Presenting and Public Speaking Do’s and Don’ts

By Jon, on November 20th, 2009
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A recent post over at the 6Minutes blog (by Andrew Dlugan, @6minutes) broke down some survey data gathered by Chris Brogan (@ChrisBrogan) about speaker Do's and Don'ts.  I thought the findings were GREAT and many of the responses were insightful and spot-on.  If you're a presentation newbie, this is one of the best resources to learn the best traits of effective presenters. 

Some of my favorites were (my thoughts in italic):

  • Involve the audience; Make your presentation a conversation (a.k.a. a two-way street)
  • Focus on the message; avoid lengthy self-promotion
  • Provide useful handouts (not just slides) - in other words, create a takeaway separate from your presentation slides.  Don't fall into the trap of creating a slideument
  • Know your audience
  • Don't go over time; Leave more time for Q&A
  • Don't read your slides, they're not a script

There are plenty more, and Andrew took the time to separate them into more defined meta-groups as well.  Hop over to his blog to read the entire post, but make sure you come back!

-JT

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