Presentation Skills For Introverts (online and in person!)

1. Course Preview: A famous businessman once said, You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere. You have probably also had similar experiences yourself. People who can present well at business meetings, conferences, or even in school, often get more recognition, promotions, more clients and better grades. And that's even if their performance is actually not as good as that of other people. Meanwhile, people who are really good at what they do, who have great ideas are a lot of knowledge, but they're not that good at presenting themselves in their work often gets overlooked. You can say that that's not fair, but it's just the way things work. However, on the positive side, representation skills can be learned and developed. And dad goes both for online and offline presentations. So that is what we will do in this video course. My name is Karl. I'm a communication Coach, conference host, author and content creator. Throughout my education and career, I have given hundreds of presentations, talks, and speaker announcements. I have been learning, experimenting and teaching presentation skills for years and I put all my best insights and tips into this compact video course. I will accompany you through the entire process of creating, preparing, and giving any kind of presentation or top. I'll show you how to structure the content of your presentation and decide what to include and what to leave out. I'll show you how to design professional slides that are memorable, easier to follow and pleasant to look at. I'll give you specific advice on what to do to improve your online presentations. I'll tell you how to present well with your voice and your body, how to command people's attention. And also many, many more tips and tricks that will help you leave a powerful impression on your audience and get you closer to that goal you're chasing in your career or personal life. Of course, all of this will be accompanied with a lot of examples. As usual, if you buy the course and then realize that you don't really like it, you still have 30 days to get your money back. If that sounds good to you, then I'm looking forward to having this journey with you. Let's get started. 2. Can presentation skills really be learned?: You're probably know someone who is simply great at presenting. They can get up and speak in front of people as if it was nothing. And when they do, they can seemingly talk about anything and make it sound super interesting. Yes, some people are just talented and presentation skills, but unfortunately, that doesn't go forever. A lot of people don't have that natural aptitude for it, or even worse, have an outright version to it. But here's the good news. 3. What kind of presentation are you giving?: To get on the same page and make sure we know what we're talking about. Let's quickly define what a presentation is and what types of presentations there are. A presentation is a speech meant to transfer certain knowledge from the speaker to the audience. It is usually accompanied by visual materials, typically in the form of slides containing text and images. And afterwards the audience usually gets to ask the speaker Questions. A presentation can be given at the physical event on a stage in front of a live audience or over a video call. Presentations in different settings can vary in duration from a couple of minutes to an hour or even several hours. The most common occasion forgiving and seeing presentations is an education. Presenting is the most common way of teaching, both in schools and at universities. Some, most lectures are shaped this way. In addition, students also have to give presentations every once in awhile, which can be a form of exam. However, this is by far not the only place where we encounter presentations. At the workplace. People very often give them with the results of their work and blends on how to fix problems through their colleagues and bosses. Companies and freelancers give presentations to potential clients explaining why their product or service is word declines money. These are also called pitches or product presentations. At conferences, experts give presentations, often called talks with the latest developments and findings in their fields. This is not yet all of it. You can give an argumentative presentation where you're trying to prove your point as a part of debate on a divisive topic. For example, as part of a public initiative aimed to change a certain law, you can even give an entertaining presentation. I've even seen people use slides and give presentations as part of a stand-up comedy routine. As we can see, there are many different places we give presentations at, and many different types of presentations. Of course, there are different aspects that differentiate them. One of them is duration electric and last 60 minutes or even more, while a pitch can even last only 60 seconds. Then the goal, the goal of a lecture is to inform the students. The goal of a pitch is to convince the audience. And the goal of a talk, probably a bit of both to inform the audience, but also positioned the speaker as a trustworthy expert. Then there is also the style of the presentation, the setting, the tone, and a lot of other factors that may be characteristic for a particular type of presentation. So it's good to think about what type of a presentation you are supposed to give, because that will tell you how long your presentation should be. And by the way, it's very important that you always respect the time limit that you are given. Furthermore, it will tell you what you are aiming to achieve with your presentation, as well as what kind of tone and style you might want to consider. All these things will in turn help you shape the content of your presentation more consciously and more efficiently, which is what we will be talking about in the next videos. As one final note, note that these differences between a talk or a presentation or speech or not that clear cut. So throughout the course we will use these three words in there, changeable. Alright, let's summarize. Presentations are given in different places, on different occasions and also with different goals you might be trying to achieve. So it's important to think about what type of presentation is expected of you. And that will give you a better idea of how to approach creating your presentation. 4. What is it really about?: Now that we've covered some basics, it's time to start working on your presentation. In most cases, the topic of your presentation will be defined in advance. It might be either defined for you or you may be able to choose your topic freely. However, that is not what we're talking about in this video. What we are concerned with here is defining the focus of your presentation within the broader context of your topic. To make this more understandable, let me give you an example. Let's say you are going to give a talk about climate change. Climate change is a very broad topic. You could talk about the causes of climate change, the consequences of climate change, a possible future scenarios, scientific studies about it, how the world has been trying to tackle it, what individuals can do about it, and so on and so on. As you can see, you couldn't possibly cover all the aspects of this topic in a single presentation. Even if you've decided to just give a general overview of the topic, you will necessarily have to leave out some of these elements. What you have to do is decide what you want to focus on. To help you decide, think about these questions. Who is your audience and what is the goal of your presentation? Is it to inform a specific audience who already have some knowledge? Or is it to motivate a wider population to do something? If the first is the case and if we stay with the same example, you would probably focus more on scientific explanations of climate change. But if your goal is to motivate your audience to adapt their lifestyle and minimize their own impact on climate change, then you would be better off focusing on what each individual can do to help tackle the problem. And if the goal of your presentation is something else, just follow the same procedure. Think about what aspect of the topic is the most relevant for your audience, what they already know, and what they're interested in, as well as what will be the most likely to help you achieve your goal. This is why it's very important to know who your audience is, and that is something we will talk about in the next video. For now, let's summarize the main points from this one. It's impossible to cover absolutely all angles and aspects of a topic no matter what your topic is. And this is why you have to narrow it down and decide what the focus of your presentation will be. To help you decide that, think about what your goal is and who your audiences then shaped the focus of your presentation accordingly. 