4. The Mirror is Your Friend. Even after you've practiced in front of an audience, continue to rehearse in front of greatest critic of all, yourself in mirror. The mirror is a WONDERFUL if underused presentation practice tool. It will allow you to see and hear your delivery live and make decisions about how to enhance your style. Remember, when it comes to practicing your presentation, mirror really is your friend.

5. Practice From Beginning to End Without Stopping. Practice all way through presentation without stopping-even if you make a mistake. Most presenters have a tendency to stop their practice each time they make a mistake. Besides reinforcing this negative practice, when you continually stop and start over you get very good at beginning of presentation, but can't deliver an effective conclusion because you've rarely made it to end of presentation. As second most remembered part of your presentation, it is important to have a strong, well-rehearsed close.

6. Practice With Your Props. If you are using visual aids such as a PowerPoint slide show, make sure you practice with your slides. Visual aids of any kind add another layer of complexity to a presentation and require practice to use effectively. Practicing with your slides will help prepare you for things that inevitably go wrong and help you avoid unprofessional behaviors such as not knowing how to advance your slide show or how to put slide show in proper view for display.

7. Do it One More Time. After you feel you've done it well in practice and are happy with your performance, practice one more time to make sure your success wasn't just a happy accident. All in all, depending upon you and your content, you may need to practice your presentation delivery out loud 5 to 10 times. Yes, that's right, you might have to practice out loud up to 10 times, but don't worry, your audience's thundering applause will make effort worthwhile!

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