1. Consider your audience: Making sure you understand your audience is essential to preparing, structuring and giving presentations. It’s usually the first step to take, as in many cases, the audience determines what styles of presenting you can choose from. For example, presenting important annual reports to higher-level management requires a different approach than presenting weekly project updates to your colleagues.

2. Introduce yourself and the information you’re about to deliver: At the start of your presentation, briefly introduce the subject of your presentation. Doing this gives your audience a chance to better understand the cause of the meeting and what they can expect to hear from you.

3. Use simple language: It’s important when delivering a presentation to speak in a way that’s easy to follow and understand. If you’re preparing a presentation from a research paper that uses a lot of complicated technical terms, it may be a good idea to simplify the spoken language. For example, you can use contractions and more casual speech. If including complex terms and phrases is essential, consider explaining them verbally as you introduce each slide or graph.

4. Engage your audience: As you go through your slides and notes, consider incorporating some visual or audio elements to break up more significant sections of your speech. You may also ask your audience some questions. This way, you can make sure they’re engaged and understand the information.

5. Memorise the presentation: Memorising your presentation, including some of the most important numbers or statistics, is a great way to prepare for delivering information to an audience. This way, you can look them directly in the eyes while you speak and quickly react to any questions that they may have.

6. Work on your body language: Your body language tells your audience a lot about how you’re feeling. Using common tricks and working on your body language allows you to appear more professional and deliver a dynamic, interesting speech. In addition to keeping eye contact with your audience, remember to maintain an open and communicative posture.

7. Practice: Spending a substantial amount of time practising your presentation can help you feel more confident when you’re delivering it in front of an audience. After you’ve finished writing your script or taking notes on what you want to cover during your presentation, practice it repeatedly so that you more easily remember the most important points you want to make, the links between those points and the phrases that most clearly express them. Check the timing of your presentation with the slides.

8. Focus on your movements: If you’re delivering a presentation on a big stage, it may be a good idea to move around a little to create some visual interest and keep people engaged. This also allows you to speak directly to different parts of the audience. Scanning through the audience and looking at people’s faces is a great way to identify if they can easily understand what you’re saying.