5. Who are you talking to?: This is something that I cover in many of my courses. And that's not without a good reason, not only in public speaking, but in all types of communication in general, knowing your audience. In other words, knowing who the person you're talking to is, is one of the most important prerequisites for your message to be successful. You don't talk the same way to seven-year-olds, 17 year-olds, and 70 seven-year-olds. Why not? Because they have different interests and different knowledge. The same goes for people with different backgrounds. Are the people in your audience, scientists, athletes, businesspeople, artists, or something completely different. In order for your presentation to be interest and engaging to your audience and to help you achieve your goal with them, the content and style of your talk had to be appropriate for the age, interests, and the knowledge of your audience. So if you already don't know it, the first step is to find out who your audience exactly is. Sometimes you already know these people in person. But if you're giving a talk at some kind of event where they're online or physical, you can always ask the organizer about it. They will at least have a rough idea about the age, professions or inches, and educational backgrounds of the audience. Or they might even have official statistics about him if it is a bigger event. Now that you know who you're talking to, you can build your talk or presentation accordingly. Let's say you're giving a talk about artificial intelligence, also known as AI, and a conference for tech enthusiasts. This means that they will probably have a good idea of what AI is. So you don't have to spend too much time on the simple basics. This would only board. Instead you can focus on more advanced things on the other side, Let's say you're giving the same presentation about AI, but the people working in the medical profession, Let's say you were explaining to them how AI can help them in their work. These people may have never heard of artificial intelligence. So you will have to first spend some time explaining what AI is and how it works, and only then explain what it can do for them. That is an example of adapting the content of your talk to your audience. But equally as important is adapting the style and the tone. Every profession, discipline and field had their own vocabularies, both technical terms and slang or jargon that people in these fields use, but that outsiders don't understand. For example, people active in artificial intelligence circles may use terms like behavior tree or pattern recognition or reinforcement learning. For the rest of us, these are technical terms we don't understand, but they use them on a daily basis. A lot of specific slang is often used in sports. If you talk with someone about a basketball game, they watch less night. You might hear them say things like ALU or bank shot or ankle breaker. If you're not familiar with this board, then these words might mean nothing to you or it might mean something completely different. This is another important element in shaping your presentation. Your audience already has a certain knowledge of the topic. Use the words and expressions characteristic for that field. But if they don't, then always explain the terms before you use them, this will help their understanding and we'll even make them feel cool because they will feel like insiders. Let's see what we've learned. Knowing your audience is one of the most important conditions and public speaking and communication overall for your message to be successful. Find out who you will be talking to in advance and shape the content and the style of your talk accordingly. Make sure the content is new for the audience, but not overwhelming, and use the vocabulary that they are familiar with. 6. Mind the structure!: What a lot of people have troubles with as structuring their speeches, talks, or presentations. However, clear structure is extremely important. If you were a tour guide taking tourists through a city, how would you organize that tour? There are certain attractions, famous buildings, statues, and museums that you'd like to show them. Now, you wouldn't just have the tourists randomly running around all over the place. You would try to create a certain route through the city that would naturally lead them through these attractions in the certain order. It's the same thing with structuring your presentation. There are certain topics you want to cover in certain points you wanted to make. Now you need to think what's the best route you can take to lead your audience through those topics and points. How can you present them so that they naturally follow from one another and so that they're easy for your audience to understand. There are two types of structure, macrostructure and micro structure. Macro structure is the overall form of your presentation. And as with almost all narrative forms, it has three parts and those are introduction, main part, and conclusion. And that is fairly simple. In the introduction, you try to arouse the audience's interest for your topic and introduce yourself. You can do that through an interesting story, a joke, a practical demonstration, or by just telling them right away how they may benefit from this subject matter. This is very important because the introduction is your first impression. If you leave a good first impression to people will be curious and interested in paying attention to what you're saying. If you don't, well, don't be surprised if they started looking at their phones or falling asleep. The main part is, of course, where you lay out the subject matter in detail. You go through all the information and topics and points you wanted to make. The question is in which order do you wish to do that? And that is the other type of structured, the microstructure. But we'll come back to that in a moment in the last part, the conclusion, you don't bring in any new information or arguments. The conclusion is what you want your audience to take away from your presentation, then we'll never be able to remember everything you said throughout the talk. But if you do it well, they may remember your conclusion. So shaped that final part in a coordinates the goal of your presentation. For example, if you're doing a sales presentation or a pitch, make one last call to action in that final part. If you're giving a lecture, you could repeat and summarize all the important points you made in your lecture. If you're arguing for or against something, you will want to repeat your main arguments and demonstrate how your point of view logically follows from them. So that's the macro-structure introduction main part in conclusion. Admittedly, there's not much room for experimenting there virtually all forms of conveying information have that structure from books and movies through emails to even just small everyday conversations. If you'd want to do it any other way, it would just be very confusing. However, the microstructure is where you have more freedom in this relates to the order in which you present the information, the subtopics you cover, all the points you want to make. How you will do that will most often depend on the subject matter of your speech. If you're talking about a series of events or even covering a history unrelated topic, you will probably go for a chronological order, meaning the order in which the events happened. If you're explaining something scientific or tech related, it might make the most sense to start with simpler concepts and then gradually move on to the more complex ones. Or if you're giving an argumentative presentation, it wouldn't be common to present one side of the argument first than the other and then your conclusion. This is usually called the thesis, anti-thesis and synthesis. These are three types of microstructures you can use one of them, combine them, explore more of them, or maybe even come up with your own ones. But think consciously about how you want to order the information you're presenting so that it's easy to follow and understand for the people listening to you. Let's summarize. Structure is very important because without it, your audience will feel lost and won't be able to follow and understand much. There are two types of structure, the macrostructure, microstructure. The macro structure is basic. The introduction in which you create interests for the topic and introduce yourself. The main part in which you systematically present the information and points you want to make. And the conclusion in which you don't introduce any new information, but formulate what it is that you would like your audience to take away from your talk. 7. Bring some backup!: Depending on your topic and the circumstances you're giving your presentation and you will most likely have to do some research about the subject matter you're presenting. You might already know some things, but you will probably still have to look up some information, either to expand on what you already know or just make sure you got it right. So what the most people do in that situation is only lookup to things that are irrelevant for the core of their presentation. In other words, only research what they will be talking about that is understandable. But if you really want to shine and do an outstanding job with your talk, you should also go a step further and research a bit more. Go wider and read more text, scatter more information, lookup, more data than only what you will include into the presentation. In other words, create an informational backup for yourself. This will take more time, but trust me, it will be worth if nothing else. In most cases, there will be a short Q&A session after your presentation where your audience will be able to ask you questions. Sometimes people might even raise their hands and ask questions during your presentation. So this is an excellent way of preparing yourself for that. What's even more that can help you find your way when you get a question that you actually don't know the answer to, you could have a general idea of where to find the answer thanks to that extra text you read. Or you might be able to slightly shift the attention. The other thing you read about instead. Finally, knowing more than you plan on covering will give you a lot more confidence and a lot more freedom when you're actually presenting. First of all, you will have a feeling that you really know the subject matter well. You won't be scared of questions and you will radiate that confidence. Second of all, if you notice that people in the audience are particularly interested in some specific aspect of the topic and you read a bit more about it, you can easily improvise a bit and talk about that. Even though it wasn't your original plan, the audience will love that and they will really see you as an expert. And third of all, if you lose your way and don't know what the next thing you wanted to say was, you will have more options. You can simply make a digression into one of those things you read about and give yourself time to remember what the original thing you wanted to say was. I hope all these reasons are enough to convince you. Because trust me, it will always be worth your time to create an informational backup. In other words, do a wider research and read up on more topics and more aspects of the subject matter, then only the core material that you are planning to include into your presentation. 