Hi, it’s Carl from PresentationExpressions. Today, I’m gonna teach you about using eye contact in a presentation.
But why is this important?
Well, have you ever experienced talking to someone who didn’t look you in the eyes while they were talking to you? It was probably really uncomfortable or it made you feel like the other person didn’t care about you. And that’s precisely why you have to learn proper eye contact techniques.
Eye contact with your audience will help your audience connect to you and you to them. It tells them you are focused on speaking to them. But the other important thing about eye contact is when you’re listening to someone ask you a question during or after your presentation.
So I’m gonna talk about two things:
Number one, eye contact when presenting.
And number two, eye contact when listening to a question from the audience. (more…)
Hi, it’s Carl from PresentationExpressions. (This is a full transcript of this week’s video) In this video, I’m going to teach you how to present data without using a table.
Why is this important?
Because if your job or schooling involves research you’ll probably have to present some sort of statistical information. And one way that you’ve been doing that has probably been with tables. Something with some rows and columns neatly labelled and copied and pasted into a PowerPoint slide.
Well, the problem with that is that YOU may be very familiar with that data, but your audience won’t be.
Even if they’re your peers, during a presentation, they won’t have much time to fully understand what you’ve been working on for weeks or months or more. And if you have a long presentation, there’s no way they will remember the data you had in a table they saw 30 minutes ago. The other major problem is that tables are kinda ugly.
So, let’s fix that problem… (more…)
We’re always happy to get questions from you, and we usually answer your questions in the comments or by email. But we don’t often make videos to directly address your questions, so…
We’re going to do that today.
We got a message from Soul, someone in the PresentationExpressions community. And Soul, wrote… (more…)
Have you ever had to give a BIG presentation? You know, one that made you all nervous and excited at the same time? Did you know how to prepare for that big presentation?
If you give presentations on a smaller scale, like for your small business, those can be considered BIG presentations because they could have a large impact on you and your business.
Pat Flynn, an Internet entrepreneur who blogs about and teaches how to succeed online at http://www.smartpassiveincome.com, gave the biggest presentation of his life as a speaker at Blog World Expo 2011. (more…)
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Last week, we taught you how to start a presentation with an attention grabbing question or statement. We also said we would teach you how to end a presentation that you started with the attention grabbing question or statement. So, here we go… How to end a presentation in a memorable way. (more…)
Hi, it’s Carl from PresentationExpressions. Today, I’m gonna teach you about using eye contact in a presentation.
