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Many projects require some type of presentation of the final results. Therefore some or all of the members of a group will be required to present their findings or completed project to a group of people. This presentation can perhaps be the most important part of the project since you are communicating your results to your teacher, professor, boss or peers. If there is poor communication and these people don’t understand or aren’t interested in your project, then your final grade will suffer.

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Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, is known for his over the top presentations. Whenever there is a roll out of new products at the company, he is sure to do a presentation on how cool these products are. However, there is something more to it than just demonstrating Apple products. His presentations bring customers together into a type of community. He has the ability to keep people interested in the company and motivated to follow him. How does he do this? Well according Carmine Gallo, author of the book ‘The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs’, he uses a number of tactics which all of us can afford to emulate.

1. Maintain Eye Contact – Make people feel like you’re talking to them instead of reading from slides or notes.

2. Open Posture – Stand up straight, keep your arms uncrossed and smile.

3. Use Effective Hand Gestures – Use your hands and body language to emphasize or highlight your speech.

4. User Simple bullet points for presentations – If you’re using PowerPoint or something like that, be sure to use simple points which people can peruse and understand quickly. You don’t want them staring at the presentation and reading it.

5. Practice, practice, practice – Make sure you know your presentation inside and out. Practice in front of friends, your family and even the mirror or a camcorder. When you practice be sure to pretend like you’re on-stage and in front of a real group of people. Ask people to provide you with healthy criticism, it will help.

6. Have fun and be energized – If you’re energized and confident about your presentation then this energy will spillover to your audience. An audience that is energized and having fun will more likely listen to you and appreciate what you have to say.

For more details have a look at the Forbes article: http://entertheblog.com/mU .

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