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It will be your child’s birthday soon! You, as a parent knows that it is time for you to plan a great birthday party. Most parents would know what to do for their child’s birthday: Set a date, look for venue, catering, guests list, etc. Those are pretty standard stuff that you will know.

However, I believe that one of the most important aspect of a birthday is the present. After all, that is something that your child would most likely wish for and it will be something that they will treasure. So, I suggest that you put in extra considerations when you want to buy a birthday present for your child. You can buy the present yourself, or you can put it in the ‘She likes XYZ” in the invitation cards.

So what are some of the presents that your child would like? Here are some suggestions:

Boys - Boys will be boys. They will love action stuff like shooters and things on wheels. Some ideas would include slyroform shooters and toy cars. If you have a big area at home, a bicycle will be good ideas too.

Girls - Girls will prefer things that will make them pretty, although there are girls who likes wheels and shooters. In general, a toy make-up set and dresses will be great as presents for them.

What not to give – Try not to give educational items like assessment books or the boring dictionary! I know there are some children who may want these but they can be exceptional. I do have a neighbor where their 7 years old boy wanted to read unabridged version of the “Golden Compass” novel that is 300+ pages thick! Educational toys are fine, but anything that is too ‘study’ like will not be recommended.

Other ideas – There are items that are suitable for both gender. If they are above 9 years old, the items could include skates, basketball set and Nintendo DS. For younger children between 6-8 years old, they can have Lego set and Game Boy. For the children younger than 5 years old, they can have mini bikes and cars.

There are many ideas for a perfect birthday present, I would recommend that you try get your kids to giant toy stores and see what catches their eyes. Once you know, you can surprise them with the gift! If you want to be on the safer side, you can ask your child to look and select the present that they want. In that way, the children can also have the excitement of waiting for the gift that they want.

Not everyone is born to be a successful orator, and getting acquainted to the principles of this wonderful art can sometimes raise difficulties. Either they result from psychological tension caused by pressure or merely from lack of interest, most common blunders in public speaking can blow away the true meaning and charm of a well-written speech with constructive ideas.

This is why we should take note of these common presentation errors and avoid turning public speaking into a true nightmare, so we could spare us the worries and embrace success in everything we do.

Death by PowerPoint

Nevertheless, technology has brought valuable improvements to the world of business and presentations, as it offers useful visual support and makes your message easier to understand by keeping your audience entertained. However, the countless benefits of this software could only be signs of good luck if you know how to effectively use them. Don’t forget PowerPoint is there to improve your presentation where necessary and not to entirely replace you. If loaded with information, slideshows become repulsive to your audience from the first glance: nobody will pay attention to intricate pieces of info clustered into a single place. Remember this advice and use straightforward, simple notions to fill in the slides. They only have to resume the main ideas in your speech and help the audience keep them in mind. Never choose to entirely focus on a PowerPoint presentation!

This also applies to speech notes. There are speakers constantly reading their notes and therefore forgetting about eye contact, a vital part to meeting the target of the presentation! Most of these speakers also tend to turn PowerPoint slideshows into virtual speech notes and kill their presentation twice!

The Defensive Speaker

The attitude of the speaker, as well as his presence are elements with a drastical influence to the overall impact of his speech. This is a quite delicate situation, as it sometimes refers to an issue mostly depending on psychological matters.

A nervous speaker is most likely to be rigid and avoid eye contact with the audience. The speech becomes tedious and all members of the audience will only wish for the presentation to end sooner. They will feel ignored and have the impression they landed in the wrong place. Murmur would probably be their desperate way of letting you know that.

Stage Fright or Simply Careless?

A well-prepared speech gathers the attention of the audience from the very beginning. A weak, poorly motivated opening betrays a lack of confidence in your own speech and even make the strength of your arguments diminish in the eyes of the audience, as no interest would be risen from your behalf in the first place. What’s more, it is scientifically proven the first 90 seconds are vital to one’s first impression when meeting another for the first time. Why wouldn’t that apply to presentations too? So remember to always draw attention with a catchy opening.

I Happens to Have Came in Front of You Today…

This is the most painful experience a speech could ever offer its audience. Incoherence and poor language are never tolerated in the world of oratory. You should have flawless knowledge of language and vocabulary and master the art of phrases in order to keep your audience entertained and prove your point!

Ummm… errrr…

It sometimes happens to genuinely run out of ideas or simply forget, for a few seconds, what is that you wanted to say. It is better for you to keep a few moments of complete silence instead of filling in the gaps with “ummm” and “errrrr”. They disrupt the natural flow of your ideas and annoy the members of your audience by forcing them to repeatedly lose focus and focus again. Make speech notes to ensure your fluency and rely on in case this ever happens, it is natural.

Bond. Audience Bond.

Last, but not least, do keep in mind to always connect to the audience. People value emotions and are more likely to genuinely welcome your message if you also rely on empathy. No one will have any memory of a distant speaker, as these speakers tend to keep their speeches distant as well. However, be careful not to exaggerate with connecting!

Business presentations are a collateral reflection of who you are. A glimpse of your personality could be seen in the ways and the content of your presentation.

The way you carry yourself, the way you speak, deliver your sentences, tackle tricky questions with confidence and successfully convey your message, speak volumes about your personality.

Still, there are much more ways in which you can support your business presentation to reach its maximum potential.

HIGHLIGHT YOUR SUPERPOWER

A positive way to keep your audience attentive to you is to show them that you are worth their time and trust. Rather than speaking about your achievements and future goals, speak about your credibility because if even little points will exist with which the crowd will not feel connected to then the tables will instantly turn.

Talk about your goals within the first few minutes of the presentation

Choose your presentation design which corresponds with your goals, which should be introduced to your audience as early as possible. This will help your audience to correlate what you are expressing with the ‘why’ and ‘what’ you want to achieve.

Never underestimate the impact of a powerful image/quote

A business presentation is usually a collection of fertile ideas, knit together as one to illustrate a larger picture. So, the smart use of different images/quotes to introduce different ideas will supply more power to your presentation. Vocalising the quotes or speaking few important words out loud will bring your presentation to life, especially if the presentation has numerous bar graphs, bullet points, and pie charts.

GIVE YOUR AUDIENCE THE POWER TO BRAINSTORM OVER YOUR QUESTIONS

One of the unbeatable ways to make your presentation more interactive is to begin it with a question which you, yourself will answer. Like you can start with “I asked myself what all can my team will be able to do and contribution for making this project a success?”. So, based on this question you can build up your presentation. Be alert to all the questions from your audience as they are icebergs of curiosity. The more you will suffice your audience, the stronger their trust will grow in you.

Be ready to tackle tough questions

Always be confident and logical at answering the questions from the audience. There will always be questions whose responses if given without solid facts and coherence, will put your image down in your crowd’s eyes. If you know your topic as well as you’re your audience, then always keep your business binary clean and do not ever shelve any question from the audience.

KEEP YOUR OWN QUESTIONS READY IF NOBODY ASKS YOU ANY

It could be a possibility that your audience is shy or somewhat hesitant to ask you questions about your presentations. Always remember, if you face this kind of a situation, then always compose a question to yourself because ‘zero curiosity’ turns into ‘zero interest’ overnight.

Take your crowd on a final journey

Always take your crowd on a final journey before you wrap up the presentation. Highlight all the important points and tell the crowd how they will be productive if given proper attention by the appropriate crowd.

Keeping the immense support in mind which we get from the PowerPoint presentations, one should also be able to support her/himself equally well during the closing moments of the presentation because humans invented the PowerPoint and not vice versa.