8. Useful online tools for creating your slides: More often than not, you will be expected to have slides to accompany your presentation. As we'll discuss later, the slides themselves are not the most important thing. You should be the star of the show and not your slides. But even with that said, they are still far away from being unimportant. Well-designed slides can go a very long way in helping you drive your message home and achieving your goal with the audience. They can add color to your storytelling. They can help you illustrate concepts are explaining, help the audience remember information, or just simply strengthen your professional impression. As you can see, you should definitely put effort into creating your slides. For debt, you need certain tools. In this video, I'd like to introduce you to some online tools and resources that can come in very handy and make your life much easier. What software you're using to create your visuals doesn't matter all that much. You could be using PowerPoint, Apple Keynote, Prezi, or Google Slides to name only some. I personally prefer Google slides because you can easily access them wherever you have internet, you can easily share them with a simple link. And at the same time to give you a lot of possibilities to create good presentations. Google Slides is also what we will be using in the next videos to demonstrate some of the principles of good design. If you want to grow for a really impressive presentation, you might want to create it in Adobe Illustrator or a similar program. But unless you're really good at it, the simpler programs will do just fine. Now in many presentations you see a really impressive cool photos. Do these people will really go out and take these photos. Not really. They're called stock photos and you can get them online from sites like Shutterstock.com. The only problem is that if you have a limited budget, they might be quite expensive. Luckily, there are free options as well. You can find excellent stock photos for free on the website, unsplash.com and Pexels.com. On Pexels, you can even find really professional stock videos for free. Next thing you might want to do some image editing that goes beyond the possibilities of Google Slides. If you don't have the skills or access to Photoshop, there are great online alternatives you can use for free, like canva.com or snap ahd.com. There is also an easy to use program you can download for free and use offline called GIMP. Additionally, if you want to remove the background from a picture, You can do that very simply as Remove BG. And finally, whenever you have something in mind you'd like to do on your presentation, but you don't know how to do it. There are countless tutorials on the Internet for almost anything. So don't hesitate to look something up. Surely there are many, many other wonderful free and premium tools out there that can help you create a wonderful presentation. But these will definitely cover your basic needs for fruit. Google Slides for creating slides on unsplash.com and Pexels.com for stock materials, snap a.com, canva.com or GIMP for image editing and remove doc BG for removing backgrounds. Finally, if you don't know how to do something, don't hesitate to look up a tutorial because it might just even be easier than you think. 9. How NOT to make slides: There are a lot of original and creative things you can do with your slides to give them that extra something. However, there are also some things that you really shouldn't do, at least not if you wanted to have professional slides. So in order to learn how to make good slides, let us first talk about how not to do it. The first and unfortunately very common mistake people make with their slides is putting too much text onto them. Observe what happens when I pull up this slide. You'll probably started reading the text on it. And since there's so much of it, it takes time for you to read it. But while you're doing that, you're not paying attention to what I'm saying. So then you get lost between the text on the slides and what I'm saying. And in the end, you're not really paying attention to either one. Let's try something else. Let me pull up this slide. You can see only one bullet point. You quickly skim it and then you continue listening to me. Isn't this much better than I can make the next bullet point up here and the next one, and so on. Let's take a look at another slide. Beautiful, isn't it a real masterpiece? Well, not really. The colors are just all over the place. This background is very distracting. It's difficult to read a text from it and it generally looks very unprofessional. So avoid distracting backgrounds and make sure there is a good contrast between it and the text so that it's easy to tell them apart. Finally, let's throw a glance at this one. A lot of funds on one slide. Can you even read all of this? I don't think I can, and I'm the one who made this slide. So don't use fonts that are difficult to read and also don't use too many fonts in one presentation. That looks very chaotic. It's best to use no more than two funds, one for the slide headings and one for general ticks. Those were some mistakes that you should definitely avoid when making your slides. Let's repeat them. Once again. Don't put too much text because that is very distracting and the audience won't listen to what you're saying. Don't use distracting backgrounds with low contrast between them and the text. Finally, don't use fonts that are hard to read as well as don't use more than two different fonts in the same presentation. If you're just respect these simple guidelines, you will already have a decent presentation. Now, if you wanted to find out how to make a great presentation, just keep watching to learn more. 10. General guidelines for creating great slides: Depending on how much you enjoy being creative, making slides for your presentation can be great fun or tedious labor. But whatever the case, I'd like to give you some general guidelines that will make their slides look professional. If you're in that second category, make your creation process I bet, less tedious. Then in the next videos, we'll take a look at how to apply those guidelines in Google Slides. We already said this and the previous video, and as a matter of fact, I say this and almost all of my courses and workshops on presenting. But it's just so important that I have to say it again. Don't put too much text on your slides. Instead of putting entire paragraphs or chunks of text on your slides. And instead of writing out full sentences, use only bullet points with keywords. This is a sentence, but this is just keywords. As you can see, you can still understand the entire point, but there are less words, so they take less of audiences time and attention. So think about what the most important words in the sentence are. Cut out all the other ones and shape her bullet points so that the meaning is still fully understandable. Generally speaking, you want to have slides that say as much as possible, but with as few words as possible. What is the most effective way of doing that? Or let me put it in a different way. What says a thousand words? Yes, indeed, a picture. Make your message visual and use pictures whenever possible. You can use pictures as a background to illustrate what you're talking about or just create a more immersive setting. In other words, to really draw the audience into what you're telling them about. You can also use pictures to demonstrate things you're talking about. If you were, for example, talking about different breeds of dogs, the best way to show the differences between them is of course, the show pictures of them. Then you can use charts or infographics to make statistics and numerical data more tangible. Or you can use icons that go together with the subheadings are bullet points on the slides. This is great because it takes the audience even less time and attention to find their way on the slides and know what's what. There are indeed numerous possibilities when it comes to pictures. And the more you explore and experiment with them, the more creative solutions you will come up with, the more impressed your audience will be. Now let's talk about visual design. The common way to approach this as to have a certain template that you apply to every slide of your presentation. So the