Public speaking anxiety is very common and this causes many people to do anything they can to avoid being called upon to deliver presentations at work. If this sounds like you, then the good news is that there are a variety of ideas and strategies that can be learned that will help you to gain some control over such anxiety. [...]
Archive for the ‘Presentation skills’ category
Control Your Public Speaking Anxiety
March 8, 2012Presentation Tip: Closing your presentation
November 6, 2010How you finish your presentation is almost as important as how you open your presentation ….. we all know that first and last impressions are crucial in what other people remember when we communicate with them. So a simple framework that I find useful in structuring a close to my presentations, is “OFF” – which reminds [...]
Facing Your Fear
August 31, 2010Surveys show that many people have a fear of public speaking …… in fact, some research shows that as many as two out of three people rate the fear of public speaking as their number one fear – ahead of the fear of snakes, heights, divorce and even death! In this short video clip, Robin [...]
Take A Risk – Try Being More Outgoing
June 23, 2010Improving your presentation skills and public speaking ability requires you to take some risk – which is certainly what you would be doing if you participate in any type of Presentation Training course ……. You would be encouraged to engage in some skills practice and would likely receive some feedback and coaching along the way, to help you [...]
Inspiring Speakers
June 23, 2010No Limbs, And No Limits Nick Vujicic is a very inspiring young man. Born without arms or legs, and yet not allowing this to limit his ability to lead a life rich in both achievement and fulfillment. In this short clip, observe the public speaking skills which Nick so effectively employs ……. his artful use of humour, the way he [...]
Preparing Your Presentation
June 19, 2010In this short clip, the speaker shares some practical advice on how to prepare your presentation. He emphasises the need to first define the outcome you are seeking to achieve – are you aiming to inform (eg. a progress report) or to influence (eg. gain support) or are you aiming to inspire your audience to action. [...]
“Yes, We Can” – Barack Obama
January 25, 2010The Power of Imagery in Speech Let’s put politics aside , and have a look at the presentation technique of one of the world’s great public speakers. . Have a look at this …… a lovely illustration of the power of imagery, emotion and optimism in speech. President Obama is a master at the use of presentation [...]
Deliver your presentation like Steve Jobs
August 27, 2009This is a great You Tube video (approx 5 minutes) that highlights some of the key presentation techniques we would all benefit from having in our presentation repertoire – it uses some excellent clips from Steve Jobs presentations to help illustrate. Whilst most of our business presentations do not lend themselves to the same type of Apple-Mac extravaganza, there are [...]
One of those presentations I’d like to forget …..
August 14, 2009Oh, how I can still recall the very first formal presentation that I delivered in the workplace – I continue to cringe at the memory! More than twenty-seven years ago …..I was given the opportunity to deliver a presentation to a group of medical professionals. I was somewhat new to the position and my manager at the [...]
