Hiring translators/interpreters if necessary, using graphics…

Hiring translators/interpreters if necessary, using graphics effectively to reinforce your points, and being aware that gestures can have culturally based meanings are all suggestions to keep in mind if your audience includes people of different cultures and native languages.

Tips for coping with nervousness include the realization tha…

Tips for coping with nervousness include the realization that the audience is there to hear you not judge you, and the realization that you are prepared, and the realization that the audience is made up of individual people who happen to be sitting in the same room.

Like an introduction to a written document, an introduction…

Like an introduction to a written document, an introduction to an oral presentation helps your audience understand what you are going to say, why you are going to say it, and how you are going to say it. The conclusion reinforces what you said and looks to the future.