How to Measure the Business Impact of Presentation Skills
Most people agree that presentation skills are important. But when it comes to the business world, one question keeps coming up: “Can you actually measure the impact of presentation skills?”…
Spanish woman making a mistake covering her face with her hand.
What Spanish Managers Need to Know to Present Better in English
Giving a presentation in English when it’s not your first language can be quite a challenge. When presenting in any language, you’re not just sharing information, you’re performing in front…
Using a hook in your business presentation Business Learning Solutions
Using a hook in your business presentation
If you’ve been on a presentation skills training course you’ll have been taught that you should use a ‘hook’ to open your presentation.´ Let’s first clarify what we mean by…
Eliminate your nerves when presenting in English - Janice Haywood coach
How to eliminate your nerves in an instant when presenting
Is it eliminate your nerves when presenting possible? I can tell you that it absolutely is! Yes, we all get nervous about giving a presentation, it’s normal. It’s because we…
How to Deal with Resistance from a Training Group Business Learning Solutions
How to Deal with Resistance from a Training Group
Do you have to give training in your company to implement new systems and processes? If so, you may come across resistance from some people who are reluctant to change…
How to overcome your fear of presenting
How to overcome your fear of presenting
One of the greatest fears that all of us have is speaking in front of many people. But where do these fears come from? More specifically, what is the thinking…
10 ways to make your presentation more impactful
10 ways to make your presentation more impactful
Whatever language you are presenting in, it’s extremely important that your presentation has impact. If your presentation has impact, the audience will pay full attention to you and your message…
Presenting in English: how to handle questions
Presenting in English: how to handle questions
For many people who have to give presentations in English, the most nerve-wracking part is when they have to answer questions. The nervousness doesn’t come from the fear that they won’t know the answer, it comes from thinking that they won’t understand the question in English and will also have problems answering it in a grammatically correct way. At the end of the day, you can control the content of your presentation in terms of what YOU say, but you can’t control the questions the audience will ask you.
To face “question time” as confidently as possible, follow these tips: (more…)
Eight tips on how to deliver a presentation in English
Eight tips on how to deliver a presentation in English
In the previous post we talked about how to prepare a presentation in English to give you maximum confidence; the more effectively you prepare, the more confident you will feel.
Here we’re going to consider what you must think about when you are actually in front of your audience – how to effectively deliver your presenation in English
- Outline to your audience how your presentation will be structured: e.g. I will first explain…/Then I will…/After that…/Finally… Clear structuring is fundamental and really makes the difference between a professional and a weak presentation. You must keep your audience with you all the way through your talk and you do this by effective structuring. They need to know where you are in the presentation at any one time and they need to know what is coming next
- Speak slowly and with pauses: It may not seem natural to you, but it will seem very natural to your audience. To sound professional in anypresentation, we must speak 20% slower than we do in normal conversations.
- Use longer pauses to give you and your audience time to assimilate the message: the use of pauses with a facial expression of confidence is very powerful and professional. Practise this tip and USE IT (more…)