Powerful Pithy Presentations Tip #1: Manage Your Fear
Welcome to Powerful Pithy Presentation Pointers!
There’s usually little time to seek out a great coach or take a class to help you prepare for that all-important “make or break” presentation you found out about last week!
But the ability to craft and deliver powerful, pithy, presentations is the most important tool used in the business community for getting things done! Your presentation will make the difference between your success or failure!
The goal of Powerful, Pithy Presentation Pointers is to deliver one memorable, easy to implement presentation tool at a time! Then you can practice it 100 times and make it your own!
Powerful Pithy Presentation Pointer #1: Manage Your Fear
First, you must control your fear and anxiety of giving a presentation! Second, what are you going to say?
Did you know that 70% of people surveyed, after hearing a presentation, had no idea what the speaker was trying to communicate?
We are in the age of sound bytes! We focus on headlines, summaries and “give me the bottom line!” We have only seconds to grab the attention of our audiences, even if they are present because their jobs require it! What are you going to do to get their attention? Well, think like HLN (Head Line News) on cable television.
Ask yourself, “What (specifically) do I want the participants to do after hearing my presentation?” What key information must they know in this situation? This becomes the focus for your presentation or the goal of your presentation! Write those ideas down!
You now have a clear, specific focus. You are now ready to develop your presentation.
Dee Taylor-Jolley, MEd
Trainer/Speaking
Presentation Skills Expert
“If all my talents and powers were taken from me by some inscrutable providence, and I had my choice of keeping but one, I would unhesitatingly ask to be allowed to keep the power of speaking, for through it, I would quickly recover all the rest.” -Daniel Webster
