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Are you frustrated with giving business presentations – and having your recommendations being ignored? Are you often cut off or interrupted by competitive peers or an impatient boss?

If you’ve had it with not getting the attention you deserve, you don’t have to take it anymore. Now, it’s easier than ever to get your ideas and suggestions noticed. Use your presence, body language and voice to command respect and get noticed.

Many professionals I coach are sick and tired of the run around they get when presenting to groups. Whether they present to funding committees, associations, or intact teams, the common complaint I hear is: “No one listens to me!”

Fortunately, you can gain confidence and skills in getting people to notice your ideas – and pay attention to what you have to say.

Take an instant inventory for yourself.

• Do your presentations seem to fall short of what you imagine?
• Do audience questions derail you — and you lose your train of thought?
• Do you talk and talk…but people still don’t seem to ‘get it’ even after you have explained your point again and again?

Most likely, there are some simple tactics that can solve this tendency to not get the respect you deserve.

In a brand new online course in Visual Storytelling, you can follow a step-by-step blueprint to get the attention you deserve. Telling persuasive stories is a lot more about following specific steps, than it is about your specific recommendations. 

Whether you decide this course is for you — or not, here are three tips to help you command attention:

Tip 1: Pause

Pause before you speak. Catch your breath. Hold yourself straight and tall. Professional speakers often use a pause to command attention. You can do the same thing. Use this tactic at the beginning of your talk.

But, while you’re at it – experiment with adding potent pauses during your presentation as well. Before you give a recommendation for action, add a pause. This signals to the group that you are in charge.

Tip 2: Stand Tall

Your body language communicates authority – especially when you stand and sit with confidence. In presentation coaching and training, body language is a crucial part – it is what your audience sees, feels and responds to.

By standing with leadership presence, you communicate that you are the authority in the room. Watch public speakers and notice how they do this naturally.

Tip 3: Project Your Voice

If you are mumbling your words, people assume you are not confident. They instantly assume you don’t have a well thought-out message.

The best way to project confident leadership is to project your voice. Speak as if you are communicating to the person in the last row. Share your ideas with enthusiasm and energy.

This can help you command respect with even a tough crowd.

Whether you are an experienced subject matter expert, or new on the job, you can learn how to communicate with authority and confidence.

When you speak, stand and communicate with authority, people will listen. Before you know it, you’ll get noticed and be able to command the respect you deserve. 

This may seem a slightly bizarre concept but taking all the thinking and stress out of an event like buying for a wedding, birthday or the big one, Christmas, can mean that you can focus on the event rather than worrying about what to buy. There is always that family member that’s so awkward to buy for that they have even returned gifts and every year you dread coming up with a gift idea for them. So here is the perfect gift because there’s nothing offensive about towels and they are so very useful.

Towels are an everyday item that need no introduction and are used by pretty much everyone from babies to old folks, we all use towels and usually every day in one form or another. Yet it just isn’t something we go out and buy for ourselves. There is the odd occasion you will buy a new beach towel for a holiday but generally you will not have bought any of the towels you now possess.

This seems really strange because you always have you favourite ones that are fluffier or feel softer and the older ones we no longer use for bathing will be used for cleaning or pet use. When you get new towels, being able to throw out those older flat or scratchy ones is great and the first time you use the new bath towels or put in the new hand towels is really nice.

This is why it is the perfect present because for people you buy a token gift for, there are hand towels or simply tea towels which are inexpensive and very useful and they will still get the pleasure from using the new towels. For family and close friends you can look at buying the really luxurious large bath towels and matching hand or hair towels and personalise them by getting the perfect colour to compliment bathrooms.

If it’s a couple, buying one colour for him and one for her, then they won’t use each others and you can always add personal bathroom products for them, such as face creams or shaving equipment, if its someone you buy lots for. There are many towel folding demonstrations available on-line to help you create the perfect gift. Alternatively add a bathroom set with a rug and toilet matt and new shower curtain to give them a completely new fresh feeling in their bathroom. They will be fighting over the bubble bath and candles before the turkey is served.

For a family, again buying one colour each and the size appropriate for each household member will be fun and functional. Bright colours for the children and large luxurious new towels for mom and dad will be sure to make them all happy. Baby towels are always useful too because new moms will be so busy and can sometimes get behind with the washing. So having extra baby, soft hooded towels will always come in handy.

There are always towels available from supermarkets to high streets, so there’s plenty of choice out there to suit all budgets. For the most soft and luxurious towels, the best fabric is bamboo or organic cotton, they have the softness of cashmere and are very absorbent and dry quickly after use when compared to the standard cotton towels.