I am planning to build a smartphone application. An App which allows presenters to get instant feedback from the audience. To my knowledge, nothing of this sort exists today.  I want you to suggest a name for the app and also share your feedback about it. What is the problem? As presenters, we don't get honest feedback from our audience. Sometimes it is not easy to give feedback to presenters. Most of us feel we are very good presenters (which is untrue). Some feel they are very bad. We all need honest feedback from our audience. What is the solution? A mobile app which allows your audience to share feedback anonymously and instantly. It will work great in all sorts of presentation situations. How will the app work? Every presenter needs to create a login. They will get a username. At the end of the presentation, they can share the username with the audience. The  audience installs the app and types in the 'username.' They can share their feedback. Overall sco...

Human beings love stories. We read fiction and we watch movies. Stories convey information in an easily digestible fashion. Yet, few presenters share stories. Here is one simple way which will help you come up with stories for every presentation. Go back to your experiences and find out what shaped your current opinion (point of view). In every presentation you are sharing your point of view. You are presenting to your CEO and asking her to launch a new brand. You are presenting to your employees and asking them to follow some new rules. Why? What makes you believe in your argument? To discover what stories to tell, all you need is to ask yourself; "Why do I have this point of view?" What incidents led me to have this belief? You will start discovering anecdotes and incidents which happened to you or to somebody you know. These incidents and events shaped your existing point of view. Use these into your presentation. Share the story and then put forth your argument.

Every presentation book and blog asks us to say a story in our presentation. Easier said than done. Do you share stories in your presentation? How do you come up with these stories? I'll await your answers on this. To me saying a story is the toughest thing in a presentation.

A slide like this is normal. Full of text. Boring and dull. Remove every piece of text from this slide and replace it with an image which 'connotes' location. Use a large size image to cover the entire slide. Have no more than few words on the image. That's it. I have created a sample for reference purpose only. I have used an image from Google search. Ensure before you use an image, you check its usage rights. With this slide, you need to remember what to say on this slide. There is no list to save you. But with a little bit of practice the list would not be needed. Put in some hard work and make the slide (and the presentation) more likable for your audience.