Presentation Skills & Techniques: 3 Easy Ways To Improve Right Now

Sitting through a boring, poorly delivered presentation is right up there with hearing someone scratching fingernails across a chalkboard or getting a root canal.

If YOU have to give a presentation, you'll have no excuse for a poor presentation - IF you simply use any or all of the easy-to- use presentation skills tips you're about to discover.

The fact is that half the battle of delivering a good or even great presentation is the structure of the presentation itself.

Here are 3 terrific presentation structures that are "plug and play" - that means all you have to do is take the content of your seminar, meeting, presentation, talk (etc.) and plug it into any of these 3 ready-made presentation structures.

Terrific Presentation Structure Number 1:

Problem to Solution This is a deceptively simple, yet extremely powerful way to structure your presentation.

Your presentation is clearly divided into 2 distinct parts:

First you delineate and outline the problem - whatever that is. In a business meeting, it might be a current problem or challenge the company must solve or face.

In a seminar or workshop, it could be the pain or problems you help people solve, such as an insurance agent helping people solve their health or life insurance problems.

Outline the problem in great detail.

Exacerbate the problem so that everyone in the room "gets it" and "feels the pain" of this problem or problems.

Then draw a clear demarcation, and go into the solution.

You may be providing the solution, or perhaps the group is gathered to brainstorm a solution.

Terrific Presentation Structure Number 2:

The 4-Mat System - This is a terrific plug-and-play presentation structure in 4 simple parts:

1. First, go into sufficient detail about why this meeting or presentation is being held and taking place.

2. Next proceed to outline relevant details, facts, data, and statistics about the subject matter at hand.

3. Next you want to be specific about exactly how this information is useful, can be used, where and when it can be used, with whom - and so forth.

4. Finally, you either hold a question and answer session, or you can explore alternatives and options to what has been presented so far.

Terrific Presentation Structure Number 3:

Modules - Have a ton of information you need to impart or train or present to a group?

Break it up into "bite-sized" pieces called modules.

Here's a slick trick if you're a trainer or educator: In each module, include a little preview and sampling of what's coming up in the next module - this is called "looping modules" and is extremely beneficial to your students or trainees.

There - now you have no excuse for a poor presentation. And, you can now create a terrific presentation in no time flat!

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