It’s Monday. You’re sitting through another work presentation. The speaker is reading slide after slide of bullet points. Your mind wanders, and your phone calls to you. Eventually, you forget where you are.
Most presentations fail because they treat people like robots instead of humans. You can do better than this.
At Krisp Production, we’ve found that being playful and acting for presentations make you more interactive. Your corporate confidence grows, and your audience stays awake.
In this article, we'll show you how creativity at work helps you produce memorable moments during your presentations. You'll also get specific techniques to make it happen and improve your presence.
Ready to make your next session enjoyable? Read on to learn more.
Three things dominate a traditional corporate presentation: serious tone, formal slides, and fixed framework. There’s close to no interactivity, and no presenter-audience connection. Your crowds phase out mentally within minutes (death by PowerPoint is a real thing folks!).
That’s why you need to break free from this style. You can add playfulness to your delivery, which will make people feel interested instead of bored.
This new approach may seem overwhelming to you. But in our experience, your lively presentations increase your corporate confidence. At the same time, they create deeper connections with your audiences.
When you incorporate fun into your presentation, dopamine starts flowing in your audience's brain. And when there’s more dopamine flowing, that results in better memory retention (because their brain associates this information with a reward). But the biggest benefit is the emotional connection. All of those positive feelings help your audience connect emotionally with your content.
In other words, your audience remembers your message longer when you’re fun.
A recent study shows that your listeners remember 65% of visual information three days later as opposed to only 10% of purely verbal content. So, it is important to perform in front of them rather than delivering mundane talks.
Lively presentations produce real conversations between you and your audience. People stop being passive observers and start participating. This creates a perfect atmosphere for real learning and collaboration.
Our workshop participants consistently surprise themselves with their creativity after trying performance-based techniques. A simple five-minute warm-up activity often helps someone find a completely new way to explain something they've been struggling to communicate for months.
We’ll explain these techniques in the upcoming section.
You need specific and practical strategies such as acting techniques, interactive elements, and visual storytelling to engage your audience. They also help you maintain professional credibility.
But you don’t have to do everything together at first. Start small, and build your confidence gradually from there.
Let’s learn more about these approaches.
Performance techniques include some basic acting principles. You can master them to make your presentation an impressive experience for your audience.
These acting principles include:
The difference between a snooze-fest and an engaging presentation? It starts with how you design your slides. Avoid static slides because they are things of the past. Besides, if you involve your audience and incorporate humor, it’ll ensure their effective participation.
Here’s how you can use these elements in your presentation:
Now that you know specific techniques to add fun to your presentations, let's talk about what this does for your confidence.
Many speakers worry they'll look unprofessional if they add humor or interaction. Don’t worry about that. These elements increase your corporate confidence by changing your mindset and energy.
For this to work, you should prioritize establishing connection instead of focusing on perfection. The feeling of fun helps you achieve it by activating a different part of your brain.
Give yourself the permission to be playful. You’ll notice a change soon. Those sweaty palms and racing thoughts will start to calm down because you're no longer trying to be perfect. You're just trying to connect.
It’ll then feel like you’are having a conversation with interesting people instead of delivering a formal speech. Your voice will sound more like you, your gesture will feel natural, and the whole thing will become enjoyable.
Think about the last presenter who made you laugh. You probably remember them, right? That's because humor breaks down the invisible wall between you and your audience.
Your authentic personality is your biggest asset. Use it well. Audiences respect speakers who dare to be human, and that respect opens the door to real conversation and engagement.
Most presentation coaches will tell you to make your points clear and convince people to agree with you. But they skip the part that matters most: helping people have a good time while they learn from you. This is where you can be unique from every other speaker your audience has ever heard.
Try these approaches to make your presentation memorable:
Your audience remembers how you made them feel rather than just what you said. This emotional connection through joy gives you an advantage. Most speakers miss this opportunity completely.
Most corporate presentations put people to sleep within minutes. You know the struggle: you have important information to share, but half your audience is scrolling through their phones. You can change this completely.
We've shown you how acting techniques, visual storytelling, and a playful mindset can make your presentations stick in people's minds. They're practical methods that help you connect with real people in real meetings.
If you’re looking to work on your presentation skills, contact us today. Our acting-based approach will help you command the room and deliver presentations that people talk about long after you've finished.
