No matter what people tell you, public speaking is not a skill that people who are lucky at the lottery of life possess while the rest of us are doomed to failure. Anyone can develop presentation skills, and with just a little practice, anyone can become a world-class speaker. This PowerPoint Slide Deck contains 101 public speaking tips that will help you reduce stage fright and become more self-confident.

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101 Public Speaking Tips
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Where you can find all of the tips with details about each one!

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Design a Good Skeleton of a Presentation
1. Create a Clear and Specific Title or Topic
2. Limit Your Support to a Few Most Important Points
3. Add Stories
4. Use Stories to Reinforce Facts and Figures

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Reduce Public Speaking Fear
5. Practice with a Partner
6. Avoid Video Feedback
7. Get Good at Delivering without Notes and Visual Aids
8. Butterflies are Normal
9. Lose Train of Thought? If you lose your train of thought and feel
some panic, then one of a couple of things might be happening. You
likely have a bunch of bullet points that are difficult to remember. If so,
go back through the earlier tips and design your speech differently. If
you are feeling light headed and confused, though…
10. Breath
11. Realize 90% of Nervousness Doesn’t Show
12. Avoid Writing Presentation Word for Word
13. Avoid Memorizing Your Entire Speech

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Add Energy to Your Presentation
14. Add Energy and Enthusiasm
15. Talk with Your Hands
16. Make Your Gestures Bigger than Your Body
17. Exaggerate Gestures in Big Venues
18. Speak Faster
19. Move Faster
20. Speak Up; Your voice is your best tool when you present, so use it. If
you are quiet, the audience will question your authority on the subject.
Increase your volume a little to show the audience that you are in
control.
21. Change Your Tone

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Add Impact and Pizzazz to Your Presentation
22. Make Your Title Audience Focused
23. Make Your Bullet Points Title Focused
24. Add More Stories
A Few Ways to Use Stories to Reduce Nervousness
and Add Impact
25. Add a Moral or an Action
26. Use Success Stories as Proof
27. Learn from Mistakes
28. Give Contrasting Examples

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A Few Ways to Use Audience Participation to
Add Impact
29. Add Audience Participation
30. Avoid Rhetorical Questions
31. Be Careful with Yes/No Questions
32. Avoid Single Answer Questions
33. Ask Open Ended, Opinion Based Questions
34. Think/Write/Share
35. Use Sticky Notes to Get Input
36. Practice with a Partner
37. Have a Contest

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Other Ways to Add Impact to Presentation
38. Analogies
39. Anecdotes Add Fun and Humor
40. Demonstrations
41. Offer a Sample
42. Quote from an Expert
43. Name Drop
44. Add Showmanship

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A Few Ways to Add Showmanship
45. Use Posters Instead of Pictures
46. Add Some Magic
47. Teach The Audience Something that will Surprise Them
48. Props can Add Showmanship
49. A Good Leave-Behind can Add Showmanship
Organizing the Presentation
50. Limit Your Presentation to Five or Fewer Points
51. Add at Least One “Impact Idea” to Each Point
52. Take a Break
53. Use Your “Impact Ideas” to Alter Time

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PowerPoint Tips
54. Design Your Presentation First, then Add Visual Aids
55. Use Fewer Slides
56. Less is More
57. 6 X 6
58. Avoid Overuse of Animation
59. Use Appropriate Animation to Clarify Your Points
60. Charts and Graphs are for Handouts, not PowerPoint Slide Decks
61. Avoid Pictures for Decoration
62. Add Pictures for Clarity
63. Consider Boards Instead of Slides
64. PowerPoint Slide Colors
65. Use Simple Fonts
66. Use Bullet Points
67. Reveal Your Bullets One at a Time
68. Point to Bullets when You Reference Them
69. Stand Up When You Speak
70. Practice with Your Slides
71. Avoid “Read… Click…”
72. Design Your Own Slideshow

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Places to Practice
73. Social Clubs
74. Chambers of Commerce
75. Libraries and City Recreation Centers
76. Lunch-N-Learns
77. Teleseminars or Webinars
78. Association Meetings in Your Industry
79. Association Meetings in Client Industries
80. Trade Shows
81. Marketing Seminars by Reservation
82. Paid Seminars
83. Paid Consulting Meetings
84. Radio and TV Shows
85. YouTube
86. Podcast Your Videos
87. Joint Venture Seminars

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Team Sales Presentations
88. Prepare Your Team Ahead of Time
89. Talk About THEM, Not You
90. Show the Client that You are a Team
91. Use Showmanship
92. Question and Answer Sessions
93. Questions for Clarity
94. Questions to Test You
95. Set a Time Limit
96. Ask the First Question if Needed
97. When Time Expires, End It

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The Seven Deadly Sins of Presenting
(We know… This puts us at 103 tips versus 101, but we like to over-achieve.)
98. Thou Shan’t Not Go Overtime without Consent
99. To “uh” is Human, but Too Many is Annoying
100. Thou Shall Not Speak Monotonally
101. Thou Shall Not Use Shop-Talk
102. Thou Shall Not Speak Whilst the Audience Readests Thy Slide
103. Thou Shan’t Not Read Endless Excerpts to Thine Audience
104. Thou Shan’t Not Dump Endless Data Upon Thine Audience
The good news is that if you follow the prior tips, you will never violate any
of these deadly sins!

13. Fearless Presentations® - 101 Public Speaking Tips
101 Public Speaking Tips
This list is taken from…
www.fearlesspresentations.com/101-public-speaking-tips/
Where you can find all of the tips with details about each one!
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www.leadersinstitute.com or the Fearless Presentations® site
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