Presentation Patterns: Techniques for Crafting Better Presentations

Part III: Deliver

After you’ve built the killer presentation, nearly all that remains is to deliver it. This section highlights techniques to make your actual “standing in front of the room” presentation better, along with common pitfalls to avoid.

Stage Prep covers important details you must cover shortly before you present, including some techniques to help sway the crowd.

In this book’s first two parts, we intermixed patterns and antipatterns to suit each chapter’s context. However, performance antipatterns are a special case; they can undermine even your best preparatory efforts and frequently manifest as bad habits. Thus we devote a full chapter to Performance Antipatterns—things you should avoid during the performance part of your presentation. ...