Shyness and stage fright are part of our flight or fight response, but how can we overcome them? The first step is to know that it’s normal.
Presenting
How and When to Use Slides in Your Presentation – EP080
Treat Important Ideas Differently This week we look at how and when to your slides in a presentation about your idea. There are few more polarizing topics, however, so let’s talk about how slides work.
How to start a presentation your audience wants to keep listening to
Let’s say you sit down to read a new mystery novel. You crack open the cover, flip to the first page, and just as you’re about to read the first line, your (soon-to-be-former) friend comes over and says, “The butler did it.”
The Key to Effective Technical Communication – EP074
Seeing Things From a Different Perspective Effective technical communication is tricky because we suffer from the “Curse of Knowledge.” We don’t remember what it’s like to be unfamiliar with all the jargon in our industry.
How to Change Your Audience in a Short Presentation – EP073
Setting Clear Goals To get an audience to make a change in a short presentation you need to know where they already are. Instead of focusing so much on the time slot, we need to focus on the amount of change that is possible in our audience, given the time slot.
Turn Your Idea Into a Keynote Presentation – EP072
Putting the Show in Showmanship Making a great keynote presentation is about showmanship, but not quite in the way you might think.
Want Engagement? Create Mystery – EP064
The Questions You Want Your Audience to Ask Our idea of what people need to make a change is really different from what information they actually need, and the key difference is the distinction between curiosity and knowledge.
What’s Your Speaker “Point of View” – Holmes, Watson, or Conan Doyle? – EP061
The Key to a Great Mystery Story Have you ever watched a detective movie and felt like you were just about to put it together right when the detective solves it? How do we get our audience to have that feeling when they’re listening to our message?
Solving the One-to-Many Message Problem – EP060
Build a Message That Appeals to Every Member of Your Audience We need to reach many different people, but we have only one message.
Focus on the GOAL: Putting the “Feel” in “Think, Feel, Do” – EP058
The Goal Revisited A common piece of advice is to focus on the “Think, Feel, Do,” as in, “What do you want people to think, feel, and do as a result of your message?” We ask those questions together because thoughts, feelings, and actions are incredibly intertwined.