http://www.publicspeakersuniversity.com Andy Harrington is a world-leading teacher of public speaking and presentation skills. He is the creator of the intensive "Train the Trainer" course and 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 needs to stay attentive and focused, so it's important to be a dynamic and engaging presenter.

These are the skills that Andy Harrington teaches and develops with you in his Train the Trainer intensive course so that your business presentations are not the ones that put the audience to sleep.

To start with, Andy Harrington has identified four essential elements that, when combined, make for a great presentation.

The first essential element is excellent presentation skills. Finding the information or message you want to convey is only half the battle. The way you explain, say and deliver it is what makes the presentation. If the presentation is boring or distracting, it is very unlikely that the audience will ever give you their full attention and truly absorb the knowledge or message you are trying to convey to them.

The second element of a great presentation is content creation, which 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 easily linked to the third, because the third essential element is “engaging your audience”. You should avoid giving your presentation just by reading the slides and clicking your mouse – this experience will bring nothing more to your audience than when they read the information in a book. To engage your audience, you need to bring your content to life. Andy Harrington's intensive course, Train the Trainer, goes into detail on how to do this. In summary, you need to support each of your points with a story to really highlight the message and make the content interesting and relevant to the audience. The stories you choose could be personal to you, something you have experienced yourself. It could be a story about a famous person or even a story of someone you know.

The fourth and final essential element focuses on how you get your audience to respond to your message. Instead of seeing yourself as just a speaker or presenter, you need to see yourself as an influencer. The goal of your presentation should be to get people to change or change something in their lives. Whether in their personal or professional life, you want the audience to respond to the message you have conveyed to them. The most effective way to achieve this is to message to them in some way. Each person in the audience needs to feel that 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 compiled a collection of high-quality training videos on public speaking and presentation techniques that will help you improve your performance in front of large groups of people.

Being a good presenter can benefit you in many situations. Maybe you have to give presentations at work and the thought of it scares you, or you just want to learn how to come across best in those presentations. Maybe you want to be perceived as a better manager or a better leader of people. All of these scenarios can be improved through presentation skills and public speaking training.

The free video training put together by Andy Harrington covers areas such as eye contact, gestures, intonation and volume of your voice.

Eye contact is the common mistake speakers and presenters make, namely scanning the entire audience and the room with their eyes. Unfortunately, this rapid scanning only makes you appear shady and unprofessional and your audience is likely to feel alienated and disinterested. Constant eye contact is known to with your conversation partner strengthens the trust of others and makes you appear more credible.

The concept of maintaining eye contact with a large audience can seem difficult as there are so many eyes to make contact with. The best approach is to focus on looking one person in the eye at a time. With a little practice, you will learn to direct your eye contact toward another person at the natural end of a sentence.

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