At Office & Training Solutions we spend a lot of time working with individuals who have to make presentations and need to master the art of communicating with confidence. Most people are familiar with the worst human fears stats below which suggests speaking to a group is our top fear at 41% as opposed to dying which is at 19% – meaning we would rather be in the box at a funeral than doing the eulogy!
So how did Steve Jobs (RIP) do it so well? According to Carmine Gallo from www.gallocommunications.com he mastered a few very simple techniques. We summarise just a few of these techniques …..all of which can be easily adopted by any speaker to increase the effectiveness of their delivery
- At the start of your presentation create a story with a great headline, set the scene, make it clear & memorable – if you use stats put them into context and connect the dots for your audience so they make sense
- Provide an outline and open and close each section of your outline so as to make it easy for the audience to follow your story
- Demonstrate enthusiasm, wow your audience and don’t send them to sleep, communicate passionately using words such as extraordinary, amazing, cool, awesome, incredible etc..
- Make your presentation visual, easy on the eye, paint a simple picture that doesn’t overwhelm
- Give your audience a show!
- You are an actor on stage so you need to rehearse, rehearse and rehearse some more but make it look effortless! Steve Jobs spent hours rehearsing for all his presentations.
Don’t convey – inspire and don’t forget that all important mastery of stage presence!
Remember the more you do it, the better you get and if we can help you to perfect your presenting skills, drop us an email to orla@ots.ie or call Orla on 086 3807802
