Advanced Platform Skills: Master-level Presentation Tips

This is the second of two videos on the platform skills that will make your presentation come across great. In the last one, we looked at the basics that will make you a great presenter. But, in this one, let’s focus on some of the advanced skills that professionals use.
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See below for details
PRESENTATION SKILLS
This video is part of course module 2.2.2
Program 2: Manager as Communicator
Course 2: Presentation Skills
Section 2: Delivery
Other videos in this section include:
How to Control Your Nerves Before and During Your Presentation https://youtu.be/ztB6Qj4NnD4
Travelling to Your Presentation: Speakers Checklists for Rad Warrior Presenters https://youtu.be/n9LNTAhtWs8
Basic Platform Skills: Giving a Great Presentation https://youtu.be/ReEK7ZTK7nM
Advanced Platform Skills: Master-level Presentation Tips https://youtu.be/mOEhksbVcHs
Managing Audience Questions in Your Presentation [inc the Tough Ones!] https://youtu.be/Qygaao2pB5U
LESSON NOTES
Power Presence
Start with Power Pause
o Own the room
o Breath
o Positive relaxation
Be present constantly looking at and aware of your audience. Notice mood and respond to it.
Bring yourself to your Presentation
Your:
o Passion
o Personality
o Sense of Humor
o Energy

Visual Aids are an aid - You are the main attraction
Fight the Fidget
1. Movements
Make them big and purposeful, from a solid, rooted base
2. Vocal fidget: fillers
Practice replacing them with pauses
RECOMMENDED EXERCISE
Once you have got good at the advice in our video on basic platform skills (https://youtu.be/ReEK7ZTK7nM), work on these pointers. Bring one idea into each new presentation
1. Power presence (2 MC CPD Points)
2. Bring yourself into your presentation (2 MC CPD Points)
3. Work well with your visual aids (slides) (2 MC CPD Points)
4. Fight the physical fidget (2 MC CPD Points)
5. Fight the vocal fidget (2 MC CPD Points)
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DOWNLOADS
Free Resources
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Paid resources
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RECOMMENDED READING
My top recommendation is my own book:
How to Speak so people Listen - https://geni.us/HSPL
Other Recommendations:
The Presentation Book - https://geni.us/6sqr
Presentation Zen - https://geni.us/mrvmeh
The Pyramid Principle - https://geni.us/9cbjvBs
The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs - https://geni.us/KJpG
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BUT…
I have also created a Presenter’s Kit to accompany this course:
https://kit.co/MikeClayton/presenter-s-kit (the links are affiliated)
MANAGEMENT COURSES CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT (CPD) POINTS
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Each video has two levels of MC CPD points. For this video:
- If you simply watched the video, record 3 MC CPD points
- If you also carried out all of the recommended exercises, score a total of 13 MC CPD points
CHAPTER MARKERS
00:00 - Some advanced platform skills for presenters
00:27 - The Power Pause
01:59 - Bring yourself to your presentation
02:20 - Visual aids
03:19 - Working with Primary Slides
04:52 - Working with Secondary Slides
05:43 - Fight the Fidget
06:52 - The fidgets to avoid
08:49 - The movements to make
09:10 - Verbal Fidgets
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