Powerful Presentations: 3 Quick Tips for Making a Great Speech

Powerful Presentations: 3 Quick Tips for Making a Great Speech

by Gilda BonannoPresentation Skills Coach & Professional Speaker

Whether you are

presenting on a large stage

Or a small one

Your goal is to be:

Engaging

Effective

Powerful

Tip #1 Focus on your audience

What is your message?

Why should the audience

care?

Your audience is tuned to station WIIFM “What’s In It For Me?”

Tip #2 Practice, practice, practice

Sitting at your desk thinking about what you’d like to say…

is NOT practice

Sitting at your desk flipping through your slides…

is NOT practice

Practice is saying the words out loud…

in as close to the real setting as possible

Tip #3 If you must use slides, use them wisely

NOT

PowerPoint is only a tool

A picture is worth a thousand words…

or bullet points of text…

#1: Focus on your audience #2: Practice, practice, practice

#3: If you must use slides, use them wisely

3 Quick Tips

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