Pecha Kucha - The art of a good presentation

If you are able to make a good presentation and are able to deliver it in a confident manner, you will go far in the world. The worlds most confident speaker can ruin a nervous speaker in a matter of minutes even if the nervous speaker's point is clearly good. Below is a video by Don McMillan which points out all the bad things that you can do when making a speech. From experience, reading several articles and watching some very well known public speakers, such as Al Gore and Bill Gates I think I can summarise how to make a good speech:

• Speak with Confidence, let the talk flow
• Do not speak for hours while not actually giving any facts, i.e. do not waffle
• MINIMALISM, simplicity is the key
• Know your topic
• Have prompters in front of you, but DO NOT have your head in a sheet of paper reading your speech

In my opinion when writing a speech follow Pecha Kucha. This is a method of speech writing where you have 20 slides, and each slide only lasts 20 seconds. Of course this can not work for all speeches as some are much longer than 6 minutes 40 and others a lot shorter, however it is a good concept to try and follow.