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I’m sure that we’d all like to live the life of a rock star. To be on stage in front of thousands of adoring fans who are using their listening skills to hang on to our every word is everyone’s dream. However, the harsh reality of life is that for most of us the majority of “stage time” that we’re going to get will occur in a business setting. What can we do to make those presentations as powerful as possible?

It’s All About The Conclusion

In a business meeting your audience has come to hear you speak not because they want to be entertained or be wowed by your presentation tips, but rather because they want to learn from you. More often than not you’ve done some research or you’ve been involved in a project that they want to have more information on.

We all know about the importance of public speaking. What this means for you is that you’ve got to present to your audience the information that they want right off the bat. The last thing that you want to do is to make them have to sit through your entire presentation in order to get their hands on the piece of information that they came for.

That being said, why bother with the rest of your presentation after you’ve shared your conclusion with them? That’s pretty simple – they may not believe you! You reached your conclusion based on information that you gathered. Just presenting your conclusion is not enough for your audience. Instead, you now need to show them how you reached your conclusion.

Since they already know where you are going to end up because you’ve shared your conclusion with them, they are better able to follow the rest of your presentation. No, they may not all agree with your reasoning and they may not agree with your conclusion, but at least they’ll be able to follow along and understand how you reached it.

This is how discussions start. If your presentation can clearly communicate your conclusions and either get your audience to accept your conclusions or at least get them to start to discuss them, then you will have done your job as a speaker.

What Are Your Recommendations?

Just reaching a conclusion based on information that you’ve gathered is not enough. Remember that you are presenting in a business environment and a business is always looking for ways to move forward.

Your recommendations will be based on your conclusions. This means that your recommendations are going to be a key part of your presentation. I’m going to recommend that you hold off on presenting your recommendations until the end of your presentation.

Your goal here is going to be to open your speech with your conclusions, follow this up with an explanation of how you reached your conclusions, and then wrap things up with a presentation of your recommendations.

By making your recommendations be the last thing that you present, you’ll set the stage for the discussion that will occur after your speech is over. Your recommendations will be the last thing that was in your audience’s minds and they’ll either be able to accept them, or at the very least start a discussion about them.

What All Of This Means For You

A business presentation is the type of speech that most of us will find ourselves doing the majority of the time. Our audience will be showing up to learn what we know and we need to make sure that we present our information in a way that they get what they came for. This is one of the benefits of public speaking – we really can reach an entire group of people all at once.

The conclusions that you’ve reached based on the information that you’ve gathered or the project that you’ve been part of is what your audience wants to know right off the bat. After that you can share with them how you went about reaching your conclusions. Wrap things up by presenting your recommendations. This is the last thing that you want to leave them with.

I suspect that you’ve had to sit through a number of business presentations that were quite horrible. Don’t let this be your fate. Instead, give your audience what they came for right off the bat and then tell them what you want them to do. They may not agree with you, but at least they’ll remember what you said!

Presentation skills are an integral part of our daily lives. Every day, we end up speaking, or putting up some presentation for the people that we interact with. It is a misconception that such skills are needed only in the corporate world. Here are some other people who would require these skills, without even stepping into the corporate world.

Children in School

Children in school have to present something or the other in their school life. Be it in the classroom, or during some activity in the school. These presentations are very important in the broader scope of life, because these are one of the first times that the child interacts with an audience.

In some unfortunate cases, if the first few presentations and interactions do not go right, the child may have a stigma of not being able to present and have lesser social skills all their lives. Therefore, it is very important that the children have presentation skills or are trained in social interactions at an early age. The school is the best place and the child is at the perfect age to learn new things and understand new experiences.

Job Applicants

A job applicant is at a constant presentation, where he or she is presenting their skills so that they are hired by the company. Therefore, the job applicant would also require having some good presentation skills.

The world of looking for jobs is a vast world, and the employers have a lot of options for any one profile. Also, the interview takes place for a short time. Only the individuals who can show present their skills in the correct manner in this short time stand a chance of being hired by the company.

Therefore, a job applicant should have the basic skills to present himself or herself, which would allow them to present their professional skills, experience and ambitions within the limited timeframe.

Hobby Forums

We all have our hobbies. Hobbies haves support and interaction groups for people who pursue the same hobby. The hobby forums are normally headed by someone. This leader requires the basic presentation and speaking skills, so that he or she can make the hobby forum a success.

A hobby group can be anything from a small group of five to ten people or even something that has a global presence with thousands of people. Though everyone may be able to carry off heading a group of say five to ten people without any skills, one would require presentation skills if they have a lot of members and have several interactions now and then.

People in the Sales Business

A salesperson or a waiter/waitress requires such skills at every moment of their job. A salesperson requires these skills to pitch the product, while the waiter would require the skills at every point of their service to the customer, right from offering the menu to getting the dish.

These are just some of the individuals outside the corporate world who require such skills as a requisite in their everyday lives.