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1. Don’t give out notes at the start of your presentation. They’ll look at them rather than follow you.
2. Don’t write on a white board in colours or in a print size that people can’t read.
3. Don’t keep your power points or overheads up all the time.
4. Don’t have umpteen points on your slide.
5. Don’t use a hands free microphone if you’re at the lectern.
6. Don’t use a hands free microphone if you’re not comfortable moving around the stage.
7. Don’t turn around and look at your slides.
8. Don’t skip slides because you’re running out of time.
9. Don’t say “We’ll come back to that.”
10. Remember LESS is MORE.
11. Put some humour in your presentation.
12. At the end of your presentation tell them what they have to do.
13. Put some light and shade into your delivery.
14. Don’t constantly look amazed at your beaut power point or overheads.
15. Don’t ask for questions as you go through your presentation.
16. Don’t rabbit on about non- relevant information.
17. Keep to time.
18. Don’t answer one-on-one interruptions.
19. Practice, rehearse and drill (as my old mate, Doug Malouf, would say).
20. Get ready to humbly accept the wild applause of a well-informed, delighted audience.