Too many people think that if they only had a better PowerPoint they would have a better presentation. Probably not. Your PowerPoint should support your presentation. It should never become your presentation.

If you want your presentations to really come to life you need to put more focus on how and where you practice. Don't wait until the night before your presentation when anxiety is high to start cramming and practicing. It's too late.

The key is to practice when anxiety is low, when there is little at stake and when you can use feedback to adjust key elements of your presentation without feeling like you "bombed."

In this video I'll show you two approaches to improve your presentation without even touching your PowerPoint!

If you get a high level of anxiety before or during a presentation welcome to the club. Most people do. It's actually natural. The problem is the anxiety interferes with your performance in front of the room. Sure, knowing your content will help you feel more in control. But you also have to understand why you feel the anxiety in the first place and how to put it to use to transform it into something possible.

Yes, what you may think of as fear can actually be something you harness to improve your presentation performance.

In this video I'll show you how to reframe fear into something far more useful and how to use your body to regain control of yourself and your emotions before and during every presentation.

Relying on a script for your presentation pulls your attention away from where it belongs—on the audience. When you use a script your attention invariably falls on the script so you don't lose your place. When you are focusing on your script you aren't focusing on your audience. That's not a fair exchange. You want the audience to focus on you right? Well, doesn't the audience deserve your attention and focus too? Scripts usually get in the way.

In this video, I'll show you a better way to stay connected to your content and your audience.