You might be fooled into thinking that every business presenter knows the purpose of their presentation. But do they really know their purpose, or is it just a vague notion? Find out how to test and hone the purpose of your presentation. The clearer your purpose, the easier everything else becomes.

Successful presenters have laser like focus on their presentation content. Learn the critical questions to ask yourself once you have established your presentation purpose, and before you do anything else.

How much presentation planning do we really do? For many people the answer is 'not very much' The most common tool used in planning is widely known as cut and paste. It goes like this: Have I done a similar presentation to this before? If not, do I know someone who has? For the sake of clarity, No - cut and paste is NOT really planning. Here are four easy to use presentation planning tools that can help you plan your presentation. Using planning tools will ultimately save you time as it greatly increases the chances of getting your message across clearly first time.

   This lesson introduces you to three key business presentation principles that you should follow for all your presentations, whether business or personal. You will find we keep referring to these as we move through the course, and you will unfortunately remember sitting (or possibly sleeping) through many presentations where one or more of these business presentation principles have not been followed successfully.

Nervous presenters give the game away. Complete this short activity to think about how business presenters inadvertantly let their audience know they are nervous.

Compare your list of Nervous Tells with the most common ones.

Here are some key tips to help you manage your presentation nerves.

They say practice makes perfect, so why do so many of us cut it down to the minimum, or do none at all? Here are some practice tips and an example of one of my own practice sessions.

Avoiding mixed messages is essential if you want your ideas and key messages heard. This lesson helps you understand the common causes of mixed messages and how they impact your presentation and audience.

A short activity to start thinking about posture and movement. What do you believe works for good presenters and what gets in the way of delivering their message.

How we stand when giving a presentation makes a significant difference to how our audience perceives us, and our message. There are no hard and fast rules, but here are some straightforward guidelines and principles to follow.

When speaking in public we often forget what to do with our hands. Here are some straightforward tips to help.

Maintaining eye contact with your audience during your presentation is important. This lesson provides you with some useful strategies to adopt and some traps to avoid.

Compare your list from lecture 9 to this summary of the key messages. How did you do?

Your voice is the most important tool at your disposal as a presenter and public speaker. Your voice is driven by muscles, and like any other muscles they benefit from targeted preparation and maintenance. Here are some exercises to warm up and strengthen your voice.

How to use your voice to add colour to your presentations and connect with your audience. This is potentially one of the most under utilised presentation tools for business presenters.

Researchers believe they have discovered the elements that make the 'perfect voice'. This simple exercise will enable you to benchmark yourself against two of those key elements. 

Here are some practice ideas to help you better understand your voice and how to use it in your presentations.

Get the most from your course. It is great that you have invested the time and money to further develop your skills. However, the story doesn't end there. The real value you get is from putting your learning into action by changing your habits and trying out new ideas and approaches.

No more boring presentations. Engage with your audience using these straight forward success strategies based on the work of Chip and Dan Heath. Incorporating these techniques into your content as you develop your presentation will significantly improve your audience engagement.

It is impossible to over emphasize how important simplicity is in effective presentation. Getting to the core of your message and communicating it clearly separates highly successful presenters from the rest. Strive to keep things as simple as possible.

Raise your audience levels of interest and curiosity without tricks and gimmicks.

Explore this critical strategy to make things 'real' for your audience. The more you can link your content to the audiences everyday experiences the more engaged they will become.

How do you you encourage your audience to believe what you say matters? By establishing your credibility.

Find out why emotion matters.

We all love stories. Find out why they are such an important element of engaging your audience.

This formula is at the heart of great presentation, so it's definitely worth reminding yourself of the key elements before applying them to your presentation.

Here is a great opportunity to see SUCCES in action. Watch this video of the Toastmasters 2015 World Champion of Public Speaking. Before you watch it, download the SUCCES analysis document, and as you watch, make a note of examples of the differing elements being used. There are plenty to find.