12 Ways To Make Your Presentation More Impactful For The Audience and More Fun For You

1. Get into the room early and work out how you can get physically closer to the audience.
2. Remove as many distractions as possible: posters in the audience eye-line, for example.
3. Remove all obvious sense of time e.g. a clock above your head.
4. 1/3 into your presentation use a story to reinforce the points you are making.
5. 2/3 into your presentation change media e.g. from PowerPoint to whiteboard.
6. Do the Q & A before the summary.
7. Start on time. Yes, even though many people are late. Reward the behaviours you seek.
8. Finish on time. If you continue to talk, you many have them physically, but certainly not mentally.
9. Read Presenting101.
10. Stay in control: do not let someone asking questions remove your leadership position.
11. As soon as you finish and the room clears, write your own personal review: what went well? And less well? 
12. Plan your presentation to meet your outcome, not to fill the time available with PowerPoint slides.