How Smart People Prepare for a Presentation

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Total Coaching System LOGO and meaning behind it: 3 Interconnected Circles brings together the Mind, Body and Heart

Engaging the Mind and the Heart will support the Body’s efforts to do this task for us.

SCRIPT/CONTENT:

• Public speaking medium = public audience + a speaker. ALL ABOUT AUDIENCE.

• Put content in their world. Already know, need to know, feel and do about it.

• Prepare your content to be HEARD, not READ. Use active language. PAGE 4.

• Take your audience on a journey. Orient them WHY you’re speaking. Use clear structure denoting the 5 W’s.

• Keep it simple. Less is more. Less words.

PREPARATION/PROCESS:

• Suddenly asking the body to do something it almost never does. No wonder it reacts!

• Rehearsal prep builds the neural pathways in our mind that instruct body. Brain Chemistry decreases nerves.

• Try to engage your body BEFORE you present. Get your heart rate up. Stand up. Out loud.

• Get into the space.

• Condition like an athlete would. HYDRATE. REST. EAT WELL.

X FACTOR/CHARISMA:

• This is where the heart part comes in. The sprit. FELT among audience.

• Natural magnetism, dynamism.

• Important to cultivate because an audience will associate that good feeling with YOU.

• We have to balance intellect with affability. Part informer, part entertainer.

• Give them something to look at, something to listen to and something to remember.

DELIVERY:

• In order for them to learn or be inspired by you, they must understand you.

• Use punctuation as a guide.

• Emphasize, key terms. Define acronyms.

• Period.. end on a down note. NO UP-SPEAK. Comma- breath, Ellipses… lilt. Question? Ask it.

TECHNOLOGY/PROPS/STAGING:

• Are slides clear, concise, necessary?

• Do you have audio visual elements worked out.

• What is your space like?

• Podium?

• Can you use an unconventional prop to illustrate your ideas? MEMORABLE

VOLUME/VOCAL QUALITY:

• They can’t learn from you, feel you and be inspired by you if they can’t HEAR you.

• Breath support

• Low talker? Fast talker? High pitched talker?

• ALWAYS USE A MIC!

POSTURE/PHYSCIAL APPEARANCE:

• You are the medium for your message and it’s a visual medium.

• Wear something that AIDS your speech.

• Dress to impress. Too inform says something before you’ve opened your mouth.

• Claim our space. Feet firmly on the floor. Shoulders back.

• You’ve earned this time. Take it.

• Pin hair back.

• RELATIONAL PRESENCE:
  Also where the HEART comes in.

• Established through eye contact. Friendly eyes and allies out in audience whom you’ve established prior.

• FELT by audience.

• Puts you in church and in control. Nerves melt away.