Who is your audience? Are they listeners or "verbal" outgoing in nature with lots of smiles and responsive. Or are they readers" that is studious types and more introverted?
How you approach each type is quite different. The listeners like things dramatized with expressive hand gestures and not too many details and a fairly quick pace with a lively speaker. Sales and marketing people (generally a younger group) will typically make up this type of audience
On the other hand when you are dealing with readers slow down a bit. Don't use as many colorful illustrations, minimize the gestures and inform with more detail or fact. Bankers. accountants, lawyers, and engineers fall into this group.
Most of the time you will already have a good idea of who your audience is (part of your homework will be to have done this type of research). If you are not sure for some reason start your presentation out slowly, on the conservative side, until you have a better idea of who is in your audience and then respond to your audience with the type of presentation they enjoy most -- one that is fast paced and colorful or one that is filled with lots of golden nuggets of information -- or somewhere in between.
And remember to customize your delivery to one that is pleasing to your audience as well. Remember that is either one that is very entertaining with gestures and dramatization or one that is heavy more serious and reserved. with fewer gestures.
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