Top 10 Presentation Style Tips

Here, Nick Hill of Binary Vision NLP discusses how to present in style:

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 ‘in the right frame of mind’ 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 spatial locations makes it easy to identify with what you are discussing.

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 doesn’t 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 ……… ‘pause’
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 ‘monotone’ presentations. Don’t fall into the same bracket! Use your voice range to add auditory interest to your delivery. A huge part of communication is ‘tonality’ so it’s 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 believability factor.

9. Re-cap, Re-cap and Re-cap
Re-capping the important points re-emphasises those points in the minds of your audience. Re-capping also allows your audience to re-connect with you as you ‘pace’ them into a series of statements they cannot disagree with. We covered ‘x’, discussed ‘y’ and spoke about ‘z’. 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? Think about it and mentally deal with it before the day so nothing can effect your performance!

Nick Hill is Managing Director at Binary Vision NLP

nickhill (at) binaryvision (dash) nlp (dot) com www.binaryvision-nlp.com

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