basic design and colors of oldest slides are the same and you just put different texts and different pictures on each one. You can take one of the pre-made templates offered in your software, or you might even download one from the Internet. Alternatively, you can make your own one. Ready-made templates are generally speaking, not a bad choice. There are great professional templates that can really elevate your slides. However, if you're using older software, the templates might look a bit outdated or people might have already seen them numerous times and underrepresentation. In that case, it might be better to create your own one or download one from the Internet. If you decide to create your own one. And if you're a beginner, I would personally suggest to take a son with minimalistic approach, especially if you're planning to include a lot of pictures into your slides. Don't use too many colors, use simple shapes and don't overload your design with details. The more complex or designed, the less freedom you will have in designing individual slides. So you might have difficulties later. If you still want to go for something special, it might even be better to arrange the content of the slides first and then create and apply the template. But again, if you're a beginner, it's best to stick to a simple and minimalistic design. This doesn't take a lot of skill, but it can still look very professional. Finally, see to it that your slides are consistent with one another. Here's what I mean by that. If you use a white background for the first seven slides, don't then suddenly switch to a yellow background on the 8th slide for no reason. If you do have a reason if you want to have that slide stick out on purpose, or if you want to emphasize that this is a different section of your presentation, then okay? But if there's no particular reason to do it, then keep your slides consistent. This goes for all elements of your slides, the fonts to positioning of texts, the colors and size of the text, the capitalization of the text, T icons to use, the positioning of pictures, the shapes of pictures. Everything makes sure to slides are consistent with each other in their design. If you don't, they will look unfinished. And to be honest, a bit amateurish. Here are all these guidelines. Once again, instead of putting entire sentences and paragraphs of text onto your slides, use keywords. Think which words in a sentence are the most important ones for people to understand the point and leave out the other ones. Then make her slides visual, use pictures whenever you can. You can use them for different purposes and they will make your slides much more lively and easier to follow. As for visual design, you can use templates or software offers. Download new templates or create your own ones if you're a beginner and take them in the holistic approach because it doesn't take much skill, but it's still looks professional. Finally, make sure your slides are consistent with one another because otherwise they will seem unfinished. 11. Working with text: It's time that we start working on your slides. So as you can see, I'm here in Google Slides for debt, you need a Google account, which is very simple to do. And as you can see, we can start a new presentation from scratch. So there's a blank design over here, and there are some templates on the right side. So if we click here on the template gallery, we can see even more templates. And as we said, we can open one of these and then we can just adjust this template to our content. Or we can go ahead and create new template, as I said from scratch, adjusting on already prepared template is fairly easy. So in this video we will focus on creating a whole new template for this, I'll simply click on blank. Now we're free to create whatever we want. In the upper-left corner, we can name our presentation. I'll call it a presentation one. On the left side we can see our slides, the structure of them. We can easily add more slides by clicking the right-click on the mouse and clicking new slide. In the middle, we have the design of individual slides. The right side changes depending on what we're doing. So far. All of the slides consists of two text-boxes. And if you wish to add another text box, you can also do that very easily by clicking over here where it says text box and then just dragging it to match the area that you want to cover. The advantage of separate text boxes is that you can animate each chunk of the text individually, but we will come to that later. For now, let's give a title into our presentation. Let's call it a presentation one, not very creative, but I guess it will do. Over here in the subtitle. I will say by Carlo could isn't knowledge. In this video, we will just concentrate on working with text. And then in the next video we will focus on the visual design. Of course, we can change fonts of our text and that we can do by clicking over here. And there's a lot of fonts that you can choose in Google slides. I will take this one. And for the subtitle, will take this one. I think they look nice and I will decide to use only these two fonts for the entire presentation, for all of the slides. As I said, it's good to stick with no more than two fonts. We can of course change the colors just as well. I have to move this over here. I can change the color by clicking here. Let's take Bordeaux, red berry, and we can even add a highlight color. But that won't look very good, but it's good to know that you have this option. And I will also show you why this option is sometimes important. I will just go and click Undo right now. I will move this up a little bit. Another thing you can do that often comes very handy is create a text shadow. For that, I will click over here on these three dots and I will click Format Options. Now, you can see that the options on the right side changed and I will click over here on Drop Shadow. Now did I click that? This box got itself checked? I can remove it or I can click it. And then you can see that this little shadow is created for this text. And you can then change the settings of this shadow, what angle it comes from, what distance it is in reference to the text, you can see that the distance from the text is changing, the blur radius and so on. So you can play with these and see which one looks the best for you. Another thing we can do is add a reflection to the text, or as you can see, here's a mirror reflection. It's a very nice detail. It looks really nice in my opinion, but it has a solely aesthetic function. If you remember, I also created this third text box and we can add some text over there as well. Let's say we wanted to add our contact information there and we can put it in the lower-left corner. Now let's go to our second slide. Let's add just a generic title. Let's call it slide title. Let's use the same font that we used on the first slide. That's this one. And what I'm going to do now is I'm going to click with the right mouse button and I will click over here where it says update in theme. What they achieved now by doing this is that every new slide I create, it will automatically make sure that this font, the same font is selected for the title section. I can do the same for the other text box where we put the main text. I'm going to select the font that we wanted to decide. And I'm going to use the right mouse-click updating theme. And now we can see that this has changed and the text that we're right here has that same font. Coming back to this second slide. Let's make the stick stand in the middle. For this, I will click over here on the three dots. And then over here the text alignment, middle. And I will also make them appear as bullet points. And finally, the last thing I will do is make them appear one after another. When I click to do that, I'm going to click over here on Animate. You can see that this column on the right just changed. So we have here, it says object animations. We can take fade in. We can take other ones as well, flying from the right. So we can click Play. So that will show now what happens. I click and they fly in from the right. But I want them to appear one by one. So click one more time. And I will click over here where it says by paragraph, we can even change the speed by which they appear. Now if I go and test it by clicking play, I press once. One piece of text appears, I press the second time. Another bullet point appears to third time. The third one appears. There you have it. Ultimately, every element that we use on our presentation, we can animate it and make it appear when we click. You can also make things appear without clicking so that they appear on their own. But I think this is the most convenient option. So those are the basics of working with text in Google slides. I know the presentation doesn't look like much currently, but it will look much better when we start adding visual elements and pictures and that we will do in the next video. 