Regardless of their present level of skill or experience, every presenter can improve their performance. Indeed, if you are a professional speaker or seminar presenter, you should continually be re-assessing what you do and how you do it. This article provides some effective presentation tips that will help you to fine tune your presentations and speeches to make them even better.

Personally, I review every presentation I deliver and I take feedback very seriously as it enables me to adjust and fine tune future events to make each one more successful than the one before. I am continually assessing my own performance, updating information, quotes and case studies, and evaluating my own attitude and style of delivery. After all why do something unless it is to the very best of your ability?

It’s not rocket science really, it’s just common sense. The challenge with common sense thought in my experience is that it may make sense but it is not always that common. This is not because people aren’t smart enough to know the difference, it is because so many people are manipulated by their emotions and usually those that stop them from taking action or doing the obvious.

In other words, people spend a great deal of their time avoiding doing those things that they know they should do quite simply because they don’t want to do them. It is called emotional incompetence and it accounts for a great deal of human failure and mediocrity.

To become a good speaker is relatively simple but it is not easy because it means doing certain things that lead to the desired outcome. That outcome can only be achieved through practice, patience, planning and performing or speaking as often as possible.

Below are some ideas that you might like to consider. They will lead to increased opportunities to speak or present and they will provide you with more than enough practice to become a very competent presenter.

1. Mix with other speakers, trainers and presenters by joining organizations like Toast Masters. Offer to assist them where it may be appropriate and do it for nothing if you have to.

2. Create your own network by contacting everyone you know and enlisting their help in developing opportunities to speak.

3. Join networking organizations to promote your skills and develop a really great one minute presentation

4. Seek out referrals and recommendations from the people that you already know

5. Offer your skills for low fees to start with and increase them as you become more in demand.

6. Create products like audio programs and e-books and promote them when and wherever you speak.

7. Create collaborative relationships with others whose skills, services or products compliment your own. Find ways of adding value to them as well.

8. Get yourself an agent

9. Write a book

10. Get online and start building links, associations, contacts, referrals and opportunities

11. Get yourself accepted by a speaker’s bureau if you can. This is not always easy and most of them require you to have a DVD of your work

12. Make sure that you video as many of your presentations as you can and turn it into a promo of your work

13. Stay positive and remember that the more time and effort you invest in yourself now the greater and the sooner the rewards will come

14. There is an old saying in selling, ‘never forget a customer, but never let a customer forget you.’ Make sure that when ANYONE you know thinks of presentations yours is the first name they think of.

15. Keep fine tuning your presentations. Keep them fresh and up to date. All speakers are only as good as their last presentation!

16. Above all remember (most people just cannot but into this philosophy) that your will ALWAYS get back in proportion to what you give, so start giving to others and adding value to them and they will want to do the same for you

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