Why Your Presentation Needs to Flow: The Secret to Keeping Your Audience Engaged” 2 reasons why your presentation needs to flow Flow keeps your audience with you: A presentation that flows smoothly is more likely to keep your audience interested and engaged. When there are abrupt transitions or disjointed sections, the audience may lose focus or become lost and confused. Flow enhances credibility: A presentation that flows well demonstrates that the presenter has put effort into organizing and structuring their ideas. This communicates credibility and professionalism. It’s one way of saying “you are important to me” in a presentation. When your audience feels your commitment to them, they will want… Read More
Continue ReadingPros Flow – one thing common to great presentations.
One way to polish your presentation to a professional level is to work on your flow. Like a great conversation or a great movie, a great presentation has a flow. So many presentations go like this: TALK, STOP, CLICK, TALK, STOP, CLICK. The speaker talks, then stops talking, presses the slide advance button, waits for the next slide to appear and then begins speaking again. Each slide is treated almost independently from the rest of the presentation, there isn’t any flow. Maintaining a smooth pace throughout a presentation helps keep an audience engaged. When you think about it, a presentation could have dozens of these TALK STOP CLICKs. Each of… Read More
Continue ReadingTwo Magical Words
Two magical words that you need in your sales presentation. Every time I do sales presentation coaching, I ask a someone to give me an example. It usually goes like this. They have a good product or service and want to talk about how it works or how great it is. They will say it does this, we provide that, and I will say “for example”. The magical words “for example” should be coming out of your mouth too! Giving your audience a real example is a magical communication tool because an example can: Show proof that the product/service does what you say it does. Connect the audience to the… Read More
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