One easy way to become a more engaging audience-centric presenter us to effectively harness your Vocal Power and simply Speak Up! Volume, inflection and rate of speaking combined can significantly impact your audience’s attention, interest in your message … and positive impression of you, the messenger.
Effective Presentations
Creating Audience Centered Presentations
Creating Audience-Centered Presentations can be a key to your career success in the job you have … or the job you want. And adding some new, different or better tools to your Workplace Presenter Tool Kits is simple … but not necessarily easy.
Slow Down … You Talk Too Fast!
Once you’re comfortable speaking up with more volume and vocal energy, it’s time to slow you down. An important component of your vocal delivery, your pace or rate of speaking can also impact your audience’s attention, interest and opinion of you. So can your ability to pause effectively.
Slide Into Success
I recently engaged in a lively LinkedIn Presentation group discussion about whether or not presenters should use slides. Here’s a summary of my comments, based on years of coaching executives, for you workplace presenters with similar concerns.
End Strong
Audience-Centric presentations should end, not just stop. And they should end strong. Introductions are critically important because you’re ‘Telling ‘em what you’re gonna say.’ Now, we focus on the equally important summary or conclusion, where you’re ‘Telling ‘em what you said.’
Laugh thru the Pain
Too many of us have to endure ‘Presentations from Hell’ too often at work. So, enjoy these two clever YouTube clips to help you laugh thru that pain: 1. Lots of amusing hints from Don McMillan about ‘Life after Death by PowerPoint’: 2. And ‘Every Presentation Ever’ is why I love coaching people how … Read more