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[moutonoir]

When you are about to give a presentation, Practice is the single most important factor contributing to a good presentation. A poorly presented talk reflects upon both you and your attitude towards the material and audience, so always make time for practice runs.

Be sure to practice your speech more than just a few times so that you are sure about what you’re going to say. Before you practice, read through your speech to eliminate any rough spots beforehand. Try to seek some feedback to make sure you’re on the right track and not practicing all the wrong parts

As you practice, remember to keep eye contact with imaginary viewers and not to look down at your notes when you don’t need to. Try to keep the practice session as much like the real speech as possible.

Sometimes it helps to practice in front of a mirror so that you can view yourself as you speak. Stand where you can see the reflection of your head and your feet easily. Try to find a relaxed position to stand in. As you speak, you can look in the mirror and watch for any odd or distracting movements you make.

You can also try using a tape recorder to record your voice as you speak. This allows you to listen to your tone and speed and notice when there’s any distracting verbal clutter.

Make sure you practice all parts of your speech equally. If you just practice from the beginning until you reach a problem, the beginning of the speech will sound good, but the end will not. When you run through the speech, try to run through the whole speech so that you practice all of it.

[contactskn]

Dear friend you have given real good tips and obviously highlighting practice its really true to say that practicing anything continuously in the proper way will make you perfect in that particular activity as such. Sometimes these practices if directed towards the wrong direction will result in very bad final results, we usually see such incidents in our day to day life is'nt it. 

[webishqiptar]

It is a common phrase that in general to achieve something you need to practice, practice and again practice. Or something similar is that you need 1% talent and 99% practice.

[k_nitin_r]

Hi!

@moutonoir

I would like to add that most people who use slides during presentations often put too much material on the slides. Others literally put up their entire speech on the slides. Still others, put up so much on a single slide by reducing the font size that it's hard to read anything at all. Equally bad are the ones who use a dark background and a dark font, which may look good on a computer screen, but is unreadable when trying to read off a projector's screen. At times, animation on the slides can be distracting too.

Looking for the above common mistakes in your own slides can help improve the use of the presentation slides as visual aids and can help in delivering a better overall presentation.