Portland, OR -- (SBWIRE) -- 05/08/2013 -- Presentations are something many of us are familiar with as we were required to give them in grade school and college. While we may have thought they'd end there, that's clearly not the case. Today, many businesses and organizations use presentations, whether for staff members or clients, as a business communication medium. But, in order to give a clear and concise presentation, you need to be prepared. Below are tips to help you get the most out of your presentation.

Organize

Organization is paramount when preparing for an oral presentation . As you begin the preparation process you will want to find out a few details.

First, understand why you are being asked to give the presentation. Understanding the purpose will help you focus on exact details. For example, are you being asked to conduct a training session on a new piece of equipment that your company has recently acquired?

Second, be sure to thoroughly research the topic of your presentation. Staying with the training session idea, research the equipment in question. You may want to ask for hands on access to the equipment. Once you are comfortable, the training will go much smoother.

When giving the presentation, be sure to engage your audience. From the moment the presentation begins, try to make a personal connection with them with consistent eye contact and modulate your tone effectively when speaking.

Visual aids will help your audience stay focused. They may even help some to better understand the information being presented. Create a PowerPoint presentation explaining the workings of the equipment in question. Use diagrams and other pictures as needed.

Practice

As you organize your presentation, give yourself plenty of time to practice. If possible, contact friends and family, or others you trust to be in the room with you during practice sessions. This is the opportune time to focus on your timing and delivery.

Having others in the room will help you practice on making eye contact, modulate your tone, and help you work on your speed when talking. Also, by practicing in front of others, they can give you feedback. They can give you pointers on what you need to improve and tell you what you're doing right.

You should practice your presentation multiple times to get comfortable in front of people, and the repeated rehearsal will help you memorize your lines.

Presentations can be nerve wracking for even the most seasoned professional. If you feel that you are in need of additional training look into a media coach who can help you with presentation skills training.

Author Jillian Johnson is a professional content marketing writer and blogger with a particular interest in writing about business. To read more writing by Jillian, follow her @MissWritey.

About Guukle.com
Guukle.com provides free advice and guidance for people wanting to change careers, looking for jobs, starting a new business or starting over. Whatever is your starting point at Guukle.com we centre around you and your dreams and objectives. Nothing is impossible if you are focused to succeed and know how.

Company: Guukle.com
Owner: Lucas Bowen
Email: lucas@guukle.com
Website: http://www.guukle.com/oral-presentation/

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Portland, OR -- (SBWIRE) -- 01/14/2013 -- "It's been an amazing ride, but we haven't even started yet"

"We strive for authority. Our ultimate goal is to be regarded a premier site on the net in the scope of valuable content, information and advice provision to anyone who seeks a career change, contemplates an education, looks to change or get a job, or someone who wants to pursue a long dream of starting your their own business", says Lucas, owner of Guukle.com

Just a few months old, Guukle is on the path to success. So far more than 25,000 people have stopped by to peruse the content of information and advice. "This is great and we are thrilled with the initial success", says Lucas. Initial successes is content focusing on optimizing a job resume , getting a job with the federal government , or looking for life changing Ted talks . But Lucas also elaborates that to make real change, major scaling is necessary. "And this can only be done through collaboration".

Guukle works with a network of topic specific experts to assure that any piece of content published is unique, professional, well written and fulfils the overarching goal to provide distinct value to any visitor. "To make real change we must go beyond what we currently do, so we have decided to call out for help, for support and for collaboration", says Lucas

Effective immediately, Guukle invites professionals, experts, companies, industry guru's etc. simply anyone who'd be interested to share their knowledge, expertise and experience to collaborate with them. Guukle wishes to extent it's reach, to make real difference and to make absolutely sure that the experience of stopping by Guukle is a great one, and one that is remembered and shared.

"Essentially we look for synergies - 1+1=3. If we can help our visitors and those who spend time with us, our ultimate goal is reached. We are open to any kind of suggestion and very flexible. Anyone who has a desire, like we, to make a real difference, to contribute to helping others is a potential partner of ours and one that we'd like to hear from", concludes Lucas

For details please contact Lucas Bowen.

About Guukle.com
Guukle.com provides free advice and guidance for people wanting to change careers, looking for jobs, starting a new business or starting over. Whatever is your starting point at Guukle.com we centre around you and your dreams and objectives. Nothing is impossible if you are focused to succeed and know how.

Company: Guukle.com
Owner: Lucas Bowen
Email: lucas@guukle.com
Website: http://www.guukle.com/

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

It's a few months back that Guukle.com began inviting guest bloggers. This proved indeed a right decision. The editorial team receives many articles suggestions on a daily basis but unfortunately not all can be published.

Portland, OR -- (SBWIRE) -- 01/10/2013 -- "If we lose our value advantage we've lost our business"

"We made a bold move when we invited guest bloggers. It was a great one but we have to exercise extreme care going forward to make sure we keep adding unique and distinct value so that our readers keep coming back for more", says Lucas, owner of Guukle.com.

