Gilda Bonanno provides three essential tips for delivering powerful presentations: focus on your audience, practice extensively, and use slides wisely if needed. Engaging the audience's interest and conveying a clear message is crucial. Effective practice involves vocalizing your speech in a realistic setting to enhance delivery.

1. Powerful Presentations:
3 Quick Tips for Making a Great Speech
by Gilda Bonanno
Presentation Skills Coach
& Professional Speaker

2. Whether
you are
presenting
on a large
stage

3. Or a
small one

4. Your goal is to be:
Engaging
Effective
Powerful

5. Tip #1
 Focus on your
audience

6. What is your message?
Why should the audience care?

7. Your audience is tuned to station
WIIFM “What’s In It For Me?”

8. Tip #2
 Practice,
practice, practice

9. Sitting at your desk thinking about what
you’d like to say…
is NOT practice

10. Sitting at
your
desk
flipping
through
your
slides…
is NOT
practice

11. Practice
is saying
the
words
out
loud…
in as
close to
the real
setting
as
possible

12. Tip #3
 If you must use
slides, use them
wisely

13. NOT

14. PowerPoint
is only a tool

15. A picture is worth a thousand words…
or bullet points of text…

16. #1: Focus on your audience
#2: Practice, practice,
practice
#3: If you must use slides,
use them wisely
3 Quick Tips

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