Preparing your presentation means that your emotional support dog will look healthier than this good boy.

Preparing for your presentation serves several important purposes:

·??????It boosts your self-confidence.

·??????It reduces the chances of something going wrong.

·??????It creates an impression of you as a competent, diligent person.

·??????It makes it easier for you to give a polished, professional presentation.

Where we can’t look in to a crystal ball and identify all the things that could go wrong, by preparing we effectively eliminate the obvious potential errors that can turn what would be an excellent speech into a mess.

By taking the time to prepare, you can look ahead to the presentation and get an impression for how it should unfold. It will also allow you to take into consideration what difficulties may arise, and have a strategy for dealing with each of them.

This does not mean that delivering a presentation can’t be an enjoyable process. In fact, the right amount and the right kind of preparation can ensure that the presentation is enjoyable, informative, and useful both for you and for your audience.

Sometimes a lot of preparation goes into a presentation, taking into account the way the speaker moves, sounds and sees the audience, as well as the visual aids the speaker will use during the course of the presentation.

A great deal of preparation should ensure that things go smoothly, but the level of presentation needs to be matched by the quality of preparation. Think for a moment how you would react if you had written a 30-minute presentation which called for frequent reference to a visual slideshow, and when you arrived at the venue you found that they did not have a projector.

It is essential that you take nothing for granted when seeking to deliver a presentation, because it will be you who is in the unenviable position of explaining and dealing with any problems that happen during the live presentation.

As wonderful as your speech may be, it will be experienced slightly differently by however many people hear it. ?All of these people may take something slightly different away from the room, so if you have absolutely concrete points that you would insist on them remembering, ensure that these are available in a handout.

Remember, by preparing we effectively eliminate the obvious potential errors that can turn what would be an excellent speech into a mess.

Our flagship program, “Presenting Your Best Self: the 12 Essential Skills of Authentic Communication, addresses effective preparation as an integral part of the success equation.

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