Sunday, September 12, 2010

Developing & Delivering Leadership Presentations



A leader’s skills are most visible to others when speaking, whether it is formal or informal. Leaders must be comfortable and confident when making presentations.
In the planning phase of developing your presentation you need to determine your strategy, analyze your audience, select the medium and delivery method and organize you logical structure.

One of the most popular delivery methods for business presentation is still the stand-up presentation. They allow you to maintain eye contact and rapport with your audience make adjustments based on the audience’s response and appear confident and knowledgeable.

The organizing of a presentation proceeds from the needs and interest of the audience, your purpose and the demands of subject matter. It’s a good idea to refer to the analysis of you audience to determine the most effective structure.

Once you have analyzed you audience and developed your communication strategy and determined the overall structure you are ready to prepare your presentation. This preparation consists of developing the introduction, body and conclusion, creating graphics, testing the flow and logic, editing and proofreading and practicing.

When the time of presentation is near you must concentrate on you delivery style, stance speech and overall effect.

In summary, when you are presenting you must focus you energy on your audience, create and maintain rapport and adopt a secure stance.

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