How many times have you sat through a presentation that bored you to tears?  This is a great opportunity to use this experience to improve your own presentations.  Just what did they do wrong?  Was the content interesting?  Was the person boring?  Here are some tips that you can use to improve your own presentation:

1. Keep to an Agenda - people will only listen to what they want to listen to.
2. Speak clearly - don't mumble and don't be shy, you have only one chance at this and one chance at a first impression.
3. Be concise - don't waffle and make sure the audience understands, if the audience goes to sleep, vary your presentation style to suit.
4. Be interesting - find out about your audience before hand and their level of knowledge, vary your presentation to suit them.
5. Engage the audience - ask the audience a question, get them to put their hand up if they have had that problem themselves and then show them ways to solve their problem.
6. Be memorable - do something different or be someone different so that the audience can remember you in positive ways.
7. Give the audience a hand out to remember you including your contact details.
8. If using powerpoint, don't put too much detail on the overheads, provide the detail in a handout or an email address where they can down-load more information.
9. Practice, practice, practice.
10. Keep to your alloted time.

Please use this information to develop your own fantastic presentation and let me know how you go!