Kara Masterson https://www.briggsavsolutions.com 2m 523 #presentation
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Ensuring that the corporate even presentation you’re preparing to give will be a hit is not something you want to slack off on. From staying focused throughout the presentation to finding ways to invite greater levels of audience participation, learning how to host the best presentation you could possibly give during your next event could end up making a world of difference.
Keep Things Short
Often, the most effective presentations are those that take the least amount of time. Failing to stay on topic while speaking, subjecting your audience to endless videos and bloated slideshows, or working with a script that lacks focus are all mistakes that you would do well to avoid. While you should avoid cutting out essential facts, topics, or key bits of information from your presentation, keeping things as brief as possible helps to ensure that your audience remains interested.
Connect With the Audience
Understanding the needs, circumstances, and mindset of your audience can also be of critical importance, especially when it comes to serial presentations that must be delivered to multiple audiences. Lecturing a crowd about a topic that has little to do with them or failing to fine-tune your presentation to account for changing interests, emerging industry trends, and other issues that may allow you to more immediately connect with your audience could prove to be a costly misstep.
Select the Best Format
Trying to make it through your next presentation using nothing but a whiteboard can be an uphill battle. Selecting the best media, the right format of presentation, and ensuring that you will not be limited in terms of the materials and resources at your disposal can go a long way towards improving your next presentation. These could be anything from a simple PowerPoint meant to provide visual aid as you speak, to a video or two that help illustrate your point better.
You’ll also want to consider the space you’ll be giving the presentation in and the type of audience you’re appealing to. Whether or not the format you’ve selected will be enough to grab their attention, or if the area you’re presenting in is big enough for a screen or video projector. Contacting an A/V company to learn more about what your equipment options will be could prove to be very worthwhile.
Invite Active Participation
Audience engagement is a great way to liven up the atmosphere. Asking questions or inviting a volunteer from the audience to join you up on stage can make for an exciting and more interesting change of pace. When it comes to ensuring that your audience is able to remain focused and interested throughout the presentation, encouraging active participation can be key.
A little preparation and access to a wider range of materials and resources can go a long way towards ensuring that your next event presentation will be a successful one. Making an effort to stay focused, finding the right format to present your information, or inviting the audience to take a more active role can all help to turn a dull presentation into a far more successful and memorable event.
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