from their audiences. The post 10 Ways to Interact With Audience Members While You Present appeared first on Duarte. Audience Engagement Delivery Presentations Strategy Tips audience engagement communication Interactive Nancy Duarte presentation presentations

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Duarte Blog

MARCH 31, 2017

Don’t panic, but if you want to engage your audience in a presentation, you have a little less than 9 seconds to make it happen. Over the years, Duarte’s studied thousands of effective presentations that have kept audiences engaged, engrossed, and even on the edge of their seats. Structure your Presentation to Keep the Audience Engaged. The most crucial step in engaging your audience is taken before your presentation begins, as you’re planning it.

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Public Speaking Advice and Commentary

JULY 28, 2009

A well-written presentation – badly delivered – is hard work for the audience, and an offense against Style.    A badly written presentation – well delivered – is a trick foisted upon the audience, and an offense against Truth.    So on that score, a good delivery of a bad message is worse than its opposite.  Which is worse, a well-written presentation badly delivered, or a badly written presentation delivered well? 

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Max Atkinson

JUNE 24, 2009

I’ve seen plenty of speeches (and have even penned a few) that started with the instruction ‘Check against delivery’ in the first line, but had never bothered to do so in any detail. What's more, you can go beyond checking against the speaker's delivery and check against what anyone else might saying about a particular speech. You can read the whole speech HERE and check against delivery HERE. Tags: Miliband delivery Crawford

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Dave Paradi's PowerPoint Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

In today’s newsletter, I want to share some of the delivery tips I most often use when answering questions from participants in my workshops. It disconnects you from the audience and gives the impression that the screen is more important than they are. This is great for jumping to a detailed slide to answer an audience member’s question. After you have planned your presentation and created persuasive visuals, you need to prepare to present your presentation.

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Professionally Speaking...

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

But this is not how we generally feel when we are standing in front of an audience and delivering a presentation. In fact, our audiences are giving us one of the most precious gifts of all -- their time. When you think about your audience from this perspective, a number of things happen: It's much harder to be nervous or not fully engaged because you shift your focus away from you and to the audience. When someone gives us a gift we generally feel: happy. grateful.

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The Eloquent Woman

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

But for many speakers, moving from practice to a seemingly effortless delivery is the biggest leap of all. The audience were friendly, laughed at my jokes, and I felt encouraged by them. Do what you need to do to feel at your most relaxed so you can walk out on stage and make relaxed easy conversation with the audience." Getting a feel for audience reactions might have helped me with timing and with conjuring up the vision of a friendly face when I couldn’t see the audience."

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Professionally Speaking...

OCTOBER 7, 2009

When we prepare a presentation, in our enthusiasm for and expertise in our topic, we often disregard our audience's capacity to absorb information. Instead of dazzling our audiences with our knowledge and depth of understanding, and motivating them to buy into our message, too frequently we create audience confusion and overload. WHAT AFFECTS AUDIENCE ABSORPTION? Other variables that affect audience absorption are: Rate of Speech.

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PowerPoint Tips

AUGUST 29, 2011

You’ve created your presentation and now is the time — you’re standing up in front of your audience. You need to know 3 things that the audience hates and how to avoid them. Even worse, you might turn around (away from the audience) and read straight from the screen. This is audiences’ pet peeve. Speaking over the heads of your audience. It’s common to see speakers look out over the heads of the audience instead of directly at them.

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Speaking about Presenting

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Keeping audience attention is more important and more difficult than grabbing audience attention. A reader emailed me: “What can I do to keep the audience’s attention through the whole of my presentation. Make it easier for your audience by following these seven guidelines: [Warning: The first three guidelines require that you know your audience - do the work to find out what your audience is interested in, their background knowledge, level of experience etc.].

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Manner of Speaking

JANUARY 28, 2018

The audience does not think that you’ve forgotten something. The audience does not hear your heart beating. The audience does not think that you are stupid. The audience does not think that you … Continue reading → Delivery Uncategorized pause pausing presentations public speakingFirst, let’s talk about what doesn’t happen.

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Duarte Blog

MARCH 31, 2017

Don’t panic, but if you want to engage your audience in a presentation, you have a little less than 9 seconds to make it happen. Over the years, Duarte’s studied thousands of effective presentations that have kept audiences engaged, engrossed, and even on the edge of their seats. Structure your Presentation to Keep the Audience Engaged. The most crucial step in engaging your audience is taken before your presentation begins, as you’re planning it. Segment the Audience.

