How to give successful presentations ? PART I Of course, there are many ways to present, according of the organizational context, in diplomatic, political, scientific occasion etc. The way to communicate has changed during the decades, at the same time in which the language is transformed by the social reality, the environment in question, and the way people think, the way people act and because of the actual needs of your audience. For example, nowadays, in the world of business, the formality is not the same with the increase of young entrepreneurs and the internet influence in the market, the communication are more informal and more objective as result. Therefore, considering the social and the business context, the presentations became more a kind of interaction than an exposure, even when the audience stay in silence. I’ll explain why. CONSIDER THESE 6 POINT Audience: The people who you’ll interact. • Who are them? To know who they are, will give you confidence and will can drive you presentation without mistakes. Knowing what offend them, what they disapprove. • They know about your subject? Try to Certificate yourself about it, it’s extremely important because you’ll know how long will be your introduction and how many concepts you should give. • How much your subject is important to them? Even when they know or do not know about the subject, you have to have idea about the relevance to them; try to make evident this importance choosing applied examples, using familiar characteristics to help them better understand you. Subject: the object of you talk • Why you’ll talk about it? Remember to yourself the object of this talk, and how this presentation will attend the purpose. • Have you a purpose? Find a purpose, no matter what is it, but have awareness in what you want to cause to your audience it’s important, it can brings sense to you, and make them identify with. • Do you know enough about the subject? Yeah, nobody in the room should know more about the theme than you, of course, not always you’ll be the best in a specific subject. It’s can depends, but try to know the most you can. You should select well the important points, and build a clear structure in which would be interesting and easy to drive your talk. Remember this knowledge will be shared, this knowledge it isn’t only yours, try to make it really clear to you first! This will help you lead well with questions in a wise way if you know that you are just sharing not teaching.