CIO.com Senior Editor, Tom Wailgum, interviewed Talking Leadership Editor Carmine Gallo who discussed the five sure-fire ways to blow your next presentation.

CIO.com reaches IT professionals, managers and executives, many of whom are very interested in improving their presentation skills. Wailgum contacted Carmine Gallo and together they came up with this list of the five worst–and most common–tactics used by poor presenters. They are:

1. Talk too long

2. Kill your audience with bullets

3. Fail to rehearse

4. Read from your slides

5. Ignore body language and vocal delivery

Read the entire article here at CIO.com (a subsidiary of IDG).

Wailgum has written other columns intended to show the best and worst of presentations. Here’s a favorite–Wailgum scoured the net and found frightening examples of the worst PowerPoint slides. They are so bad, they’re actually funny. Unfortunately, they are all too real.