This document provides tips for becoming a rockstar presenter by overcoming the fear of public speaking. It discusses knowing your objective and audience, familiarizing yourself with the venue, organizing your content, building rapport, opening and closing strongly. Specific tips include focusing on what you want your audience to take away, acknowledging your audience's varied backgrounds, being aware of how the room could impact formality, avoiding late morning and afternoon slots, limiting main points, opening with a story, quote, question or statistic, and concluding by repeating key points and asking for questions. The overall message is that preparation, understanding your objective and audience, and using engaging techniques can help make you a great presenter.

1. How to
Become A
Rockstar
Presenter

2. It’s your first day at work
and you have a big
presentation to make…

3. You will most probably be
feeling…

4. A

5. B

6. A
Read On if You
Have Selected

7. 80%
special
of the population get
butterflies, get anxious,
don’t sleep much the night
before a public speaking
assignment.

8. Here are
some tips to
help you
overcome this
FEAR

9. KNOW YOUR
OBJECTIVE
Tip # 1

10. PRESENTATION
Whyyouaremakingyour

11. Focus on what you want
to achieve and what you
want your audience to
take away with them.

12. This puts you in a much
better position to make
strategic decisions
about the design and tone
of your presentation.

13. KNOW YOUR
audience
Tip # 2

14. Your audience will have
varied experiences,
interests and levels of
knowledge.

15. As a presenter you will
need to acknowledge,
prepare for and
respond accordingly.

16. If you fail to consider your
audience’s needs, you will
fail to appeal to their
interest and
imagination.

17. Familiarize
yourself with the
Venue
Tip # 3

18. Where will you be making
your presentation?
What will be the room like?
How important will be the
role of physical conditions?

19. A large lecture theatre might create a formal
atmosphere, a smaller room might create a less formal
tone.

20. Timing is
important
Tip # 4

21. Different hours of the day
results in different
responses.

22. Two notoriously bad
hours are late morning
and late afternoon.

23. In both of these
situations, it is difficult
keep the audience
interested for long.

24. Organize Your
Content
Tip # 5

25. Don’t present more than
three main points in a
ten minute presentation.

26. Always allow time for an
adequate introduction
and conclusion.

27. Use your imagination
while presenting factual
data, points of detail or an
explanation of processes.

28. Develop a linear flow. Link
statements, send signals, and
highlight the next point in
your argument by linking to
earlier ideas.

29. Build
Rapport
Tip # 5

30. Talk about things to
which your audience can
relate. Your audience
must relate to you to
build rapport.

31. Don’t pretend to be
perfect. It’s OK to sound
like a human being.

32. Open with Something
Interesting
Tip # 6

33. Opening with a story
helps you to be
conversational and
establish rapport with
your audience.

34. Opening with a quote
helps to generate interest.

35. Opening with a question
creates curiosity and
jump-starts the thought
process.

36. Use of relevant statistics
is another method to
make your opening
interesting.

37. Conclude
Strong
Tip # 7

38. Inform your audience
that you are about to
conclude.

39. Repeat and emphasize
your main points.

40. Ask for questions
gracefully.

41. Hope you found these tips to
be useful.
Now go out and present like a
ROCKSTAR…

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43. Thank You