In HR management positions, giving presentations in your human resources area of expertise is one of the fastest ways to attract favorable attention from those who can help advance your HR management career.

Speaking gives you tremendous visibility and credibility by giving you an avenue to put your confidence, your mastery of a topic and your communications skills on display.

The more you speak, the more your reputation and credibility increases. If you present well, gradually you can become sought out for your opinions, perspectives and point of view.

However, delivering a good presentation can be a challenge. You can’t wing it. A good presentation requires planning, preparation and execution. Here are seven sure-fire steps you can take to ace your next presentation.

1. Determine the purpose and strategy of your HR management presentation, e.g., to inform, sell, or reinforce a current action or strategy. There’s a difference between selling a new sales incentive plan to your Sales VPs versus just providing a brief update on the current one.

2. Prepare for the presentation well in advance. Write an outline with a clear objective and supportive arguments. Don’t try to cover more material than you have time for. Remember the “rule of 3″ — most members of your audience won’t takeaway more than three key points from your presentation, no matter how good it is.

3. Perform an audience analysis. How would you characterize the audience in terms of their knowledge of the topic, organization positions, special interests, sex and age distribution, etc? Orient your presentation to the audience’s needs and concerns. Drop “nice to know” or other information not salient to your presentation.

4. Consider whether the use of audio visuals (e.g., flipcharts, Power Point slides, handouts) will provide clarity to your HR management presentation. If you use slides, make sure they’re uncluttered and can be read no matter where someone sits in the room.

5. Anticipate reactions and /or questions about your HR management presentation, and prepare responses accordingly. It helps to write these out in advance and practice your answers.

6. Rehearse your presentation. Conduct a few rehearsals in private, using a tape recorder to assess your style and content. If possible, conduct a few dress rehearsals for a colleague using your visual aids. Obtain feedback as to the structure, clarity, and effectiveness of your delivery.

7. When rehearsing, don’t read or memorize material – speak conversationally as if you’ve speaking individually to each person in the audience.

By following these seven steps you’ve set the stage for acing your next HR management presentation.

Growing a business in the MLM industry can not only be tough, but almost impossible without a system. I am talking about a simple step by step system your team can use to sponsor new reps. Every great MLM team uses a system. A system to generate leads, prospect people and sponsor new reps. Without a system to follow, your personal reps will drop out your company in a flash.

Every great Network Marketer uses three things, systems, tools and presentations. Those three things are usually responsible for growing multimillion dollar MLM organizations. You need tools like websites, autoresponders and even things like business cards to keep a business running.

You need presentations to be able to sponsor a group of people into your MLM company at one time. Without presentations, there is no way of recruiting large numbers of people into your MLM organization at once. As you should know, without recruiting large numbers of people at once, you’re not going to grow a very big team.

Essentially, a system is something you and your team can use to grow your business. Most people can’t think for themselves which means in order to use your team to the max, you must tell them what to do. People are like sheep, it’s a sad fact, but it’s the truth. Another fact is that over fifty percent of your team will never pick up the phone and try and recruit someone.

Instead they just wait around, order some company products and wait a few for months before they leave. After realizing that it actually requires work to make money in MLM, people quit. So, in order to make the most of your team members, you must tell them what to do.

You must give them a system they and their team members can use. A system to generate traffic, leads and sponsor new reps. This can be done by sending your team 15 CDs each week to give out to their friends. This way, they will always have a job to complete. You could even have your team pitch ten people a day on Facebook asking people to visit your MLM company presentation. As long as you have a system in place for new members to recruit, some tools and presentations, you will succeed.

One of the significant differences between our most effective leaders, and the rest – of – the – pack, is, often, based on, not merely whether they have quality objectives, but, whether they have the aptitude, positive, can – do, attitude, and skill – set, to achieve them, in the best possible manner. In order to do so, they must not, merely claim, to be, negotiators, but, rather, must, also, get those necessities, achieved, and DONE! With that in mind, this article will attempt to briefly examine, consider, and discuss, using the mnemonic approach, some of what this means, requires, and represents.

1. Delve deeply; deliver; decide: How show one’s negotiating skills, and focus, decide, how to proceed, what to seek, and how to pursue the necessary priorities, and objectives? To do so, it is essential to go, beyond, the surface, and delve deeply into many aspects of the past/ heritage/ history/ mission, present obstacles, constituents’ perceptions, and the best way, to proceed, into the future, in a relevant, sustainable manner! Too many pseudo – leaders, talk – the – talk, but fail to, walk – the – walk, and, unless/ until, an individual leader develops the negotiating skills and abilities, to effectively, consistently, deliver on his promises, he won’t make the necessary, positive difference, for the future!

2. Open – mind; options; objectives; opportunities: If you want to negotiate effectively, you must proceed, with an open – mind, and get to understand, your options and alternatives, and, thus, to achieve your objectives! Often, the most effective negotiations, are based, on whether one, is prepared to recognize opportunities, and take advantage of them, in a win – win, manner!

3. Needs: Before entering into any negotiations, it’s important, and essential, to clearly understand, the true needs, of the specific group, you represent and serve! This permits someone, to effectively prioritize, and differentiate between, mere, wishes, and actual priorities, and musts!

4. Empathy; emphasis; excellence; enrich: Be careful to be prepared, before beginning this process! Listen effectively, and learn from every conversation, and experience, in order to proceed, with the utmost degree of genuine empathy, both for your group’s best interests, but also, better understanding, what your negotiating adversary seeks! This will direct you, to place your emphasis, where it’s best – directed, and provide the quality, and excellence, which will enhance your organization. Shouldn’t the goal and priority of any negotiations, be, to enrich your group and stakeholders?

Don’t merely negotiate, but focus on getting your objectives achieved, and DONE! Are you the best person, for this responsibility?