H is for Huge
Think big when it comes to your next presentation!  You don’t need to turn yourself into the Incredible Hulk to catch people’s attention (although that wouldn’t hurt), but you should aim to be bigger than life.  Dare to let your alter-ego take over for your next presentation.  Just try not to terrify your audience.

U is for Unusually Sensitive
Unfortunately for Dr. Banner, his gamma ray experiment made him a little too sensitive to anger.  Although nothing will make your audience members morph into green humanoid monsters, think about how your presentation appeals to the senses.  Most presentations target only two: sight and sound.  Boring.  Since people take in the world through five senses, they are more likely to remember a presentation that speaks to all of them.  Audio and visual stimulation are easy enough to accomplish, so think about how to make your audience members exercise their senses of smell, touch and taste.  You don’t necessarily need to put out a box of donuts and ask your audience to relate them to your presentation subject.  Stimulating these senses can be as easy as just referencing words that bring them to mind. Comparing your new line of sweaters to a bag of Skittles gets the point across in a tangy way that it’s colorful.

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You either got it or you don’t. You can shake it or you can’t. You’ve got the moves or you better move off the dance floor.

When it comes to dancing many of us – especially us guys – can get colder feet than when we are about to begin a do-or-die presentation. Dancing brings out a lot of insecurities. It involves a kind of freedom of expression that many people find unnerving. Unless you regularly hit the Salsa club, dancing is also an activity that most of us don’t engage in regularly and that makes it doubly difficult.

These are the reasons why Dancing with the Stars has become such a big hit!

American television audiences love watching familiar faces come to grips with unfamiliar circumstances. We’re used to watching our favorite actors and athletes in situations where they are completely in control of themselves, demonstrating why they are at the top of their professions. Just the opposite is true when they hit the dance floor.

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Here are some presentation lessons from President Obama.