http://www.publicspeakersuniversity.com Andy Harrington is a world-leading public speaker and teacher of presentation skills. He is the creator of the intensive course 'Train the Trainer' and also the author of 'Present, Pitch and Grow Rich'.

Unfortunately, business presentations can be quite boring for the audience. No matter how important the information is, the audience must remain engaged and focused, so it's important to be a dynamic and engaging presenter.

In his intensive Train the Trainer course, these are the skills that Andy Harrington will teach you and develop with you, so that your business presentations won't be the ones that put the audience to sleep.

To start, Andy Harrington has identified four essential elements that work together to create a great presentation.

The first essential element is great presentation skills. Coming up with the information or message you want to get out is only half the battle. The way you explain, say and convey it is what makes the presentation. If the presentation is boring or distracting, it is very unlikely that the audience will ever give you your full attention and really absorb the knowledge or message you are trying to give them.

The second element of creating a great presentation is Content Creation. This is the art of structuring your talk so that it is memorable for your audience, but at the same time easy for you to deliver.

The second element is somewhat related to the third, as the third essential element is Engage Your Audience. You want to avoid giving your presentation by just reading the slides and clicking your clicker. This experience gives your audience nothing more than reading the information in a book. What you need to do to engage your audience is to bring your content to life. Andy Harrington's intensive Train the Trainer course goes into detail on how to do this, but to summarize: you'll want to illustrate each of your points with a story to really drive home the message and make the content engaging and relevant to public. The stories you choose can be personal to you, so something you have experienced yourself. It could be a story about a famous person or even a story about someone you know.

The fourth and final essential element focuses on how to get your audience to take action on your message. Instead of seeing yourself as just a speaker or just a presenter, think of yourself as an influencer. The goal of your presentation should be to influence people to make a change or difference in their lives. Whether it is in their personal or working lives, you want the audience to take action on the message you have conveyed to them. The most effective way to do this is to relate your message to them in some way. Every person in the audience should feel like your content is relevant to them so that they feel motivated to put your message into action when they leave the presentation room.

Andy Harrington has spoken on stage with inspirational speakers such as Sir Richard Branson, Donald Trump, Anthony Robbins and Lord Alan Sugar and is one of the world's leading keynote presenters. He has shared his expertise in presentation skills and public speaking with thousands upon thousands of people at venues such as the O2 Arena in London.

Andy Harrington has put together a wealth of high-quality speaking and presentation skills training videos that will really help you improve your performance in front of large groups of people.

Being a good presenter can have a positive impact on you in a wide variety of situations. You may have to give presentations at work and the thought terrifies you, or you may simply want to learn how to make your best presentation possible. Maybe you want to be seen as a better manager of a better leader of people. All of these scenarios can be improved through presentation skills and public speaking training.

The free video training that Andy Harrington has put together covers topics such as eye contact, gestures, inflection and the volume of your voice.

Eye contact hides the common mistake speakers and presenters make of scanning the entire audience and room with their eyes. Unfortunately, this quick scanning will only make you appear clumsy and unprofessional, likely leaving your audience feeling alienated and disengaged. It is known that if you maintain regular eye contact with the person you are talking to, others are more likely to trust you and you also appear more credible.

The concept of maintaining eye contact with a large audience can seem difficult because there are so many eyes to connect with. The best approach is to focus on looking at one person – into their eyes, at a time. With practice, you'll know to switch your eye contact to another person at the natural end of a sentence.

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