Presentation Hacks: It's a performance

I have found using a screen capture program to capture your presentation while your rehearsing is very useful, there are lots of free and open source ones out there. You have your power point and you basically go through the slides, presenting to your screen capture program. after you can review the video and make changes accordingly. I have also noticed that the real presentation ends up being ~1 1/2 to 2 times as long as your rehearsed version.. this is probably because when i present i force myself to go slow and I always ask the audience to interrupt me when they have questions, therefore you get immediate feedback and you can change things up on the fly

I learned a lot from this: http://www.amazon.com/Stand-Deliver-Carnegie-Method-Speaking...

Part of it is common sense, but I found it useful to see it systematized and explained.

A thing that I'm realizing more and more is how few presentations are one-offs; that is, when you're developing a presentation, it's actually going to become part of your repertoire, and you're going to be able to use it again and again. Convention and conference speakers certainly reuse presentations, but the same applies to entrepreneurs (to investors) and employees (to senior stakeholders).

Rehearsal and practice became more palatable to me once I came to see individual presentations as permanent fixtures in my professional archive of works.