12. Visual design: Let's add some life to this presentation. The first slide is our intro slide. It is our first impression and we want to do a good job here to make it really stand out and to make it captivate people's attention. Let's say that this presentation is going to be about photography. Intro to photography. Accordingly, I downloaded some pictures from unsplash.com that we can use as visual materials here. So the first thing we want to do to start working on as the background, I'm going to go over here where it says Background. And here we can choose either a color that is going to be in the background. Done. We have a beautiful orange color here. If we want to put this color to all the slides in this presentation, we can click over here where it says Add to theme. And now we see that all the slides have this wonderful orange color. However, uh, let's put a picture into this, into the background of this first slide. And for this, I'm going to go over here where it says image, Choose Image. And now I'm just going to upload a picture that I downloaded and click Done. And now we see it. Now we can play a little bit with the text, how it's arranged. Of course, we want to put the text somewhere where it's visible because as you can see, this part over here is not that visible. It doesn't have enough contrast from the background over here. And now we can play also with the things we talked about in the previous video. And that is we can add white highlight behind it or a drop shadow. Let's remove the highlight transparent. Let's add a drop shadow that is white. Now this is a fairly decent first slide. Remember over here, we added this contact information. As we said, this is a good thing to put on every slide of your presentation, but it's not visible. So let's also play with this a little bit. Let's put it in white. Let's say that here we're going to put an e-mail address. That's name at address.com. Let's move it over here. And now we have it. What we can do to maybe make this stand out a little bit is we can add a shape by going over here and click this rectangle. And I'm going to draw a rectangle like this. And then I'm going to adapt it so that it matches what I wanted to cover. But however, what you can see is that the rectangle is now in front of the letters, so we don't see the letters. So I'm going to click the right mouse button and then order, and then I can choose send to back or sent backwards. So send to send backwards just sends it one step backward. Send to Back sends it all the way back. But still in front of the background. This is OK. Now we don't see the letters, so I'm going to change them to black. What we can do here, we can play with the color of this, this shape. So we can even put gradient, so we can choose a solid color, as you can see, but we can also choose gradients and that is often a very elegant solution for the rest of the slides. Now, let's see what we want to use as a background. Do we want to use a certain color for the background? Do we want to use a certain picture for the background? We could use this same picture or we could take something else. So let's go over the background, choose image. Let's upload. Let's take this image. Now we have this picture as the background for this slide. However, the problem is that we don't see the text now. There is not really much space around the picture where we could put the text so that it's visible just like, like here. Where we can, where we have this entire area that has a good contrast. What we can do here is we can of course play with the color of the text and with a drop shadow, the highlight and so on. But that has its downsides. For instance, if we put a white highlight, then we don't really see the picture that well. Instead, we will play a little bit with the picture to make it easier for detects to be seen. I'm going to remove this picture from the background. And instead of. Putting the background through clicking background and then choosing the picture. I'm just going to upload it directly. So I'm just going to drag this picture over here. As you can see, it doesn't fit the screen. So we have to resize it a little bit. It's important that your resize it using this diagonal thing because that precise both the height and the width. If you just use one side, then it gets distorted. Let's drag it like this. Now it covers the entire area of the slide. You can see that on this left side. If it doesn't, then you see, you see it over here. Again, we have the same problem that the picture is now in front of the text, so we don't see it. I'm going to click Order and Send to Back. Now we can play with this picture. That's the thing. If the picture is set as a background, then you can adjust the settings of it. But now we can. So if you click over here format over here, we have a lot of options that open. And one of them are, and the most important of them perhaps is transparency. If I move this slider all the way, you see that it's becoming, it's, the picture is becoming more and more transparent over here. It's completely invisible. It, even now it is even a little bit orange. That's because the actual background is orange. If we don't want to have that, I'm going to click here and then change background. So now I'm just going to change it to white. Now, you can see that this picture has a neutral color and it's transparent. And now it's easier for us to make the text visible. For starters, let's make it white. Let's put a drop shadow here. Let's do the same for this text. Now it's easier to make the text visible because the picture is somewhat transparent. And also if you wish to add it some sort of attend some sort of additional color, then you can play also with the background color. For instance, here we can make it bluish. If I click present over here, you can see that the picture, you got a certain blue tone that makes it, that is a really nice touch in my opinion. But for now, let's remove it. So this picture serves as the background now. But let's say we want to add a photo here on the slide that shows something. And let's say that this slide is about types of cameras. Here we have DSLR, we have analog, we have point and shoot. Let's move this text to the side. Let's reduce this, this, the size of this box. Let's increase the size a little bit. Let's move this to the right. Now we have some space on the right side for our picture. Let's use this one. You can see that this picture is vertical so it fits this area really well. If we want to make it horizontal, we can click over here and rotate it. We even see how many degrees. So now it's completely, it's completely horizontal. There are more options, more things we can do here. We can crop the picture. If we click over here Crop Image, now, we can cut parts out of it. Let's say we just want this lens. Now we only GOT the lens and I press Enter. And you can see this list looks a bit silly, but that was just, I was just trying to demonstrate what you can do. Another thing I always like to do with pictures like this that really makes them, gives them a professional touch is round the corners. So for that we'll go over here where the crop is, but we'll click this arrow where it says mask image, and then we'll choose a shape. Let's take this one. So now you can see that the picture looks a bit more nicely with these, with these rounded corners. If we want this contact information we added on the first slide to appear on every slide. We will select them. So I click this rectangle now and now I'm holding Shift and click the text. Now, I'll click Control and C. Over here, I will click Control and V to paste it. So now it's at the bottom of this slide as well. I can do that for the rest of the slides so that, so that this is on every slide. These are some elements that you can play with. And these are some things that you should pay attention to when making slides to make them look professional. One thing is choose high, high-quality pictures. Other thing is, make sure there is enough contrast between the text and the backgrounds. Third thing, pay attention to details like rounded corners. Make sure that the text is arranged in a way that is elegant, that is easy to read, easy to follow on the slide. It's really important to experiment a little bit, to try out different things, to see what you like, what you don't like, what looks good, what doesn't look that good? And then you will find your own style. 13. A little dose of pessimism: I don't know how many presentations or talks you personally attended, but I am pretty sure that you've been to at least one of them where something went wrong, perhaps the person's slides didn't load properly or didn't load at all. Maybe the microphone wasn't working or they brought a clicker that didn't work. I don't know how many presentations you've given, but it's also very likely that something like that happen to you too. But don't worry, it happened to me just as well. And that's pretty normal. But that is why I have a special rule when it comes to preparing for and giving presentations and that is count on something going wrong. In other words, be prepared for everything or at least anything that you can imagine. Think about all the things you need to make your presentation work. First of all, you need your slides. Second, maybe you need notes you will hold in your hands to help you present. Where will you be presenting? Are you going to use a microphone over there? Are you going to show a certain video or play a certain sound as part of your talk. Now think of all the things that could go wrong. Your slides might not work or might look differently on the computer at the venue, you'll be presenting it. You might forget to take their notes. You might lose them or maybe even spill something on them. The microphone that give you might not be working properly. The video or the audio you want it to show might not play. If you're presenting at an online event, there might be problems with your internet. 