How do you hold a presentation in public?
The question often arises from the problems that everyone encounters when presenting a job, an idea, a report to colleagues or superiors.
Statistical data informs us that 75% of people suffer from performance anxiety when they have to speak in public, that 70% of people used to make presentations recognize that they played an important role in their careers. Then 33% of people are afraid of not being able to capture the attention of their audience and 75% of people would like to improve their skills.
Here also, thanks to an infographic by The Business Backer, we try to take stock of the situation on how do you hold a presentation in public.
First of all it is essential to plan your presentation by defining a key message that you will use when opening and closing your speech. Around this you will build the rest of the presentation.
So, how do you hold your presentation in public?
The speech you have to keep must be set up as a story, a sequence of causes and effects that the brain immediately captures. Then break down the thought and organize the individual steps harmonizing them to create fluidity in the story. Yes, even a boring data report can contain a story. That of the question that generated that data collection, for example.
Get ready. Both the speech and the visualization of what you are going to say. Help yourself in this by collecting images that can support metaphors, which reinforce the most important contents of your presentation. All without exaggerating: if you present a datum and six images, your data will surely pass into the background.
If you feel insecure you practice, try the presentation, maybe recording audio (with video may be better, anyway) from the computer to understand what steps creak and what you need to change in the show (for example, each of us uses a lot of interleaves in the speech that can become annoying, so listening to your recording again surely you can improve this matter).
Time to deliver, time to panic, time to read again this article on the question: how do you hold your presentation in public?
Well, now you’re in front of your audience and behind you, giant, the first slide appears. Not being able to escape anymore, in the meantime you should take a posture that allows you to give strength to the message also thanks to the non-verbal language: back straight and limit to gesticulate are the first things to keep under observation. Use eye contact, see who is listening to you: they are giving you their time, they deserve the right attention.
After listening to your recordings, you have certainly also learned the rhythm of your presentation, so go ahead and slide after slide to the end of your speech.
Here then we summarize everything in the infographic that published The Business Backer and that you find attached here: includes many tips to adopt on how do you hold a presentation in public?
