Eye Contact is incredibly important!
Engage with your audience leaving plenty of time for questions, corrections, and conversations
Move when necessary
Introduction is KEY
Keep good posture, as it shows profession and seriousness.
Use gestures and facial expressions!
Movement and Body Language can be a very important part in your presentation, especially if it is persuasive! Some techniques professionals use are gestures and facial expressions.
Some examples of gestures could be "The Chop" to make a point, or "The Heart" by putting your hand over your heart to express feeling.
Some examples of facial expressions could be "crunching" to make something look bad, weird, or disgusting. Another could be the "Happy Tears" where you look happy or excited to explain feeling.
Movement is also important as it can engage your audience (see more) to understand more, you have to make sure you meter it and only move when you are trying to, otherwise you may move your audience.
Engaging with your audience is a must in modern presentations, as you WILL persuade and inform more. Ways to engage vary but some popular ways are listed here:
Stimulate interaction by asking questions and using polls,
Tell stories to create connections,
Use dynamic visuals and humor related to the topic
Maintain strong non-verbal communication through eye contact and body language.
Introduction is key because they need to get hooked to pay attention. Many book authors use methods such as asking questions and getting you curious. Presenters use this technique also! Here are is a way to get your audience hooked! Start with a small personal introduction and mention how you are related to the topic. Then, move on to the subject of your presentation and give a roadmap of the main points through an outline. Last, talk about the audience's importance to the topic and the advantages they will receive from the presentation.