Delivering a presentation

The moment of truth. The day of your presentation.
Here is a little checklist that should be completed beforehand:

1. Your presentation is designed and ready to be shown to your audience.
2. You rehearsed
3. For the sake of stressing the importance of point 2: You rehearsed again!
4. You checked the venue and made up your mind if the room needs any rearrangements
5. All technical equipment works fine and everything will be ready at the day of delivery
6. You have handouts printed 
7. You are rested and prepared
8. You are excited, not nervous to present the next day

Alright all necessary steps are taken, but there are still some issues that distinguish a good presentation from a great and engaging presentation.

I will go into detail with the following points in future posts. Here are some things to think about:

1. Did you use your available resources to your and its full potential?
• write down things that didn't work out quite as well as you planned for future presentations
2. Are you aware of your body-language?
• do you manage to connect with the audience?
• videorecord yourself and analyze your performance without tone
3. Does your voice tremble or gets too high? Do you lose your voice?
• record yourself
• there are great techniques to master your voice!
4. Are you nervous or do you have stage-fright?
• there are exercises to get over stage-fright and nervousness
• I realized that with increasing knowledge and rehearsal of the subject, my nervousness decreases
5. What prompts do you use? Notecards, a script, nothing at all?
• do they help or confuse you?
6. Do you use a presenter, pointer, stick or any other presentation tool?
• or do you press the arrow keys on the keyboard to get to the next slide?

These are all issues to consider when delivering a presentation and I will dedicate much detailed attention to these in future posts.

Have a good week!