Top 10 rules to Follow before Presentation

When you are about to give an important presentation, it is very difficult to add some different content and set your mind with new ideas which previously were not included.

• You have set the basics of your presentation, which includes PowerPoint slides, the audience whom you are going to address and the place where you will be tested as a presenter.
• Now you cannot move backwards, you have to present yourself as a speaker.
• In this type of condition, certain types of anxiety and fear can be generated which will ultimately hurt your presentation. So to avoid this type of situation there are some rules which can be helpful for you to be an efficient speaker.

Here are the rules which you are supposed to follow if you want to be the best in your presentation:

Go to the washroom:

• It is very common in these types of situations that in anxiety a person needs to go to the toilet. So don’t be shy and use it that will make you comfortable.
• Holding it back will just bring your confidence level down and will make you nervous which is not good for your presentation.

Check the area of presentation:

• Visit the presentation hall first and analyze everything there.
• By doing so you will be familiar with the place and that will reduce your anxiety.
• Seating arrangements and probability for many audiences can be known. It will create a scenario in your mind and boost your confidence.

Have a conversation with some persons from your audience:

• Have some chit-chat with some people and it will help you in two ways.
• Firstly it will give you some additional ideas which come from different minds
• Secondly, you will become familiar with your audience.
• Strangers will no longer be strange to you. You will feel relaxed like you are talking to your friends.

Use long and deep breaths:

• It is a scientific reason that anxiety blocks the muscle’s movement and makes them tight, amount of oxygen also decreases.
• So taking long deep breaths will give you the power because it will increase the amount of inhaling oxygen, ultimately reducing anxiety.

Make opening sentences in your mind:

• Create the structure of sentences in your mind that you want to say in the opening of the presentation.
• You will start with any saying or your own life story, and when you will know how you will start your presentation, that will give you a lot of energy in the shape of confidence.

Think positively:

• During the presentation, negative feelings will come into your mind, just like the feelings of fear and nervousness.
• You have to replace these negative feelings with positive ones i.e. using sentences like “I can do it”, “Others are unknown to the topic and I am the only one who is an expert”.

Keep on smiling:

• Wear a smile on your face to look pleasant.
• Smiling relaxes the muscles of your face and helps your brain to keep calm.
• This technique will help you in the sense that it will create a positive impression in the minds of listeners that you are confident.

Drink water:

• Before your presentation, do not eat junk food only drink water at room temperature.
• Eating junk food will leave a feeling of vomiting in anxiety but drinking water will relax you.

Do some exercise:

• Before the presentation go to some private place and do some light exercising just like stretching and bending your arm. It will give you good feelings.

Stand up sometime before the presentation:

• If your turn is just about to come and you are backstage, stand up there do not sit.
• Sitting will make you inactive and motionless but standing up will keep you warm up and ready for presentation.

Conclusion:

Generally, every person feels nervousness and anxiety on the stage while presenting some topic. Finishing these sorts of feelings is not possible. We can only control these feelings with psychological games. These ten rules are very helpful to make you psychologically strong to overcome these negative feelings and present yourself as a confident and dynamic personality on the stage.