BODY LANGUAGE
- Control it or it will control you
- Be careful of secondary messages communicated by body language
- Make eye contact with the audience
PROJECT CONFIDENCE
- Occupy the space and stand straight using your presentation voice
- Using your presentation voice will make it appear that you are confident
- It will also make you appear taller
MENTAL CONCENTRATION
Your mental concentration should control your body language.
- Don’t become distracted by listening to yourself while presenting or you will have an out of body experience and make mistakes
- Do not judge your performance while you are performing
- Do not be affected by the audience reaction or lack of it
- Don’t stop your presentation
- Stay within yourself – your comfort zone
Recording yourself to see if you have any ‘tells’ is enlightening. Tells are body language signs that tell the audience that you have disconnected from them.
TELLS LIKE:
- closing your eyes
- looking away from the audience for a long time
- using your hands to much so they become a distraction
- when listening intently, you look mad
