5 Presentation Tips to Stand Out in 2025

5 Presentation Tips to Stand Out in 2025

New year’s resolutions can be a mixed bag. Set them or don’t set them? Nail them or peter out come March?

Regardless of your take on this annual tradition, a universal truth at the beginning of a new business year is this: our calendars will be packed with meetings to attend, conferences to network at, and presentations to listen to. Think information overload.

But what about when it is your turn to be at the front of the room at these events and present your ideas?  How do you make sure you don’t get lost in the noise? 

If you are asking yourself these questions, consider these 5 presentation tips to help you cut through and stand out. We won’t call following them a resolution, but you can if you’d like😊

  • Have a single core message and communicate it up front so your audience knows where you’re headed. Sir Ken Robinson exemplified this during his TED Talk, “Creativity is as important in education as literacy.”
  • Create an engaging opening. Use a statistic, story, or ask a compelling question to get your audience excited about your topic. Jane McGonigal hooked her TED audience with this opening: “You will live 7.5 minutes longer than you would have otherwise, just because you watched this talk.”
  • Think through, and practice, transition statements. Use transitions between each slide, main point and each presenter so your presentation tells a story and is easy to follow.
  • Ask versus tell. Think about open-ended questions you can ask the audience throughout your presentation such as, “How will you use this in your next meeting?” or “How do you see your customers benefiting from this?”. Even rhetorical questions engage your audience.
  • Make your content vivid and concrete. “The miners were trapped 240 feet underground,” or “The miners were trapped underneath 24 floors of dirt.” Which will you remember?

While you may or may not abandon sugar, run a marathon, or pay off the mortgage in 2025, you can make it easy for audiences to engage with you.  Resolve to start with these simple tips. Your audience will notice – and thank you!

For more tips on how to stand out in 2025, review 2Connect’s offerings and schedule a call here to get started.

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