Business: What makes a great presenter?

What makes a great presenter?

Written by Graham Jones

Every day millions of people around repparttar

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audience. The truth is, most presenters are just plain average – and quite a few are simply dreadful. So, how can you move from being a run of repparttar 103358

mill presenter to being fantastic?

Every one of us has repparttar 103359 ability to be truly great as a presenter. There is nothing particularly special about repparttar 103360 people who stand out as brilliant. However, repparttar 103361 average presenter is usually holding themselves back, doing things which prevent them from being good.

At every training course run by The Presentation Business we spend some time debating what makes a great presenter. This inevitably leads to a discussion of what repparttar 103362 bad presenters do wrong. Having kept a record of what these sessions considered I have been able to produce a definitive list of what to do to make your presentations great.

The overwhelming conclusion of all these discussions is: content is NOT important. Of repparttar 103363 hundreds of people who have debated what makes a great presenter not a single person has mentioned repparttar 103364 value of repparttar 103365 content. Your audiences are likely to think in just repparttar 103366 same way. They are NOT interested in what you are saying, but repparttar 103367 way you are saying it. If you say it well, that appears to make repparttar 103368 content interesting. But what this means is, if you concentrate your planning and preparation on content, you are likely only to be average.

The most important factor for great presenters according to our discussions is that they make a personal connection to every member of repparttar 103369 audience. This means lots of eye contact, liberal use of repparttar 103370 words ‘I’ and ‘you, and that everything you deliver is done form repparttar 103371 audience’s perspective. This means you need to know a great deal about your audience in advance so you can do this.

The connection you make between yourself and your audience seems to be enhanced by repparttar 103372 widespread use of examples. Our discussions at training courses show that your audience expects you to ‘show’ rather than ‘tell’. In other words, you don’t need to give them ‘messages’ and ‘content’; instead you need to give them lots of examples and they will work out repparttar 103373 message for themselves.

A further element of this aspect of being a great presenter is that these examples should always include you. Your audience wants to know about your thoughts, your feelings and your opinions. They want to share your experiences. If all you deliver is content, this does not help your audience. They could get your content from a book, a web site or some other non human contact. The fact that you are presenting to them means your audience wants to hear from you personally.

Your audience also wants you to be a living person. They don’t want to hear from a statue. In other words you need to be active. The discussions held at our training courses show time and time again that presenters who move are repparttar 103374 one who gain repparttar 103375 most attention. If you think about this, it is quite understandable. In social situations we are active – we use gestures, we move our bodies and change posture. To avoid doing so when presenting makes you look abnormal and this serves to disconnect you. There is also a big advantage to moving – it helps reduce nerves when presenting.

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