Top 10 Presentation Style Tips from Nick Hill of <a>Binary Vision NLP</a> as given at the Dec 17th 2009 <a>proNet business networking meeting in West Yorkshire</a>.

1. Top 10 Presentation Style Tips
1. Physical Set Up
Create a stance from which you feel comfortable and confident. Make adjustments to feet, shoulder, hands
and head position until you feel ʻin the right frame of mindʼ to deliver.
2. Use of non-verbal communication
Your personal communication is in the majority non-verbal. Be animated yet not over animated. Marking out
items in spacial locations makes it easy to identify with what you are discussing. One one hand........
3. Maintain eye contact
Maintaining eye contact enhances your connection with your audience. For those taking their first steps to
mastery, commit to looking at the audience hairline before committing to making progression towards full eye
contact.
4. Develop a language style that paints pictures
Scale up your language! Are you dynamic, very dynamic, extremely dynamic? Makes a difference doesnʼt it?
5. Utilisation of floor space
Moving around the floor, especially closer to your audience, brings them closer to you and enhances the
connection further. Be aware that excessive movement causes distraction in some instances.
6. The power of a ......... ʻpauseʼ
When presenting the important facts or asking rhetorical questions give your audience time to absorb your
points. Pausing also gives you chance to assess how your information was received. Did they nod in
agreement or do you need to prepare for a question?
7. Become a vocal chameleon
Ever witnessed one of the ʻmonotoneʼ presentations. Donʼt fall into the same bracket! Use your voice range to
add auditory interest to your delivery. A huge part of communication is ʻtonalityʼ so itʼs there to be utilised.
8. Highlight key words and phrases
Mark out the important words and phrases in your delivery with a different voice tone or non-verbal cue to “put
those words in italics” for your audience. Let your passion shine through and create the believeability factor.
9. Re-cap, Re-cap and Re-cap
Re-capping the important points re-emphaises those points in the minds of your audience. Re-capping also
allows your audience to re-connect with you as you ʻpaceʼ them into a series of statements they cannot
disagree with. We covered ʻxʼ, discussed ʻyʼ and spoke about ʻzʼ. Re-cap to re-connect your audience.
10. Prepare for the possible and control the controllable
What could possibly go wrong? What factors are in and out of your control? Thin about it and mentally deal
with it before the day so nothing can effect your performance!
These tips were brought to you by Nick Hill , Director and
Principal Trainer at Binary Vision, Leeds, UK, The organisation
committed to improving your personal performance in business.
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