14. Who's the star of the show?: In general, people's minds are very visual. We understand the concepts and ideas best through images. This is why we use visual materials in the first place. They help people understand and remember your subject matter better. They make the presentation more engaging and even more entertaining. Because of that, it can often easily happen that the slides steal the show and become the center of attention instead of you. And this is even more likely to happen in online presentations when you share your screen. But that shouldn't be the case no matter how cool are well-designed they are, they are only lifeless slides and you are a real living person. It's your presentation. And the slides are only a tool that's supposed to support your message. How you act, how you radiate and how you deliver the presentation is much more important and contributes much, much more to the quality of your talk than the slides. As a matter of fact, I would much rather see a presentation delivered really well, but with no slides at all, then a talk where each slide is a masterpiece, but that was delivered poorly. This is also why I suggest not showing videos in your presentation. It at least definitely no videos longer than one or two minutes. People can watch videos at home anytime, but they only have this one chance to hear you speak, and that's what it came for. So if a video you would like to show is a bit longer and takes too much time. You can just show a short piece of it and then make the link to it available so that they can watch the rest of it at home. So with that said, if you're not that good at creating slides, don't worry about it. Like I said, go for a minimalistic look that doesn't take a long time and invest more time into preparing and working on your delivery of the presentation. To help you with this. In the next videos, I would like to give you a couple of techniques that are easy, easy to apply, and that will instantly make your delivery more engaging, entertaining, and easier to follow, as well as make sure that the slides support you and don't steal the show away from you. The bottom line is, remember, you are the star of the show and not your slides. 15. How to command people's attention: A good speaker should be a master of people's attention. They should be able to draw attention to themselves or directed at the slides whenever they wish. I personally called a steering the audience's attention. This way the speaker can maximize both the slides as well as their own delivery and combine them to give a truly outstanding talk. But to learn how to do that, we first need to know how attention works. Millions of years ago, humans used to live in the wild to get her with many dangerous animals. They always had to be on the lookout for danger. So they developed a mechanism where if something in their environment moved, it would instantly grab their attention. If something quickly changed, they wouldn't notice it right away. Since this straight helped our ancestors survived, we also have it even after millions of years. In other words, for humans, change is the key to attention. Generally speaking, whenever you want something to grab people's attention, make sure something changes about it. Now let's see how you can apply this more specifically. Think about where the places in your presentation are at which the audience should look at the slides because they might help you explain something better. Then think about the places in your presentation where you want your audience to pay attention to you. It's important for you to have a general idea of this because you have a very big impact on where the audience's attention goes, whether you know it or not. The first thing that is virtually always going to be the case is that the audience will look at the slides when something changes on them, either when a new slide comes along or when a new picture or bullet point appears. If you want the audience to pay attention to, you, don't switch slides at that moment. Remember whenever you switch slides, the audience will automatically look at that new slide. If you really want them to look at the slide, you can foster that even more with eye contact. When you look at the slides, most of the people in the audience will look at them too. You are on the stage and they are looking at you. So they will also intuitively look into the direction that you look at. If you're deciding in advance when you want the audience to pay attention to you and went to the slides, you can shape your slides accordingly. For example, if you want to have the people's attention, I would suggest not to put all the text on the slide at once. If you do that, they will start reading the entire text and won't be listening to you. Instead, make the bullet points appear one after another. But only when you click. This way, you can pull up one bullet points and the audience will read it. Then there were attention will shift back to you until you decide to pull up another bullet point. Now let's talk about winning the attention back to yourself. The same thing was said about change applies not only to the slides, but also to you. When you want to grab people's attention, makes something change, that can be changed in your body language. For example, make eye contact with them and make a sudden or a very wide hand gesture. This works both in offline and online presentations in a video called simply look directly at the camera, raise your hands and star gesturing. They will notice it and we'll start paying attention to you. When you were in a physical stage. You can also make a step forward towards the audience to emphasize that gesture even more. Another thing you can do is put an empty black slide into your presentation. So when that slide comes along, there will be nothing to see in the people in the audience will automatically look at you. These are some relatively subtle tricks and the audience might not even notice that you are actually in charge of where they direct their attention, but they will be doing exactly what you want them to do. If you do that well, they will be engaged the entire time. They will love your presentation and they will find extremely charismatic, maybe without even knowing why. So let's recap. A good speaker has to be able to steer the audience's attention between themselves and the slides. When you want the audience to look at this slides, pull up a new slide and you bullet point or picture. Alternatively, simply look at the slides yourself when you want to steer the audience's attention to yourself, make eye contact with the audience or the camera, throwing a white or a sudden hand gesture or make a step forward on the stage. One last method is to put in an empty, blank slide in places where you want the audience to listen to you. And when that slide appears, they will automatically pay attention. Do all of this, and you will become a real master of people's attention. 16. Your secret weapons: Body language and voice: We talked about how to make great slides that people will enjoy looking at. We talked about how to direct the audience's attention to the slides and how to draw it to yourself. Now, it's time. We also talked about how to present well and keep the audience engaged by use of nothing else than just your own body and your voice. Let's start with body language. Generally, it's important that you use open body language. Open body language means standing and moving in such a way that you're not hiding or closing off parts of your body from the audience. Crossing your arms like this is an example of closed body language and opening up your torso like this is an example of open body language. If you're in a physical stage, stand upright, don't cross your arms or your legs, and make eye contact with the audience. The simplest thing to do with your hands is to hold them like this. If you're on a video call, Keep your hands on your desk and make sure not to cover your face or your mouth, which your hands. Now let's go to the next level. Your body language is open, but now let's also make it dynamic. Remember what we said about attention. The key to attention is change. This means that in order to keep your audience's attention, your body language can't always be the same. There has to be something going on. In other words, something changing. So don't stand or sit there like a wooden statue. Use your hands. I always like to say to gesturing is like painting with your hands. Our hands help us describe the things we're talking about visually. Are you're describing a beautiful landscape with a green hills and a river flowing underneath? Or are you trying to tell people how important something is and that it has to be done right? Or are you maybe explaining how to perform a heart surgery where you have to be very precise in every millimeter matters. So let your hands speak, let them support your message and illustrate what you're saying. Explore the types of gestures you can do with it. You can do wide or narrow ones, smooth or abrupt ones, symmetrical or asymmetrical, fast and slow. So combine all of these things, mix them up a bit every once in awhile and you will keep people's attention without difficulty with that sent, the body language is only one part of your delivery. The other one is your voice. You're probably at least once had to listen to someone who had a very monotonous voice. What is it like to listen to someone like that? It's very difficult to say the least, no matter how hard you try to concentrate and pay attention to them, your mind just keeps wandering away. Why? Because they speak with the same rhythm the entire time. There is no change. So mix it up with your voice as well. Make sure to emphasize the most important points in your sentence. Make pauses here and