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Speaking about Presenting

MARCH 5, 2012

The phrase “tough crowd” takes on an entirely new meaning, with deeper shades of terror-inducing nuances, when public speakers face an audience made up of individuals who do not share the cultural background and world-view of the person behind the microphone. I’m a big fan of using humor in almost any kind of speech, but with non-English speaking audiences, most kinds of wittiness (1) do not translate well, (2) might even end up being inappropriate. Audience

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PowerPoint Tips

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

A presentation that communicates well uses a slide to help the audience understand and remember your point. But, when your topic is a little boring, like a review of 3rd quarter sales, you may need a little help to keep the attention of your audience. Usually, interaction with the audience (asking them a question, for example) might not be appropriate. (It Instead, you can get your audience’s attention by adding a little anticipation.

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Joan Detz Speaker Services

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

The more interesting your research (examples, statistics, case histories, quotations, comparisons, news reports, etc), the more interesting your delivery will become. Avoid seeking opinions from too many people in your audience, or you’ll experience “feedback overload” 5. A skilled speechwriter wrote to say he’d like to improve his own speaking skills, and he asked for some suggestions. Look for opportunities to speak more often.

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Duarte Blog

JULY 27, 2020

Audience Delivery Message Presentations Storytelling psychology speech speeches story storytellingAs a facilitator of communication workshops, I’ve seen that many of our clients aspire to bridge the gap from expert to thought leader.

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Duarte Blog

AUGUST 6, 2020

Audience Business Delivery Presentations Speech Analysis Tips Virtual Communication jeff davenport meetings presentations public speaking public speaking skills skills soft skills speaker coach speaker coaches speaking speaking coachingEvery one of us wants to communicate better.

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Manner of Speaking

OCTOBER 4, 2017

It’s not a special talent bestowed … Continue reading → Audience Authenticity Delivery Presentation Guru Slide Presentation charisma Jim Harvey Presentation public speaking Seth GodinI am one of the co-founders of Presentation Guru, a digital magazine for public speaking professionals. This post is part of a series designed to share the great content on Presentation Guru with the Manner of Speaking community. ——— Charisma.

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Inter-Activ Presenting and Influencing

APRIL 18, 2010

In it he argued that many speakers are lead to believe that “delivery is everything&# and he wanted to redress the balance by making sure that content and language were given at least equal billing. It fills you up at the time but after a few hours you can’t even remember eating it. The reason we put so much emphasis on the delivery side of things is because great content on its own is not enough either. Both are needed for effective and long lasting communication.

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Kate's Voice

JUNE 22, 2014

communication Speaking vocal delivery intention nudity opening and closing public speaking tips Storytelling When I saw my first business presentation 18 years ago, I was afraid that, in my attempt to apply my performing arts skills to business, I had fallen from grace into a pit of darkness and boredom. Since then, there’s been progress; there are many advocates for storytelling and other fresh approaches to presentations. However, […].

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Duarte Blog

AUGUST 13, 2020

Audience Business Delivery Presentations Strategy Tips Captivate cody dishman communication journalism leadership resonate soft skills speak speaker coach speaker coaching speaking speaking skills“What the hell am I looking at here?”

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Humor Power

AUGUST 12, 2009

A great tool for creating and delivering humor is to use a delivery “vehicle.&# The vehicle gives a rhythm which helps the audience get the punchlines. An example of a delivery vehicle is the Reverse-Question formula (giving the answer first and then giving the question). “He crossed the road&# is a sufficiently vague setup that the audience is unlikely to know that it’s a chicken joke.

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Speaking about Presenting

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

In this post, I want to explore what audience members remember from a presentation, using the first three keynotes of the conference as my examples. Audience members were immediately able to say to me that Garr’s message was “Be like bamboo”. Your message, your slides and your delivery need to be balanced. Your slides and delivery are there to serve the message. Last week I spent three awesome days at the Presentation Summit.

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Speaking about Presenting

APRIL 18, 2010

Alec’s drive is to deliver maximum value to his audience. It seems to make intuitive sense that the way to deliver maximum value is to give the audience as much as possible. They can’t adjust the pace of delivery. So instead, view your presentation as just the beginning of your relationship with the people in your audience. You can deliver value to your audience in lots of other ways. Do you try and cram too much into your presentation?

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