Professional Presentation Skills Helpful Hints

You have doubtless been adjured to "forget everything but your subject."This advice says either too much or too little. The truth is that while on the platform you must not _forget_ a great many things that are not in your subject, but you must not _think_ of them. Your attention must consciously go only to your message, but subconsciously you will be attending to the points of technique which have become more or less_habitual by practise_.

A nice balance between these two kinds of attention is important.

You can no more escape this law than you can live without air: Your platform gestures, your voice, your inflection, will all be just as good as your _habit_ of gesture, voice, and inflection makes them--no better.Even the thought of whether you are speaking fluently or not will have the effect of marring your flow of speech.