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In presentations, get to the point! And do it early. In the introduction, tell the audience why you’re really there. Use the word "that".

Beginners avoid silence. That’s because they sense that it's in momentary silences that an audience can most easily see through them. So they mask their vulnerability with 'um'.  So, it's understandable but wrong and we all know it.

The goal, of course, is the opposite—to be a presenter in such relaxed control that you can hold deliberate silence in appropriate places. The longer you can hold silence, the more status the audience will award you.

  1. Presenting to bigger audiences: what's the difference?
  2. Body language: in presentations your words are not enough!
  3. When answering questions, share the reply with the whole audience
  4. Confidence and the myth of the presentations X factor

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