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A good public speaker always knows his material while giving a speech. The speaker must always have a complete knowledge of the subject he is speaking on. After all, a mechanic cannot speak on the right way to cook a steak.

The speaker should be an expert in the subject he is going to deliver a speech on. This is really important as the audience must feel like that the speaker is well informed. If a speaker wants to be seen as a great public speaker, then he must know his craft well enough.

The following are three steps which will help you in learn your material to speak in an oral presentation or public address:

1. Make an outline.

Any oral presentation or public is like a battle for the speaker and it is foolish to fight a battle without any preparation. In order to make your presentation interesting and informative, you should arrange all the required equipments much before the day of the presentation. Research and accumulate all the material you want to study to make your presentation. Read all the material and take out important points which may be useful in your presentation.

Then you can read those points by don’t memorize them as if you forget something during the presentation, then your whole speech will get ruined. While preparing a speech being spontaneous is the best choice. But you must also sound knowledgeable while talking because you may have to answer few questions about your presentation and you should sound confident while answering them. You may look anxious, if you don’t know the topic well.

2. Review the outcome of the actual speech.

Once the speech is prepared, you must review your entire presentation once more. Make sure whether you have covered all the important points in your speech or not. For example, suppose you have to deliver a speech on the Hybrid Technology, now even though may have discussed all the technical terms and other aspects of the technology but have forgotten to give any examples of this technology. Such type of omissions should be rectified.

It is very important to pay due attention to every aspect of the subject you are going to speak on as you may be asked about some topic you forgot to mention from your audience.

3. Rehearse and master your final material.

While given the responsibility of any presentation, you will be told about how long the presentation will run. Hence you must rehearse the entire presentation beforehand to make sure that it runs for the required time only. If your presentation is long then you can shorten it or add some points if it is too short.

Rehearsing also helps us gain our confidence as by hearing ourselves giving the speech we get an idea about the actual presentation and we can also improve any glitches in our speech.

We all have to be smart about the money that we spend this Christmas. With the economy in the shape that it is in, we really need to make sure that we spend our money as wisely as possible.

Instead of purchasing presents just for the sake of having lots of pretty boxes under the Christmas tree this year, why not give family presents that everyone will enjoy? Is there something that you are planning on purchasing for the house anyway? If that something is something that everyone in the family wants, wouldn’t it make a great gift for the whole family?

How long has it been since you’ve purchased a new TV? We had been wanting to replace the tv in our family room with a new flat screen TV but since our old TV was still adequate, we just hadn’t replaced it. All of the kids reminded us every time we sat down to watch a movie or a baseball game how great it would be to have a nice big flat screen TV.

So, when they least expected it, we surprised everyone and had a new TV all set up and ready to watch last Christmas morning.

They couldn’t have been happier. We all had really wanted this big flat screen TV for quite a while yet, we just didn’t see how we could buy it with Christmas coming. Then we thought about the types of things that we would be buying for Christmas and thought, why were we spending our money on things that we weren’t even sure would get used more than a week after Christmas when what we really all wanted was a new tv that we knew would get used for years to come?

Money doesn’t come easy. Make sure that you spend it on what you really want and need; on what you will get your best value from, on what will give your family enjoyment for years.

If there is something that your family would really love and it will provide hours of great time spent together, seriously consider making it a great family gift this Christmas.

Typified by the ever present PowerPoint slide deck the modern business presentation can be an exhausting affair for both speaker and audience. Barraged by information overload an exhausted audience is in no position to listen, participate in or understand our presentation.

But without laboring either the problems of PowerPoint or its many advantages there are some essential techniques with which we can improve our own performance. Our control over the images and text projected on to the screen give us a mastery that is too often overlooked.

You should recognize the following scenario. Our speaker starts their talk, looks down at their notebook, looks across to the screen seeking inspiration and then, fleetingly, looks at the audience. In looking at the screen the speaker has made no reference to its content. And the speaker has missed two opportunities.

By not referencing the content on the projection screen our speaker missed an opportunity to demonstrate subject knowledge and expertise. And our speaker missed the opportunity to ensure that the audience was listening, participating and understanding. The scenario is not uncommon. It is repeated every day coast to coast. And it makes one question whether there is in fact a link between the presenter’s words and their slide deck. Well there is a link and it is of vital importance.

But the link is often lost with busy and complex slides that neither reinforce nor support the speaker’s words. And it is essential that they do either one or both functions. A slide deck that performs neither is wasted work. A better plan might include:

• Build less busy slides with less text and fewer bullet points.
• Make one main point for each slide.
• Use the picture and graphing components in PowerPoint to greater effect.
• Use the build function within the PowerPoint package.
• Learn the material and practice.
• Develop a familiarity with the subject.

But the plan is incomplete without some technique that can also be used. It’s a technique that should be familiar to most of us from our school days – though it was a case of chalk and blackboard in my days – and is easily learned.

The technique is used to reference the contents of the slide deck projected onto the screen. The justification for its use is simple. Surely, if the slide content merits display then it also merits both reference and explanation. And explanation is essential as we look for the slide content to support and reinforce our own words.

The technique involves:

• Speak.
• Pause.
• Point at the content – using a pointer.
• Turn to look at the audience.
• Talk – and explain.

This overlooked technique -point, turn & talk -gives us the opportunity to reinforce eye contact with the audience. As we establish eye contact with the audience we project our knowledge of the subject, we build participation and, importantly, we develop understanding. Understanding is greatly improved since eye contact allows us to gauge the clarity of our words and be alert to puzzled expressions in the audience. Coupled with clearer and less busy slide content this effective technique is invaluable for the typical business PowerPoint presentation.