1. The document provides 8 steps for delivering a great presentation: be enthusiastic and passionate about the topic, create a hook to capture the audience early on, keep it concise to maintain attention spans, stay mobile to engage the audience, maintain eye contact and ask questions to make it conversational, add humor and personal touches, pay attention to lighting to keep people engaged, and don't ramble but stay aware of time and engagement.

1. 8 simple Steps to
Delivering a
Great Presentation
Minarets-O’Neals, California

2. nthusiasm and Passion to win ove

3. 1. If you are not excited to be presenting
on the topic you are sharing, nobody else
will want to hear it. Deliver the aspects that
you are passionate about and the audience
will respond to your enthusiasm. If you are
not naturally enthusiastic, utilize your acting
skills.

4. 2. Create a Hook.

5. 2. Every great presentation starts with a hook.
You have to capture the audience early on by
making them curious and making them feel
like what you are about to say is super important.
It could be a joke, a question, a story, or even
a prop but you have to hook your audience.

6. Don’t be long winded. Keep it concis

7. 3. People have short attention spans. Do not
take longer than you need to. The audience can
always ask you questions later. Keep it short
so your audience does not get bored.

8. 4. Stay Mobile.

9. 4. Don’t stay still. Move around the room. When
you are mobile, the audience pays more attention.
This also keeps your energy high and reinforces the
energy of your presentation.

10. 5. Engage Your Audience

11. 5. Maintain eye contact and make it feel like
a conversation. The crowd will pay more attention
if they feel like a part of the presentation. Ask
questions throughout and require your
audience to think.

12. 6. Add Humor and
Personal Touch

13. 6. Humor makes everything more engaging.
If you make the audience laugh, they are yours
for the taking. Also, making it personal is the
key to the hearts of the audience. Humor
and personal touch make it feel less like
a sales pitch and more like a fun time.

14. 7. Pay Attention to Lighting

15. 7. As much as possible, keep the lights on. It
is hard to have to be engaged in a dark room
where only one person is talking. To ensure
your presentation is not nap time, keep things
well lit.

16. 8. Don’t Ramble.

17. 8. Remember that just because you are entertained,
doesn’t mean the people listening to you are. Avoid
the one person who wants to talk to you in the audience
and make it about the whole group. Your time feels
faster than the audience because you are talking.
Keep a close eye on the time and the engagement
of the audience.