You don't have the slides to fall back upon, allowing you to lazily read them to your audience. Such recitation is only suitable if you are analysing the text itself closely.įurther to that last point, having only single or few key words on your slides forces you to know your subject and what to say on each point. The speaker then tells the audience what the speaker wants them to hear, or directs the audience's attention to an image displayed on the screen.Īside from not splitting the audience's attention between speaker and loads of text on-screen, having few words on your slides means that you are not tempted yourself to read your presentation to the audience. This means that the audience's attention is focused on the speaker. Excellent speakers rarely have more than a few words bullet pointed on their slides. What background / foreground things do presenters do that make their presentations flawless and natural?Ī natural presentation comes from practice, and lots of it.įrom practice comes confidence. (Its one thing to know everything on your topic its another thing to present that 'everything'!) I know rehearsal is important but I wonder how could anyone remember so much in a nervous situation. I hate to think that they had memorised their speech notes but some of the presentations went for more than an hour. (The advantages of not looking at their notes too much was that they could maintain eye contact and could use very interesting slides that were not crammed with the dot points of their speeches.) Some of them used powerpoint slides but were not reading from the slides they were just talking on the points and they had so much to say on each point that I felt they could not do it without notes, but they were not even looking at their notes most of the time. Sure, they had the occasional mispronunciations or awkward pauses but they spoke with authority and confidence. I have been attending a number of academic / professional conferences recently and one thing that really awed me was the flawless and natural way in which the speakers presented on their topics.
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