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One quality that sticks out to me as make or break in athletics and is common among all the greats is confidence. You never see someone win the gold medal at the Olympics who is timid or unsure of his or her abilities. It’s a quality that can truly take someone from good to great in anything. This goes for pitches and presentations too. Ever walk away from a speaker who moved or inspired you that wasn’t confident about their subject or their mastery of it?

Here are three tips to get you more confident before your next speech so you thrive next time you step in front a group of people.

Know your stuff: This would equate to having great fundamentals in sports. These are the things that are the foundation of your skill, and in your speech it is really as simple as knowing your topic well. Be familiar with the subject, so that you can answer questions, and be able to adjust in case something goes wrong. You’ll be more comfortable and your audience will sense it.

Practice: Pretty obvious, but I think it’s still important to point it out. You are never going to be confident giving a speech if the first time you present is in front of your audience for the real deal. No athlete competes without putting in hours at the gym or on the practice field first. Practice out loud, and try to practice it at least once in front of another person… dogs don’t count here. My goal is always to practice the full speech three times before the real one.

Posture: Someone in your life has probably told you to stand up straight or not to slouch; well for presenting they were dead right. This helps in two ways. The first is that it makes you look more confident to your audience, and that means they’ll be more receptive to your message and view you as the authority. The second is physiological. When you stand up straight and push your shoulders back your brain actually produces hormones that make you more confident and less stressed. It’s important during your presentation, but I would like to challenge you to practice it all day. I like to use doorways to remind myself. Every time I walk through a doorway I try to check my posture and correct it if I can.

There you have it, 3 easy ways to be more confident (or at least seem more confident) in your presentations and pitches. Know your stuff, practice your presentation 3 times, and practice good posture (hopefully all day).

Try them out for your next big speech and reap the rewards of a more powerful message.

Offline communication and presentation give a range of possibilities to deliver your ideas in the most efficient way. On the one hand you can’t rely on your personal intonation or appearance, but you can make visitors like your web-site, using some specific techniques.

By visual channels we don’t talk about means for delivering video or a sequence of frames, but the channel of perception. It is the way you get the information. There are 5 main channels that deliver you the data about the world around: visual, tactile, olfaction, audition and taste. There are only 2 of them that can be affected through the web.

The essential fact about the web is that the key role is played by the visual information. As we know, the information theory of visual communication encompasses the following aspects:

1. Image gathering – the capture of the radiance field.

2. Signal coding – encoding of the acquired signal for the further transmission and/or storage.

3. Image restoration – transforming digital representation of the scene into a continuous.

4. Human vision – image systems assessment (information rate that the eye of the observer conveys from the displayed image to the higher levels of the brain).

In the real world more than 75% of the information is received through the visual channel. You can also implement audio effects, nut there are plenty of shortcuts of using sounds online. Actually, it is not recommended.

For example, when making a presentation, we’d rather use slides and video, than just keynotes without any slides. A set of slides is an effective part of a talk, that represents a visual channel complementing the audio channel (spoken words).

Be sure, that visual elements you choose match your words. Visual channel needs to make the same point, but in a different way. The same thing is also relevant for photos – they should tenuously go with the talk. Images not only make your presentation more vivid, but also serve as a source of important information.

Use simple diagrams and info graphics that help to illustrate, and thus better explain, your word through their visual positioning.

As for motion, it’s not uncommon to use animations on slides, but do not overestimate the capabilities of the presentation software. You can practically always use fancy 3D cube rotation animation and flash animation for semantically rich visual channel.

So, use visual effects that are not only eye-candy, but also help communicate the point you are making. Use your voice as the main audio source when making a presentation, but avoid sound on your web-site.