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Tuesday, September 30, 2008
So what components make for a better rehearsal for your next presentation? The Great Big Technical Rehearsal Checklist. Many folks focus relentlessly on rehearsing what I'll call the technical aspects of the presentation: the room, the PowerPoint. Don't get me wrong: all of these technical details are crazy important to rehearse. Practice makes perfect, right? Not really.
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Thursday, July 16, 2009
0160; Lose the Power Point – when you put up Power Point slides you ask the audience to look at 2 – or 3 – things at once: you, your slides, perhaps a printout of your slides. 0160; Talk from the audience’s point of view – a common mistake presenters make is to explain an idea the way they learned it. 0160; But your history is not inherently interesting to an audience. 1. That’s distracting.
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Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Your audience is there for what you are going to say. That’s because though you may not be comfortable in front of an audience, you can prepare good content.
Its an awful feeling to be standing in front of an audience with a little voice in your head going “I’m waffling. Your audience’s perception of your nerves Giving your first presentation or speech is daunting. I’ve worked with many new presenters and here’s the advice that has made the most difference to them.
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Friday, May 15, 2009
How many in the audience? Will the audience be eating or have eaten? Are there barriers between speaker and audience? How long is the audience’s day? What kind of chair is the audience in? Following is a list of questions that speakers should ask meeting planners in getting ready to speak at an event. 0160; You won't need to ask all of them all the time; the list is meant to give you a broad set of ideas.
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Tuesday, December 1, 2009
People in your audience will feel that you have genuinely connected with them and that you care about their reaction.
lot of people we work with confess that they don’t really see individual people in their audience. We call this ‘listening to your audience.”
Even a newbie at public speaking knows they should make eye contact.
But the term eye contact is rather vague.
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Monday, August 31, 2009
First of 3 blogs on connecting with your audience.
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speakers speakers wish to connect with their audiences. how do you connect with an audience through body language? demonstrated this phenomenon many times to audiences I’ve lectured to about
communication, 0160; What is the most powerful way to do that? 0160; Every communication is two
conversations
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Saturday, August 1, 2009
didn’t rehearse with the PowerPoint slides because I saw them as such a minimal part of the presentation. If I had been more nervous, I would have rehearsed with the PowerPoint slides and realized that I needed to insert black slides.
Preparation and rehearsal take time and effort. It’s normal to get nervous about public speaking.
When you stand up in front of people and open your mouth, you’re making yourself vulnerable.
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Thursday, August 20, 2009
Tags: Audience-Centered Speaking Authenticity Non-verbal Communication Public Speaking Rehearsa What is charisma?
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How can you increase your own?
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Saturday, March 28, 2009
Yesterday I had a skype conversation with Twitter follower Todd (@TJList) on how to include audience participation in a presentation. He’s presenting on getting through the economic downturn to an audience of small business owners. How can I involve my audience in the presentation? Here was his question:
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Monday, December 21, 2009
audience. you must rehearse with the teleprompter operator. 0160; Let’s just say that rehearsal is
key. human connection with an audience in person. Tags: Audience-Centered Speaking Authenticity Non-verbal Communication Public Speaking Rehearsal Speech Writing Visual Aids Web/Tec Should you use a teleprompter? 0160; If so, what are the traps for the unwary?
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