Too nervous to report on stage? The following 5 points will make your report more exciting!

1. Pay attention to and understand the needs of your audience

Your presentation should be prepared based on what the audience wants from your presentation. You tell your audience what they want to know, not what you want to tell them. When reporting, you also want to keep an eye on your audience's reaction and respond immediately. If the content of the report is difficult to understand, you should also give appropriate examples from life to illustrate it in a way that is easier for the audience to understand.

2. Keep it as short as possible: focus on the core of your topic

When reporting, you can break down the core themes you want to convey into three key takeaways and expand the narrative to explain them. Try to ask yourself to report in more precise and concise terms. In addition to avoiding too long and redundant, more importantly, you can show your professionalism and make your performance more eye-catching.

3. Smile and make eye contact with the audience

If you make eye contact with the audience while you're reporting, you've established some kind of connection with the audience. This connection will make the audience willing to focus on listening to your report, rather than wandering the world. Smiling can also help reduce your nervousness and make you appear more confident. Therefore, when reporting on stage, it is not necessary to turn off all the lights for PPT projection. Properly maintain the brightness of the room so that the audience can see the expression on your face.

4. Powerful opener

The opening statement is crucial. You need to hold the audience's attention right from the start. You'll have a few minutes to pique the audience's interest in you. If your opening is bland, the audience will start to lose interest and stop paying attention to you. You can try opening a story with a story, or use an eye-catching image (relevant to the content) on the PowerPoint.

5. Follow the PPT 10-20-30 principle

American marketing expert Guy Kawasaki was one of Apple's earliest employees. The 10-20-30 principle of PPT comes from him. Guy believes that PPT should:

· contains but does not exceed 10 pages;

· The reporting time shall not exceed 20 minutes;

· Use a font size no smaller than 30 points.

 This last point is especially important because it stops you from trying to put too much content on any one slide. Basically, a slideshow should contain less, not more, information, the function of a PPT is to simply express the main point of what you said, not your speech.

Those are the 5 tips to make your report even better! In any case, during the reporting process, the most important thing is to stay calm and enjoy the reporting process. In this way, you can gain a sense of accomplishment from the process and become more confident.