Turning Conference Delegates Into Sales Leads
You’ve landed a great speaking spot at a national conference. The audience is full of prospects from your target market, and what’s more, they’re all looking up at the podium waiting to hear you speak.
Get Ready For Speaking To Generate Leads Fast
Don’t panic! If you would rather stick pins in your eyes than get up in front of people to speak, you can still use this same approach to generate leads from referrals and writing articles.
Getting Invited To Speak At Conferences
Speaking at conferences establishes you as an authority in your field and provides great networking opportunities. But how do you land those highly sought speaking gigs in the first place?
Combating The Fear Of Speaking In Public
Butterflies, pounding heart, sweaty palms, shaky knees. Sound familiar? These are symptoms of stage fright, and you can overcome them.
Speaking To An International Audience
Increasingly, CEOs and senior executives are being asked to speak to audiences made up of entirely different social and cultural backgrounds. Here are some tips to help you with the challenge of an international audience.
Maximise The Power Of Public Speaking
Public speaking is a fact of life, whether we like it or not. Whether you are doing a speech at a seminar or conference, or a pitch to clients at a workplace, somewhere along the line we have all done public speaking.
The Dreaded Q&A: How To Think On Your Feet
Imagine you've just given a great presentation where you've covered all of your key points. But wait, there's more! Most presentations end with a question and answer (Q&A) session. Are you ready for the Q&A?
Motivational Speaker Myths And Madness
Motivational speakers are like Chinese food. You're hungry an hour later. Ever hear that one? Somebody is eating at the wrong Chinese restaurant if they're hungry an hour later, and if the motivational speaker left you wanting, he or she wasn't very good.
Create High-Value Presentations That Attract New Business
In challenging economic times, buyers look for value. The more you provide, the more likely you are to become the provider of choice. Presentations offer excellent opportunities to provide that value at different stages of the business development cycle.
Using The Patterns Of Nervous Tension
The whole thing about getting nervous when you speak is serious and maybe not something that ever truly goes away. And maybe that's the way it's meant to be ...
How To Regain Control When Your Presentation Goes Wrong
Many leaders and who present are often loath to prepare for unlikely events. World class presenters head off disaster before it happens. They anticipate what might go right or wrong and build in key concepts or frames to manage the possible fall out.
Lessons From Social Media That Enhance Your Presentations
Blogs, YouTube, Twitter, and other social media tools have changed the way we deliver ideas inside and outside of work. Combine these tools with research findings into how the brain works, and business owners have new ways to enhance their pitches and presentations. Here are four of them.
The Golden Rules Of The Q&A Session
Question and answer (Q&A) sessions are excellent audience participation techniques which work really well with larger groups (20 plus) where spontaneous questions just don't work - if done correctly.
Getting Audience Participation When Speaking
I'm going to share with you 18 ways to encourage audience participation.
How To Start Any Presentation With Style
The ABC and D of presentations. A clever neumonic to help you with the first few minutes of any presentation, to get it off to the right start and give you lots of confidence to continue.
How To Use Presentation Slides To Best Effect
Properly used, slides can significantly boost the interest and effectiveness of a presentation. Poorly used, they can significantly damage it. It takes only slightly more effort to do the job well than to do it poorly. You owe it to yourself and your audience to make this minor investment for a major return.
The Mathematics Of Persuasive Communication - Oral Presentations
Above anything else, the success of an oral presentation depends on the precision of its structure. Mathematics is all about precision. It is, therefore, not so odd to think that applying some of the concepts of mathematics to oral presentations could make them substantially more effective.
The Mathematics Of Persuasive Communication - Clarity And Conciseness
When someone reads an expository text or listens to an expository speech, they are likely to judge it as "good" or "not good". You probably do this yourself. But what do you actually mean when you say a text or a speech is "good". After some struggling, most people will usually settle on two criteria: clear and concise.
The Mathematics Of Persuasive Communication - Density
There are various methods to generate such a strong desire to read, depending on the type of readers and the type of information. Whatever the most appropriate device, the crucial thing is to recognise the imperative need to use it. Until this need is met, nothing else is of any importance.
Speak For Success
Do you make compelling presentations? If not here's a few tips that may help.
Microphone Technique 101
Here are nine tips on microphone technique to maximise your message, and not ruin your reputation, when giving a speech.
7 Reasons Speakers Flop - Part 2
In the article '7 Reasons Speakers Flop - Part 1 I outlined the first four common reasons executives fail at speaking. In this article, find the remaining three.
7 Reasons Speakers Flop - Part 1
Few things create a more vivid perception of an executive than his speaking ability. The higher executives rise in an organisation, the more frequently they are called upon to address others.
Connecting With Your Audience
In this article we look at various aspects of how to connect with your audience. It is necessary to understand this if we are to give a good presentation and achieve the result we are looking for.
Building The Body Of Your Presentation
Have you ever heard that the way you present your ideas is as important as the idea itself?
The Importance Of Preparation
In real estate it's location, location, location. In presentation skills it's preparation, preparation, preparation.
Book-ending Your Presentations
Bookends start and finish a set of books on a mantle piece. The books would collapse without them. Bookends also apply to dealing with people. Simple conversations, business presentations and corridor negotiations all have bookends to keep them intact. In this article, I focus on business presentations and tell you what I mean about bookends and their importance in delivering a successful and professional presentation.
The Importance Of Useful And Stimulating Visuals
Most people use PowerPoint these days, although some use the tried and trusted overhead projector (OHP).
How To Pack A Punch In Your Presentations
Keep it short, sharp, punchy and visual.
How To Write An Introduction That Positions You Professionally
Ever been introduced and been disappointed with the outcome? Four key questions to craft a professionally polished introduction.
Personal Impact - Public Speaking
There are some people who walk into a room and you can almost feel the energy levels in the room double. Other people walk into a room and seem to drain the room of energy - energy vampires.
Public Speaking Training Tips For Better Business Presentations To Culturally Diverse Audiences
Audiences around the world are all different. Cultural, social and religious differences impact on how people learn, take in information and interact with presenters.
How CEOs Can Take The Drama Out Of Public Speaking In 35 minutes Or Less!
There’s no need to add an acting degree to your financial and business qualifications but if you want to give your audience a memorable experience and get them to act on your message, try adding a little GLOSS to your presentation.
How Senior Managers Can Avoid Being ... 'Junior Presenters'
Every presentation, short or long, formal or otherwise, involving any type of audience...is a clear reflection of executive quality and potential.
Presenting With Impact - It's A Skill That Can Be Learnt
Do you have a presentation due sometime soon? Presenting is a skill that you can learn and improve with practice. Confidence and a feeling of being in an acceptable comfort zone come from careful preparation, rehearsal and a strong will to succeed. Follow these tips.
Putting Your Business On A 'Sound' Basis
In the current very competitive business climate, the personal presentation of proposals is becoming vital in achieving a successful outcome.
Successful Presenting
Begin with the end in mind & 'know your audience, know yourself & know your stuff!'
Two Keys To Successful Presentations
A successful presentation is one that communicates with your audience. The keys to ensuring this are to know your message and know your audience.