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I developed these to help the business professionals (and professional speakers) who I coach on presentation skills. These are the "Top 10" Presentation Tips, please visit the URL below to download the remaining 40 top presentation skills to your IPhone!

Mike Faber’s 50 Top Presentation Tips!

1.  Accentuate the positive as you coach yourself.  Resist the temptation to focus on what you’re doing wrong, and redirect your energies to recognize and reward what you’re doing right. 

2.  When in doubt, ask a question.  Asking your audience for their input shows your concern for their experience of you. 

3.  Respect your audience.  Don’t ask for respect, show it.  Keep the focus on the rewards they can reap from your hard work and preparation.

4.  Speak deliberately, give your audience the time to process and react to what you have to say.

5.   Communicate the key points of your message repeatedly.  Tell stories to illustrate those points.

6.   Distill complex information into its basest elements.  If you can’t describe a concept clearly and succinctly so that every audience member understands it, leave the concept on the cutting room floor.

7.    Concentrate on making others look good, the reflection you see will be your own.

8.    Stuff happens.  If the projector doesn’t work, you misplace your speaker’s notes, or the felt marker goes dry, don’t apologize.  Soldier on.  Better yet, have a backup plan.

9.     Understand the audience’s motivation to listen.  Find out who’ll be listening, why and what they expect from you.

10.    No-one has a script except for you.  If you erred on a fact, correct yourself.  If you erred on a style point, ignore it and move on. 

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