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Welcome toWelcome to Sweaty Palms Got You Down Sweaty Palms Got You Down……Overcoming presentation obstaclesOvercoming presentation obstacles

…Getting your message across

effectively


Key InsightsKey Insights

Quick tips for handling nervousness

Successful preparation ideas Getting your audience involvedUnderstanding your groupEasy tools and systems


Partner ActivityPartner Activity

What do you enjoy about presenting/facilitating?

What do you find easy?What do you find frustrating?


What are the 3 presentation/facilitation skills

you most want to develop/enhance??

1. 1. ________________________________________2. ____________________ 2. ____________________ 3.3. ____________________ ____________________


Benefits of Communicating Effectively

More effective in a leadership roleInspire others to take actionPeople will trust you moreMore relaxing and funEnhances your career

“Information and the ability to convey it is power.” - Peter Urs Bender


Communication

…Conveying of ideas to others in a clearly understood way


In order to be successful, what do we all have to sell?


“Ninety-nine percent of speakers could use more self-confidence when they start their presentations!”

- Peter Urs Bender


“What Scares You The Most?”

5% - Escalators 8% - Elevators11% - Dogs14% - Loneliness18% - Flying

Death Deep waterFinancial

problems Bugs

#1 fear: Over 41% - most afraid of speaking before a group…rather die than speak!


Fearing The Lectern?

Trembling, shaking, or showing other signs of anxiety (80%)

Fear of one’s mind going blank (74%Doing something embarrassing (64%)Being unable to continue talking (63%)Saying foolish things… making sense

(59%)

- University of Manitoba Psychology Today


Quick Tips for Increasing Quick Tips for Increasing Your ConfidenceYour Confidence

Audience of oneDeep breathingEye contact prior to

startingResearch/preparat’nWIIFTAsk …“So what?”

Clear openingEffective closing

Focus on key points

3 t’sInvolve audienceFinish on time


“Get Out of Your Shoes and Into the Other Person’s Shoes.”


How To Guarantee Effective Audience Participation

Turn to Buddy Create one question…3 ideas Take sharing from the audience


““Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”

- Theodore Roosevelt


““Learning to Learning to present present

effectively effectively takes 10% takes 10%

inspiration inspiration and 90% and 90%

perspiration!”perspiration!”


Sources For Inspiration

AnalogyFolk taleSongAnecdoteFolk TaleStory

Book MovieTall taleHeroPoemSuccess


“Making a presentation involves not only WHAT you

say but also HOW you say it.”


Potential

S…Step backTT……Think

PP……PlanO…Organize


AA Speech has to have at least one of 4 objectives: to inform to entertain to touch the emotions to move to action

…a good presentation covers all four objectives


Presentation Template

Intro:BodyConclusionAttachments

“When you find it …make a note of it.” - Charles Dickens


To look is one thing …To see what you look at is another …To

understand what you see is a third … To learn from what you understand is still something

else

… To act on what you learn is all that really matters. - Anonymous



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Welcome to Sweaty Palms Got You Down …Overcoming presentation obstacles