It's a few months back that Guukle.com began inviting guest bloggers. This proved indeed a right decision. The editorial team receives many articles suggestions on a daily basis but unfortunately not all can be published. Some pieces simply doesn't meet editorial standards in terms of content value, syntax and grammar, others are not unique but pre-published but too many are just rehashed, even spun pre-published articles that have been put together in haste, without the reader in mind, and simply for the purpose of back-linking.

"Our mindset is like Google. We publish content for human beings and not for search engines. We won't publish everything that's passed to us! Period! Our first priority is the reader, our second priority is the reader and our third priority is the reader! When we get this right, we have real winners. Take our current best article . Thousands have read that! Same goes with the article on the resumes objectives you set or the best ways you should apply to find jobs where you can work from home . These are the types of articles we want to see and publish as these bring real value to our readers.

Guukle encourages authors and writers to keep submitting material for review but all submissions must be made with reader value in mind.

About Guukle.com
Guukle.com provides free advice and guidance for people wanting to change careers, looking for jobs, starting a new business or starting over. Whatever is your starting point at Guukle.com we centre around you and your dreams and objectives. Nothing is impossible if you are focused to succeed and know how.

Company: Guukle.com
Owner: Lucas Bowen
Email: lucas@guukle.com
Website: http://guukle.com/

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Portland, OR -- (SBWIRE) -- 11/29/2012 -- How do you expand on a web-service that's growing beyond leaps and bounds and already very successful? You ask for help!

From its launch date in April 2012, Guukle.com has been focusing on providing free advice and guidance in the job search, career management and education niches. This has worked extraordinarily well and response so far has been very positive and really assuring. "Up to recently though, our limitation, however, was our own strengths, knowledge and capabilities", says Lucas, owner of Guukle.com. "And while that of course should not deter us or be devalued in any shape or form, we realized that we had a golden opportunity to add more value and thereby grow further and faster. That opportunity was found in knowledge extension".

"We simply decided to open the flood gates for professionals in the niche with a desire to be heard. We started inviting guest writers and bloggers and encouraged them to share from their wealth of expertise and experience". The feedback has been fantastic. Starting in October 2012 Guukle.com invites experts in their fields to share their known-how and knowledge on the portal. "It's really excellent and truly a winning model. We focus on unique and extraordinary value creation and get genuine experts to share from their fountains of expertise. We provide the publishing means to reach an audience who is focused and information seeking and they have access to an abundant stream of new and laser targeted value and information when they visit Guukle.com. All contributed by experts", Lucas continues. "It's a triple win".

The star material at Guukle.com remains the "100 star interview questions to ask" but expert contributions like The Pro's & Con's of Distance Learning , Why Internships Are So Critical During College , and 6 Top Tips to Improve Your Chances of Finding a Job are all really fast risers.

About Guukle.com
Guukle.com provides free advice and guidance for people wanting to change careers, looking for jobs, starting a new business or starting over. Whatever is your starting point at Guukle.com we centre around you and your dreams and objectives. Nothing is impossible if you are focused to succeed and know how.

Company: Guukle.com
Owner: Lucas Bowen
Email: lucas@gukkle.com
Website: http://www.guukle.com/

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm

Portland, OR -- (SBWIRE) -- 08/13/2012 -- At some point, many of us will desire to change careers, find a new job or start a business of our own. It is a nerve-wracking decision to step out into the great unknown. Fortunately, Lucas Bowen and his website, http://www.guukle.com/ , have taken a few steps to help. The best part, it's free.

According to Lucas, "Whatever is your starting point at Guukle.com we centre around you and your dreams and objectives. Nothing is impossible if you are focused to succeed and know how." Lucas posts blogs about practical things. Lucas talks about things that you normally do not think about in the job world such as the importance of a well-written cover letter.

Using simple, plain language and examples, Lucas teaches you how to sell yourself to a particular company. Lucas and his cohorts learned how to do this the hard way. They were all fired from their places of employment.

When they lost work, http://www.guukle.com/ was born, and guukle.com is free out of necessity. After all, if you are without work, you have no money. Follow the practical, tried and true steps to success. You are not promised work or a career, but you are promised a chance to shine. When you do shine, you take the credit, not the crew who assembled the website.

If you are interested in more information or feel the need to step out on your own, visit: http://www.guukle.com/ and learn what you can do for your next job or career.

About Guukle.com
Guukle.com provides free advice and guidance for people wanting to change careers, looking for jobs, starting a new business or starting over. Whatever is your starting point at Guukle.com we centre around you and your dreams and objectives. Nothing is impossible if you are focused to succeed and know how.

Company: Guukle.com
Owner: Lucas Bowen
Email: lucas@gukkle.com
Website: http://www.guukle.com/

For more information on this press release visit: http://www.releasewire.com/press-releases/release-3.htm