there. Say some things a bit faster and then some other things a bit slower, or maybe even a little bit louder, and then start talking a bit more quiet. Doing this makes your voice incredibly more engaging and interesting to listen to. People will automatically be drawn to you and pay attention to what you're saying. Of course, this doesn't come naturally to everyone, but you can develop that habit with a bit of practice. What you can do is take a book, open it at a random place, and read out loud with every sentence. Experiment with these four elements, emphasis, pauses, pace, and volume. Just like I demonstrated before, think consciously about where it makes the most sense to put emphasis where you should speak louder or more quietly, faster or slower, or where you should put pauses, say the same sentence in different ways and see what sounds better. After a few times of practicing like this, you will develop an intuitive feeling for it and it will become a habit. Let's put it all together to make your delivery more engaging and make people automatically listened to you, work on your body language and your voice. Use open body language and don't hesitate to use your hands when speaking. Use different types of gestures so that they don't become a nautilus when it comes to the voice, do the same, mix up different aspects of your voice. Emphasis, pauses, pace and volume. If you're not good at this, practice it by reading out loud from a book and saying sentences in different ways. If you master this, you will never have the problem of people not listening to you. Again. 17. The microphone: A double edged sword: Live physical events and especially at bigger conferences, you will very often be given a microphone. Presenting with a microphone can be a bit tricky if you've never done it before. So let's go over some important things that you should pay attention to when you find yourself in this situation. First, we should go through different types of microphone setups so that you know what to expect and what to consider when using each one. The most common is a handheld microphone. When it comes to this one, It's very important that you hold it properly because otherwise people won't be able to hear you well, but we will come back to that in a moment. The handheld microphone can be a wireless one or a wired one. Of course, it's much easier to work with a wireless one. But if that is not the case, don't work. Just be mindful of the cable if you decide to move around the stage. In other words, pay attention to where the cable is. Be careful not to step on it or to strain it to heart. A handheld microphone can also be mounted on the stand. This is convenient because then you have your hands free to hold other things like a clicker or your notes. If you need them. On the other side, you can't move around in this case unless you take the microphone out of the stamp. Another important thing in this scenario is that the stand is adjusted to your height. The heads of the microphone should be three or four fingers below your chin and afforded five degree angle. If it's not, you can simply adjust it yourself or have someone adjusted for you before you start. Very similar to this as a microphone that's fixed to a speaker's desk. So everything we just said also goes for this setup, except that you probably won't be able to take the microphone out. So you will have to stand behind the speaker's desk the entire time. Finally, we have the hands-free microphone. This one is like a headset. It's attached behind your ears. It's wirelessly connected to the speakers. So you have your hands completely free and you can move around as you wish. The only thing you have to mind here is that the microphone is at an appropriate distance from your mouth. If it's too close, the sound quality will be very bad. So it's best to try it out before your presentation. Okay, now let's go back to the simple handheld mic as promised, because this one can also be the trickiest. If you hold the microphone too far away from your mouth, people won't be able to hear you well. However, if you hold it too close to your mouth, the sound quality will be very bad. So as a guideline, remembered this, the head of the microphone should be three fingers below your chin and you should hold it in this position at all times. And that's another very important point. So I'll repeat it. Hold the microphone in that position the entire time of your presentation. If you tend to gesture a lot, it can easily happen that you also start gesturing with a hand in which you hold the microphone. But then every time you move it away from yourself, people won't be able to hear you. Every other word will be cut out and in the end, they won't understand anything. So gesture only want with the other hand, but hold the microphone hands steady. Another thing you have to mind is never to walk in front of a speaker with a microphone. Doing that produces that extremely annoying sound. And you've probably already heard it too. It sounds just like this. You don't want to put your audience through that, so you should definitely avoid that. Finally, one last thing to think about is what you'll be holding in your hands. As many live conferences you will be giving a clicker so that you can change slides from anywhere on the stage. If you're also given a handheld microphone, that means you will have both your hands full and you won't be able to hold your notes if you were planning to do that, that might be a problem. So the best thing to do is arrive early at the venue where you will be presenting and talk to the organizer or the technician. What kind of microphones do they have and which one will you be using? Is there a microphone stand or a hands-free microphone in case you need to hold your notes. In addition, if you arrive early, you can also try the microphone out, see how to hold it properly and make sure that the volume is right, as well as the audio quality is optimal. Let's repeat the most important points. If you're invited to present to the physical event, you might be given a microphone to make sure everyone hears your wealth. There are different microphone setups and each one has its own advantages and challenges. A handheld microphone allows you to move around, but if it's a wide one, mind the cable. Make sure to hold it three fingers below your chin and always hold a microphone study. In addition, don't walk in front of a speaker with a microphone. Another possibility is a microphone stand or a speaker's disk with a fixed microphone. This allows you to have your hands free, but you will be limited in your movement. A hands-free microphone might be the most convenient option as it allows you to move around. And as the name says, Have your hands-free, whatever the case. If you can always be at the venue early so that you can meet the organizers or technicians. Make yourself familiar with the equipment you'll be using and also try it out to achieve optimal sound quality. 18. How to instantly make your video calls more engaging: Giving presentations, pitches, or even conference talks online is very common today for some of us, even more common than presenting in-person, so to say. But just because you're giving a presentation in an online call instead of a physical one, doesn't mean you should allow yourself to do it halfheartedly. So in this, in the next video, we'll discuss a few points that you should pay attention to when giving a presentation in an online call to make sure you do a great job. In this video, we'll focus on how to find the right setup for your video call. A lot of people don't do that. When we present online, we usually share our screen with the others so that they can see our slides. Then we feel like the slides are the only important thing. We completely forget that people can still also see us in that little window. And would that when neglect so many possibilities to make the presentation so much better? The first thing you should do is simply start your camera before the actual presentation when you were alone, so to speak. This way you can see what your camera display will look like without anyone else seeing. If you don't know how to do that, simply search for a camera app on your laptop or computer or just Google webcam test. There are many websites that allow you to test your camera and preview your camera display online. We're going to check three things. The background, the lighting, and the camera angle. Let's start with the background. It's important that the background in your video goes along with the impression you're trying to leave. What space do you want people to see you in? Do you want to be seen in an office, in an originally designed room, or maybe simply in front of a neutral light wall. I personally prefer the white wall because you can find it almost anywhere. It gives a good contrast and it can look both professional or relaxed. However, a simple blank wall doesn't really show much of your personality. If you want to show more of yourself in that regard, you can make an effort to arrange your background so that people can see some cool stuff in your room or office, like posters or pictures, some kind of figures who collect or just generally some interesting furniture. There is, of course, also the option of using virtual backgrounds. In other words, many video called programs give you the option to blend out your real background and put any image from your computer into it. This can be very funny. I personally love using it in more informal meetings. You can also design a background for yourself. For example, if