TJ Walker breaks down what makes great speakers: they illustrate every key point with a story, keep talks to five or fewer main points, and rehearse on video until it clicks. Ronald Reagan's trick was naming a real person every couple minutes.
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What do the best public speakers do when they are speaking and presenting? What do they do that's different from most people? That's an easy question. The thing that great speakers do is they illustrate every single key point with a story, and they limit the number of points they try to convey in any one speech or presentation, often to five points or fewer. President Ronald Reagan once told his speechwriters, I never want to talk for more than two minutes without talking about a real person with a real problem. So stories for every key point. Limit your key points to a handful. And if you really want to be great, practice rehearse your presentation on video until you like what you see.