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Almost anything that is worth doing will be worth doing right. That is certainly true for succeeding at improving your presentation skills. Planning carefully beforehand, getting advice and following it, might make a major difference in your chances for achievement or failure. If you don’t do it right, the end results tend to be very disastrous. You could wind up embarrassing yourself, and in many cases cutting short your career advancement.

Allow me to share three great tips to avert that kind of failure, and succeed.

First of all, you need to understand presentation structure.

You will need to create a strong introduction, body paragraphs and powerful conclusion because it aids in preventing confusion on the part of the audience. Neglecting to get this done may make your presentation impossible to follow. You want to give the audience a road map of where you are in the presentation. Please avoid the error of disregarding or slighting this important step!

Secondly, you want to limit public speaking fear and nervousness.

Almost as essential as needing to understand presentation structure while you’re attempting to succeed at presentation skills will likely be you want to limit public speaking fear and nervousness. I’m letting you know, this is not something to overlook. It can help to make your presentation go from being mediocre and slightly boring to powerful and exciting, and everyone involved in presentation skills wants that.

Lastly, you want to concentrate on improving your body language. By some estimates, 65% of a message is transmitted by body language

And ultimately, when you’re dealing with presentation skills, just be sure to breath and learn to manage your own anxieties. This would assist with having a confident delivery, that’s an essential part of any effective presentation. Should you not, you could possibly come across as someone who is not an expert on the presentation topic — and I think we will agree that would not be a good thing!

As stated earlier, should you aspire to succeed at presentation skills, then you definitely will need to steer clear of the kinds of mistakes that might mean you wind up embarrassing yourself, or perhaps cutting short your career advancement. What you really want is to focus on your weakest area of the three areas mentioned above. You can easily attain presentation mastery by carefully pursuing the three steps outlined above.

How to Design Your English Presentation

Part of any Business English Course that deals with presentations will look at how to design or develop your presentation. How do you start? What do you put into it? In a Business English course this is the method or process that I would advise my students to use when developing their presentation. The method that I suggest using is to start at the result that you want at the end of your presentation and work your way backwards to the introduction. This should help you to develop a concise and effective presentation that does not contain unnecessary information. This is not a new idea, but it is one that I taught my students before actually finding it in an English presentations text.

What result do you want from your Presentation?

At the same time as you decide on the result you want you should also decide on who your audience will be and what to write for them. As well, decide what you want them to know or do after participating in your presentation. After this start with what is the end result you want from your presentation. Is it just an information presentation where you want to impart data or knowledge, do you want them to make a particular decision, or do you want them to make a purchase from you. There are other results you may want, so start with the end result that you want from your presentation. As I mentioned and as you probably noticed we will be working backwards in designing the English presentation.

Key Points for Your Presentation Result

When you have determined the result that you want you then need to think about what are the 3 or 4 key things you want them to know or think about in order to get the result. The key points should come easily after you know what you want to happen after the end of the presentation. These will be the points you bring up in your summary so that they are fresh in the minds of your audience. By doing this you will limit the amount of information that you will need to add into the presentation. You don’t want to use the shotgun approach when designing an English presentation.

Information needed to Support Your Presentation’s Key Points?

After you have decided on the key point that you need it will be easy to decide or determine what information or data you need to support these key points. Because you know the data that you need to include, you will not need to include excess information, thereby shortening your presentation and making it more concise.

The Finish of Your Freshly Designed Presentation

You have designed most of your English presentation by deciding on your conclusion or result, determining your key points, and adding information to support your key points. Now you only need to work on the introduction to your presentation. You know the end result or conclusion, you have your key points, and your presentation now contains the data or information needed to support the key points. So you can use these to write your Outline and Introduction, which should now be a ‘piece of cake’ (easy).

I would advocate using the process outlined above because it should make designing your presentation easier. It may seem to be against common sense by starting at the end and working your way to the beginning, but the end result will be a more focused English presentation which gets to the point without all the fluffy padding. It will be less boring, and it will contain less useless information. I hope you enjoyed this brief look at how to design an English presentation.