Whether you’re presenting to a small team of people, a boardroom full of VIPs or hundreds, even thousands, in a large auditorium. Whether you’re on your own, using notes, reading an autocue, backed up by slides or video, there are simple techniques that can make your presentation work.

The point is to get your message across and, of course, to look and sound great.

After 30 years of helping hundreds of presenters, I thought it would be a good idea to share some of my top tips for effective presentations with you over the coming months. I’ve put together a set of 10; some tips you will know, others will sound deceptively simple, and some won’t.

We all need advice and help when it comes to presentations, as industrialist Sir George Jessel put it: “The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.”

My task is to ensure that when you do stand up… you sound great. Ready?

You can take a look at the tips on this site, or you can download them all as a PDF – it’s up to you.

And we now have a set of Top Tips that’ll help you take the ‘death’ out of PowerPoint. This is a series of tips in the same focused style that’ll help you make the most of your presentation slide deck.

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All the best