Presentation skills are very important in organizations and leaders make presentations all the time to board members, employees, community leaders, groups of customers, etc. It is possible to make or break an organization from a presentation and so top leadership should strive to have the best presentation skills.

List and prioritize goals

Listing and prioritizing the top goals that you want to accomplish with your audience is the most important of all presentation skills. You may think you know what you want to accomplish or what you want to say in your presentation, but if you’re not clear with yourself and others, it is very easy for your audience to completely miss the point of your presentation.

Be clear

Being clear about who your audience is and about why is it important for them to be in the meeting is important since members of your audience always want to know right away why they were the ones chosen to be in the presentation. You should therefore make sure that your presentation makes this clear to them from the start.

Design openings and closings

This is one of the most neglected of the important presentation skills. The presenter should design a brief opening, about 5% to 10% of the total time presentation time, to present goals for the presentation, clarify the benefits of the presentation and to explain the overall layout of the presentation. A closing should also be designed and it should also be about 5% to 10% of the total time presentation time, covering a summary of all key points from the presentation.

Keep time

This is one of the most important of the negotiation skills, but many people think that the longer their presentation takes the more its effect will be. Well, this is not so because people often get tired when a presentation goes on for longer than they had expected.

Effective delivery

Effective delivery means that you observe presentation skills such as maintaining eye contact with the audience so that they can feel like you are talking to them personally, varying the speech to prevent monotony and making sure that the audience doesn’t notice you looking at your notes for too long.

Other presentation skills include setting a clear tone such as hopefulness or teamwork among others from the onset and setting aside a Q&A session after the presentation.

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Exposure is the first step for your MyVideoTalk presentation. You have to expose your products in front of targeted customers. Attract them towards you and increase their curiosity. Make your prospects familiar with the applications and then schedule an appointment.

There are many different methods for showcasing your MyVideoTalk presentation. You just have to select a type that is suitable for your prospects. Promote the well-liked applications of the package in front of the corporate professionals. Some popular features are:

• Live My Video Talk
• Online prerecorded broadcast
• One on One MyVideoTalk presentation
• MyVideo Webmail.

Where most MyVideoTalk Sales Reps can fall short

Promoting your MyVideoTalk presentation upfront works a little, however it takes away from the value that YOU bring to the table. You need to position yourself as a leader and give people value upfront and then expose them to your MyVideoTalk presentation. This may seem backwards from what your upline is teaching you, however I’d look at the results of what you’re currently doing and ask yourself two questions:

1. Am I doing everything my upline says and seeing little to no results?

2. Can my Team (downline) duplicate my success?

If the answer is No to any of those questions, then it’s time you learn the truth about marketing these types of businesses online. Put yourself in the forefront, attract leads to YOU, expose them to your MyVideoTalk presentation on the back end, and watch your business grow. If you want to know the ins and outs of this, then check out the resource box below.

Temporarily switching to a black display or slide is an effective way in PowerPoint to change focus, add audience interaction or to handle discussions or content not related to the current slide in a presentation. Why bother? You don’t want to leave your audience distracted by the slide in front of them especially if the presentation or conversation has changed. Plus, a black display quickly signals a change in topic or material.

Explore the 5 ways to work with black slides in PowerPoint:

1. Presentation Remote
2. Projector Remote
3. Quick Slide Show Keyboard Shortcuts
4. Create a Black Slide
5. End with a Black Slide

Presentation Remote

The easiest way to switch to a black display is with a presentation remote. If you use one, practice using the button to go to a black screen so you are less likely to accidentally hit this button when you don’t want it.

Projector Remote

If a presentation remote is not available, you may have access to the projector remote control. This is more likely for smaller or internal presentations when the A/V equipment is not so tightly controlled as with conference sessions or large groups. Many projector remotes have an option for “Black Screen”. Also, practice turning this feature on and off. Do not choose “Standby” as it may take several minutes to “wake-up” the projector from this mode.

Quick Keyboard Shortcuts to a Black Display

While running your PowerPoint slide show, easily switch to black by pressing the letter B (for black) or press the [Period] key while running your slide show. Just press B again to restore the presentation.

You can also press the letter W (for white) to toggle/switch to a white display. A white display, however, is often too bright in many presentation environments.

Create a Black Slide

As with other parts of a presentation, you may also want to build in or choreograph your interaction and other transitions in addition to the slide show. Do this by adding a black slide at the point where you want to temporarily change focus.

One advantage of a black slide over just turning the screen black is that, when you continue with your presentation, the next slide or topic will display instead of the slide you were previously displaying. Plus, a black slide may “jog” your memory about planned transitions.

To create a black slide in PowerPoint:

1. Create a slide with a Blank Layout.
2. Pick on the Design tab > Format Background.
3. Click Hide Background graphics.
4. Choose Solid fill and pick a black from the Color options.

End with a Black Slide

Another way to work with a black slide in a PowerPoint presentation is to choose whether or not you want to end your presentation with a black slide. Although this is a default in PowerPoint, you can quickly verify or change this option.

To set the option to end a slide show with a black slide:

1. File > Options.
2. Select the Advanced category. Under the Slide Show section, check or uncheck End with black slide and OK to continue.

Bonus Tip:

To avoid moving too far at the end of a PowerPoint presentation and accidentally exiting out of a slide show, I like to add a few “buffer” slides I don’t plan to show. If I do, however, click too many times with my presentation remote, the extra slide will display. Good choices for these ending slides include a simple slide with your company logo or website or an appropriate photo.

Finally, as with any presentation, make sure to practice your presentation (along with planned interaction) so that you can effectively and successfully deliver your message.

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