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The 15 Most Common Presentation Mistakes

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If you're not entirely comfortable speaking in public, then giving a PowerPoint in front of your colleagues or clients can be a great source of anxiety.

And if you're not confident as you create your slideshow, the final product can make you seem like a real amateur.

To help you engage your audience instead of putting it to sleep, the experts at SOAP Presentations in São Paulo, Brazil, compiled the most common mistakes that you can easily fix.

We're running it here with SOAP's permission.

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Richard wrote for Business Insider's Strategy vertical, where he oversaw the Better Capitalism series. He was also the host of Business Insider's podcast "This Is Success." At Business Insider, he investigated Dan Gilbert's multibillion-dollar project in Detroit, analyzed the highly unusual management cultures at Bridgewater and Zappos, and examined Wall Street's love of Transcendental Meditation. In 2016 he helped launch Business Insider Italia in Milan. He joined Business Insider in 2013, and is an alumnus of Boston College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He left the company in 2020 to become editorial director at Just Capital.