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A speaker giving a presentation to a room full of people Simple Ways to Improve Your Presentation Skills

If you want to improve your presentation skills, then whenever you attend a presentation, pay attention not just to the content, but also to the delivery of that content. In doing so, note what strikes you as positive or negative about the presentation. Then strive to emulate the positives and avoid the negatives.

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Naomi Karten
Woman at a podium giving a presentation How to Manage a Challenging Audience When You’re Giving a Presentation

Most audiences will be courteous when you’re giving a presentation. But it can be a challenge to face customers, senior managers, or even coworkers who persistently disagree with you, constantly interrupt you, treat you rudely, or otherwise disrupt your presentation. Here are some ways to cope without losing your cool.

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Naomi Karten
Person giving a presentation When Giving Presentations, Weed Out the Wordiness

Sitting through a presentation that features text-filled slide after boring slide can be an eye-straining, headache-inducing experience. If you really want to engage your audience, opt for more photos and graphs, limit the bullet points, and make your presentation about more than what's on your slides.

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Naomi Karten
The Best Advice for Not Giving a Boring Presentation

Presentation flaws can turn off your listeners. Eliminating content you view as boring, presenting with enthusiasm, minimizing the use of text, and not reading your slides verbatim can make all the difference between whether your audience enjoys your presentation or spends the time nodding off.

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Naomi Karten
The Benefits of Public Speaking for Testers

If you're a tester and you've been avoiding public speaking opportunities because you don't think it applies to your work, you don't know what you would talk about, or you're just nervous to present in front of people, you should change your mind. Public speaking has several benefits for testers.

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Mukesh Sharma
Handle Audience Questions Effectively in Your Next Presentation

One of the biggest presentation fears many professionals have is being unable to answer questions from the audience. But with some practice beforehand, you may find that addressing questions is one of the most energizing parts of presenting. Read these tips to get yourself prepared for your Q&A.

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Naomi Karten
Nervous about Your Big Presentation? Don’t Try to Relax—Get Excited

For years, people who experienced anxiety before being in the spotlight were advised to try to just keep themselves calm. But new research from the American Psychological Association suggests that getting excited before a presentation is more effective for decreasing anxiety than trying to relax.

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Beth Romanik
What to Say (or Not Say) When Presenting to a Foreign Audience

Naomi Karten gives us the rundown on how to give a presentation to a foreign audience. When the native language of the audience differs from yours, the idioms and colloquialisms in your presentation may not be understood, so it’s important to avoid such speech patterns.

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Naomi Karten