you're representing accompany, you could use an image with accompanies logo as your virtual background. However, I would only recommend to do that if you have a green screen behind you. Otherwise the software gets a bit confused sometimes and it will look a bit chopped off at the edges. Second is lighting. Good lighting is very important because it has a great impact on your video quality and in turn, on the overall impression. The better the lighting, the better the video quality and the more professional your impression. Luckily, it's really not that hard to achieve it. Whatever light source you have, whether it's ceiling lights or a lamp, try to position it behind the camera. In other words, the light should be coming from behind the camera, but in front of you and in case your ceiling lights are not strong enough and the video is still a bit too dark. Just get an additional lamp and place it in front of yourself or diagonally from yourself, but still behind the camera. And that should do just fine. The third and final is finding the right angle for your laptop or camera. The others should be able to see you at least from the chest or from the belly upwards. If they can see just your head, they will get bored very quickly because there's not much going on, on your screen. On the other side if they can also see your hands and if your gesture with your hands while you're speaking, it will be much more interesting to watch your present. There will be paying much more attention to you. Time to recap what we learned before you start your online presentation takes some time to find the best setup for your camera. Choose a background and matches the impression you want to leave, or simply sit in front of a blank white wall to make sure the lighting is good position the light source behind the camera and in front of yourself. Finally, adjust the angle of your laptop or cameras. So did the audience can see you from the chest or belly upwards and so that they can see your hands when you're gesture while speaking. 19. Tips & tricks for presenting in video calls: Now that we've found a good setup for your video call, let's go over how to adjust your presenting style to individual called format in order to make your presentation is much more engaging and interesting to watch. As we said in the previous video in online presentations, when people share their screen, they tend to focus exclusively on the slides and completely forget that the others can still also see then in the end for the audiences, just like seeing a bunch of slides with the voiceover in the background. This is a shame because as we also said before, you are the star of the show, not the slides that goes for online presentations just as well. And as a matter of fact, in online presentations, it might be even more important to do a good job keeping people's attention because it's even easier for them to get distracted and start doing something else on their computer. If you've ever listened to an online presentation, you probably did that too sometimes. If you don't want to understand, do that during your talk, then you better put in some effort. Now, what can you do to make the online presentation more engaging? It simple, treated as if it was a physical presentation and put at least equal focus on both the slides and you're presenting. This means that you should apply everything we've talked about in the previous videos, bolts regarding attention, regarding body language and regarding the voice. Admittedly, when it comes to body language, you are a bit more limited in your possibilities because the audience can see your entire body, but there is still a lot you can do. Your have your hands in the audience, can see them if you adjust your camera, like we said in the last video and you can gesture with him. Now, I know that when you're sitting at the computer and speaking, you might not get the urge to gesture as much as you usually do, but you should still do it, even if you have to force yourself a little bit. It might feel unnatural in the beginning, but it will soon become completely normal and it will definitely be worth it. This way, you can use the same techniques of steering the audience's attention between the slides and yourself in the online setting. When you want people to focus on the slides, just look at the screen and don't gesture much. But when you want to get the attention back to yourself, look directly at the camera and gesture with your hands when it comes to the voice, there's not really that much difference between online and offline. But what often happens is that an online presentations people tend to read from their notes more instead of speaking freely and their voices become more monotonous. So keep that in mind. Don't read off the screen but talk as if you were talking to a friend and try to apply everything we've talked about regarding the voice. Don't do a half-hearted job just because you're giving an online presentation that is a wonderful opportunity for you. Very few people are actually good at presenting an online course. So when you give them a great presentation, that will make you stand out even more. And to do that, don't neglect the things we've talked about. Use your hands to gesture and make sure your hands are in front of the camera. Use the same techniques to keep and steered the audience's attention and don't read too much off the screen so that your voice doesn't become monotonous, but stays engaging and interesting. 20. We're not done yet!: We went through all important parts of preparing your presentation. However, the preparation doesn't stop once you've finished creating your slides. There is one more thing you have to prepare, and that is yourself. If you've just finished your slides and then go and give the presentation to the next day. It won't exactly, they're not brilliant. You will forget some things, your tongue will slip up. You won't be able to find the right words and to top it all, you will be very nervous. I'm sure you don't want that to happen. There is a very simple solution to it. You have to rehearse your presentation before actually giving it. Pull up your slides, get up and imagine you're in front of the audience. Give that presentation as if you're giving it for real, if you're planning to use notes on a paper, used him as well. All this will help you memorize your presentation well, it will help you navigate your notes easily and also identify places where it's easy to lose your way or forget what was coming next. When you find those places, you can practice them some more this way. That won't happen when you're out there for real. Now, I noted rehearsing can be a bit boring, but think of it as a time investment if you really care about that presentation since your watch this entire course. So up to here, I think it definitely do, then you shouldn't leave things to chance. There is a saying that goes under pressure. We don't rise to the occasion, but sink to the level of our preparation. When time comes, you will definitely be under pressure. So don't expect yourself to perform brilliantly just like depth. Prepare, memorize, and rehearse your presentation. And then when the pressure comes, when you start feeling nervous and all the I's are in you, you won't have to pull off a great performance out of nowhere, but you will just repeat what you already did alone in your room at home. So if you care about the presentation you're giving, and if you want to do a good job, there is no way around rehearsing, take your time and deliver your presentation a couple of times alone, as if you were giving it to a real audience. It will help you tremendously. And trust me, you'll be very glad that you did it. 21. Closing words: Well, my good friend, we came a long way, but we made it. You have completed this video course. Congratulations. I hope that you were able to learn a lot and even more. I hope that you will indeed apply that knowledge. It's very easy to give an average presentation. It doesn't take any effort to say, I will be fine. Just quickly put something together and hope for the best. Sure, that's easy. But if you put in an average effort, then you also have to be satisfied with average results. If that works for you, that's great. But personally, I find that very boring. Why not push yourself a little bit? See how far you can go, what you can do and what you can achieve. You've completed this course, so you do have some curiosity in you remember you're waiting for some kind of a sign. Well, if you are, this is it, put some effort into it. Try out different things. Research experiment where the things we've talked about, rehearse and you won't believe how many doors will start opening for you. And what's best as you don't even have to be extraordinarily good. Your presentations don't have to be masterpieces. But if you just put in a bit more effort, you will stand out from the rest and that will do wonders for your career and personal life. I gave you the knowledge. Now it's up to you to apply it. I hope you liked this course and if you did, I would be very thankful if you could leave a review if you wanted to learn more about public speaking, pitching, social skills, body language, or similar topics. You can also check out my other courses. If you wish to regularly get free tips and tricks, you can check out my TikTok and YouTube channels for everything else, always feel free to reach out to me through my website speech panel.com. Again. Thank you very much. I hope you enjoyed it. And as usual, I wish you all the best in everything you do. Goodbye.