If you are presenting to a large crowd, I recommend you move around while presenting. This way you are closer to the audience and enables better eye contact. If you are presenting in a conference room to a very small crowd , you can choose to stand still on one side of the screen. For which side, click here . Having said this, do what naturally comes to you. If you are not at all comfortable moving around, you can choose to stand at one place. I recently attended Nielsen 360; a marketing conference wherein most presenters except two were moving around. The guys who did not move also did well. Finally what matters if your confidence, your preparation and your content. Finally, my answer is: try to move around. If you just can't, forget everything and stand still.

There are zillions of presentation tips in this world. My own blog has more than 460 posts and I must have shared more than 100 tips by now. Every tip is meant to make you a better presenter. But it is not possible for you to follow all the tips in your next presentation. Hence, I present to you just 3 tips. I believe some tips are more powerful than others. If you follow just these 3 tips in the next presentation you make, you will drastically improve as a presenter. Why? Because these three tips address the biggest weaknesses we have as presenters. They are also related to the most important part of making a presentations. #1 Practice. Practice. Practice. Rehearse your presentation before you deliver it to your audience. Rehearse it at least 5 to 10 times. Rehearse it as you would present it eventually. So stand up and start talking. Most presenters never rehearse their presentations this way, and end up fumbling. The ideas do not flow properly. They forget what comes on the...

There are many books on presentations and you cannot read all of them. Here is a list of 3 awesome books which will give you a solid head start and improve you as a presenter and communicator. #1 Made to Stick: For Content This book is about communication in general. It talks about how we can make our messages more sticky. In this age of information overload, the biggest obstacle we face as presenters is the reduced attention span of our audience and their limited capacity to understand and retain what we have said. This book will give you the tools to make your message more sticky. Read by short book review here. #2 Confessions of a Public Speaker: For Delivery While most books on presentations focus on the preparation and slide design, this book focuses mostly on delivery; how to stand up and speak. It is a wonderful book which will help you overcome your fear of public speaking and also share many tips and tricks to improve as a speaker. Read the crux of this book ...

Steal Like an Artist is an interesting book about becoming more creative in whatever you do in life. Since making presentations is a creative work, this book is relevant for all of us. The assumption of the author Austin Kleon is that no one is a born creative genius. We have to keep our creativity alive through various ways. In this book he has shared many things which will make you more creative. Here are the ones I have liked: 1. Steal ideas from everywhere. By stealing he means influence & inspiration. Look around carefully and get inspired. Do not waste time in creating something totally new. Applied to presentations: Watch presentations on TED and slideshare . Get inspired. Use tricks and tips which you learn from these presentation into your own presentation. This will improve your own work. 2. Choose a hero in your field of study.  Read about your hero and his/her life. Go through all her work and see how you can add to that body of work. Practice what you...