It’s almost 2016! How are your presentations going? If they are feeling flat, try these simple, unconventional tips to give your speeches more oomph :

1. 1. Power-pose – Power-posing is proven to make you feel more confident, and to improve your audience’s impression of you as a speaker. Before you present, find a private space such as an empty conference room or office. Lengthen your spine, put your hands on your hips and breathe deep for two to three minutes. This can affect the cortisol and testosterone levels in your brain and make you feel more confident.
2. Do The Opposite of What You’re Doing – If you tend to stay still during a speech, experiment with gesture . Time you gestures with your key points. Let them accentuate your main points. Stay away from small, micro gestures. Move in a bold way. Conversely, if you move a lot during a speech, experiment with stillness . Let your words and ideas charge your audience. If you speak quickly, slow down, keep in mind silence is more eloquent than words. If you speak slowly, try picking up the pace. In other words, break up your non-verbal communication habits.
3. Don’t be Donald Trump – And by this, I mean prepare for you speeches (one hour for every minute you speak), don’t make up bogus facts , don’t rage at your opponent, smile, get a normal haircut, and respect your audience.
4. Throw Out The Rule Book – There is no one way to present, and no rule book for speaking well. Take one public speaking truism, and mess with it. You have to have an attention getter? Nah try jumping right into your discussion section. Keep the humor sanitized? Try out an edgy joke. See if it works. The only thing that must exist in your speech is your passionate connection to your material. Everything else can be experimented with.