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Presentation Training is provided across the United States and Canada. Participants have three options to attend and participate in our presentation training. Presentations are delivered via public open enrollment courses in all major metropolitan areas and are also available to be delivered on-site via private courses. The 3rd option is to attend Online Webinar Presentations Skills Workshops. Our face to face Presentation Training can be provided as off-the-shelf sessions, ready to be delivered to a diverse audience or can be customized to provide a tailored and personalized presentation training approach based on client needs. All presentations courses are limited to a maximum of twelve participants so as to increase presentation course effectiveness and provide the individual level of face to face or online coaching and interaction that is associated with the Presentations Training Skills Center.

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Presentation Courses - Avoid 10 Common Presentation Pitfalls

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In order to know what makes an effective presentation, you must first know what can destroy your presentation.

Here are 10 common presentation pitfalls you don't want to make when giving a formal presentation for your job or business. These pitfalls will lessen your effectiveness and your audience will lose confidence in you as a professional.

1. Sounding or Looking Nervous - It's only natural to be nervous in front of a crowd. A lot of very effective speakers are. However, if you nervousness cause you to be stiff and hesitant in your speech, you will cause your audience to focus on how nervous you are and you will lose them from the very beginning.

2. Monotone Voice - A presenter that has a voice with no emotion well take away from the presentation. It does not matter how great the information is. Presenting the information in a monotone voice will kill your speech.

3. Voice That is Too Soft - If the audience cannot hear you past the first few rows, they will become disconnected from you and probably start to think about what the next presenter will be like.

4. Little or no Eye Contact - If you tend to look down, over or away from your audience, they will feel disconnected and also start thinking about the next speaker and what they will have for lunch.

5. Reading Slides or Handouts to Audience - Supporting materials and visual aids are meant to add value to your presentation. When you read them word for word, you will insult your audience's intelligence. They did not come for you to read to them. They came to hear you speak.

6. Slides with Too Much Information - When you put too much information on a slide the presentation loses its value. Data and tiny charts takes away the audience's focus on the presentation and they become frustrated because of all the tiny numbers.

7. Too Much Jargon - When you use too much company specific language or terminology you will lose your audience. They will look like deer in headlights.

8. Data Overload - Speaker gives so many details, the core message gets lost and to key points are remembered.

9. Too Much Humor - Humor can add a nice touch to a presentation. However, forced humor, or too much humor can take away from the seriousness of your message and you can make your audience uncomfortable and risk alienating them.

10. Having no Closure - The only way you know the presentation is over is when the speaker stops speaking.

If you do these things, your presentation will surely fail.

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