This document provides tips for giving a good presentation. It recommends being passionate and connecting with the audience by being enthusiastic and honest. The presenter should focus on the audience's needs and make them feel captivated rather than captive. The core message should be clear, simple, progressive and consistent. Eye contact and smiling at the audience is important. The presentation should start strongly without wasted time on introductions. Compelling stories should be told to engage the audience. Voice should be used effectively through volume, clarity and variety. Relaxation and breathing can reduce nervousness. A leave-behind item can remind the audience later.

1. How You Can Make
A Good Presentation
Mahfuj Hasan

2. Be Passionate and Connect with
your Audience
It’s hard to be relaxed and be yourself when you’re nervous.
Be
ENTHUSIASTIC
And HONEST,
and the audience
will respond.

3. Focus on Audience’s Needs
Your audience should feel CAPTIVATED
NOT CAPTIVE

4. Concentrate On Your Core
Message
Content Should Be
• Clear
• Simple
• Progressive
• Consistent

5. Smile and Make Eye Contact with
your Audience
Your audience
needs to see you
as well as your
slides.

6. Start Strongly
They will give you a few minutes’ grace in
which to entertain them. So don’t waste that on
explaining who you are. Start by entertaining
them from beginning.
President Obama giving a speech on his energy
policies at Prince Georges Community College in Largo

7. Tell Compelling Stories
Think about what
story you are trying to
tell your audience,
and create your
presentation to tell it.

8. Use your Voice Effectively
Volume - to be heard.
Clarity - to be understood.
Variety - to add interest.

9. Relax, Breathe and Smile !
• Make your gestures open and confident, and
move naturally around the stage, and among
the audience too, if possible.

10. Create a Worthy Leave-Behind
Or
People are busy and no matter how much you
impressed them they will turn their attentions elsewhere