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Barriers to Effective Presentations
1: Lack of Enthusiasm 

Presenter himself need interest on the topic, he is presenting. Then only actual effort come from him and have positive attitude. Otherwise he couldn’t get the attention of audience.

Example:

Do you really believe your product is better than the competitor’s? Do you look as confident as you say you are? The benefits of your product will not be believable if you don’t communicate your passion, enthusiasm and commitment through your facial expressions.

2: Failure to Rehearse

Making a confident, credible presentation takes more than fancy graphics; it takes practice, practice, practice!

While more than three-quarters of presenters agree that practicing in advance is a good idea, only 38 percent say they actually practice. Among those who do not practice, 83 percent agree that practice could help improve their results.

“One reason people don’t practice is that they are busy trying to organize content, formatting charts and graphics, or animating their slides,” says Wilder. “But practicing is essential to a successful outcome. Even most seasoned presenters practice each and every time.” says Wilder.

3: Elongated presentation

When asked what they would change about their presentations if given the chance, 88% said they would provide less information, shorten their presentation and/or make their slides more readable. Nearly half believe their presentations are at least 20% too long, and most of these people attribute the excessive length to an excessive number of slides. In fact, about half of those surveyed admit to running through 20-30 slides on average during a 30 minute talk. That’s one slide every 60-90 seconds.

“The story is the same everywhere,” says Bajaj. “Presenters mistakenly assume that if the number of slides is modest, the audience will not believe the presentation adds much value. Consequently, people tend to present too much information too quickly. Ironically, the result for the recipient is to absorb less information and lose the most salient points in the minutiae”.

'''4 : Lack of eye contact

While presenting something audience want the feel that. The topic is discussing with them. Then only their involvement will get. If the presenter read the entire subject while looking laptop or standing opposite to audience and watching projector is lead to loos the attention of audience

'''5: Lack of subject-relevant images and graphs

When asked, “What can your company do to help you improve your presentation quality?”, 33 percent of the people surveyed said, “give me more effective PowerPoint slides to use.” When it comes to designing slide images to make a point or background to fit the topic, not everyone has the skill or time to create sophisticated, subject-relevant graphics.

Only 15 percent of the professionals say their companies provide sophisticated graphics such as tables, arrows and images relevant to their presentation subject matter. The other 85 percent resort to designing their own charts and images. Among those professionals for whom company-designed PowerPoint templates or backgrounds are available, more than 40 percent think they are ineffective or not worth using.

6: Distracting Gestures and fillers '''

The majority of individuals I work with fidget with their fingers, rings, pen — the list goes on. If they don’t fidget, then they unconsciously talk with their hands. Their elbows get locked at their sides and every gesture looks the same. Or they’ve been told they talk with their hands so they hold their hands and do nothing

Fillers like eee, mmm, and, you know, got it is used too much the audience feel so boring and they may for fun counted the number of fillers that the presenter used that is the failure of presentation. And mind of audience convert from topic

7: Failure to Systematically Gauge Audience Feedback'''

When asked, “What would it take for you to be satisfied with your presentation performance?”, the survey respondents in our survey consistently answered “audience feedback”. Presenters want and need feedback from the audience that their message got through.

But the indicators used to assess audience reaction vary greatly from presenter to presenter. Some say they look for smiling faces during the talk or “attaboys” at the conclusion. Others measure success based on closing a sale or gaining acceptance for a new idea. To say the least, they are less than objectives measures.