Presentation Tips

Prepare:

• Know what you’re talking about 
• Plan to a story you want to tell and break down slides to remind yourself
• Use imagery to enhance what you’re saying and reinforce points you’re covering 
• Limit text as lots of text takes away from what your saying 

Relax:

• Fight or flight reaction to facing crowds
• Easiest way to relax is to prepare and rehearse so you are fully conversant with what your talking about 
• Keep it simple

Other top tips:

• Speak Clearly
• Take your time and try not to read from notes.
• Introduce yourself, simply tell people who you are .
• Smile!
• Tell them what they're going to see
• Set out what you want to cover during the presentation 
• Make eye contact, pause and relax and remember to smile 
• Take your time, theres no need to rush
• A few pauses will relax you and helps people catch up and consider potential questions 
• Tell it as a story: Beginning, middle, end 

Checklist:

• why am I doing it 
• what am I trying to get over 
• what do I need to show 
• get a rough draft together, time it out and refine 
• check quality of images 
• spell check if using words
• check files on more than one computer 
• save as a pdf