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8 Ways to Enrich Your Presentation Skills
1. Get into Toastmasters.
Toastmasters is a organization where you will get a chance to work on your impromptu speaking skills, leadership skills, evaluation skills as well as opportunities to practice specific skills in prepare presentations (at your own pace). Clubs typically meet weekly and you can find clubs that meet in the morning, evening, lunchtime to meet your schedule. I highly recommend this! Find a club and attend to learn much more.
2. Consider the Dale Carnegie Course.
This course is amazing! It is more than simply speaking and presentation skills. You will be able to practice a lot, though. It is a fabulous workshop where confidence is raised to the highest levels. This workshop is more expensive than Toastmasters but is an excellent program to help with presentation skills, confidence and more.
3. Alternatives and other opportunities at work.
You can always find alternatives to pump your skills. You cannot expect someone to come knock at your door. You should get ready to go get them! You can always ask for extra tasks at work. Speak to your boss and let him or her know that you are interested in other activities. Maybe you will get an opportunity to speak in front of an audience. Small meeting are always a good option.
4. Opportunities outside office.
You can always join other groups like church groups, a club, etc. to improve your skills.
5. Get feedback from the audience.
Every time you speak ask someone to give you feedback. Ask a trusted friend or colleague to tell you what they saw, heard and observed. Ask one of them to provide you feedback after they are in your audience.
6. Video and Record yourself while speaking.
Video recording yourself giving and going through it is a powerful way of rectifying your mistakes and improving them. This will enable you to develop yourself without taking the help from others and sometimes it helps a lot for the people who are a bit shy.
7. One thing at a time.
Don't expect to achieve results overnight and to go crazy about it. You cannot expect to work on everything at the same time. Pick a specific theme and go for it! Following this step by step process will help in improving your skills swiftly. You should also ask for feedback from your friends who are present during the presentations.
8. Attend Karaoke
If you can use your skills to get a bunch of uninterested, rowdy (drunk!) people to pay attention to you, you have learned valuable skills that translate to presenting "non-singing" material.
