Get Your Audience Back

Get the attention of your audience back after break, by telling a story. Don’t wait til everyone is seated or quiet, just start talking and your audience will be seated and quiet faster than you can say, “May I have your attention!”

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Respect and Successful Presentations

The more respected you are, the more successful your presentations will be.

When I saw Brian Tracy speak it didn’t matter that he didn’t get introduced, it didn’t matter that the sound system was poor, and it didn’t matter that he was using an overhead projector. When you get to be as popular, as good, and as well-respected as Brian Tracy, then it won’t matter what you do on stage. Your audience will pay attention to every word your say.

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How to Read Your PowerPoint

If you tend to read your PowerPoint slides or notes, do what Oprah Does when she needs to read her teleprompter. Read a couple of sentences, pause, look at your audience, smile. Or throw out a comment or rhetorical question to the audience while looking at them. Do this and you will connect with your audience and keep them engaged.

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Most Common Words In Public Speaking

These words are not even in the dictionary, but it’s the most common words used when people give presentations. They are: “ah” and “um” If you use these words, many negative things happen. 1 – It’s distracting to your audience, 2 – You appear less confident of your topic, 3 – Your audience cannot keep up with you because most likely you are not pausing and you are talking non-stop. The most common public speaking words -“ah” and “um” are used as filler words. Next time you feel and “ah” or “um” coming on, just say nothing and pause

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Your Audience Likes You More Than You Realize

Halle Barry was nominated for an Oscar and was at Oprah Winfrey’s house the night before the Oscar Awards took place. Oprah asked Halle the following question: “Did you write a speech?” Halle said “no”. Oprah replied: “write a speech” Halle responded: “No. I’m not going to win.” Well she did win and guess what she said after the fact “I wish I had written a speech because I ended up going on and on. I wish I could have been better and remembered to thank the people I really wanted to thank.”

Once you’re on stage, you forget. Public Speaking can cause excitement and anxiety which makes it difficult to collect your thoughts on the spot. If you prepare your speech ahead of time, you will be able to present all the material you want and need to for your audience and you won’t be regretting it later.

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Feel Empowered When You Present

When Halley Barry was on the Oprah show talking about her experience in the movie Cat Woman she confessed it was during the time she was splitting up with her husband. She said the role fit exactly what she needed to do in her personal life. Thus she felt empowered and in control of her real life. When you act the way you want to be, you become that way. If you want to appear confident and dynamic when you give your next presentation, then act that way. It doesn’t matter if you feel it or not. No one has to know. The more youa ct it the more you feel it and the more you feel it the more you can become a great public speaker!

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Presentation Skills with Punctuation

Put a period after you sentence! Or an exclamation point, or a comma, or even quotes. I’m not talking about writing. I’m talking about speaking! Too many times I see people talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, without putting periods after their sentences. Which means they do not stop, pause, or take a breath. Let your audience know when you are done with a sentence by pausing for a moment. Give your audience a chance to absorb what you have said. Slow down, pause, and punctuate!

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