A GUIDE FOR WINNING OVER AUDIENCES

Win over any audience and achieve your personal and professional goals in the process. You ask these thought provoking questions;

1. How do you prepare for a presentation?

2. What techniques do you use when giving a presentation?

You can win over any audience with these tips and techniques for connecting with audiences who demand passion, inspiration, preparation, clarity, brevity and simplicity.

1. GET THEM TO CARE

- How can you convey that you've passionate about a topic you're a presenting?

- Why do you believe in your service, product, company or cause? Why should your listeners care?

- What is your connection to your story and how can you share this with your audience?

- Who do you consider an inspiring speaker? Why?

- Think about a presentation you will be giving:

             - What does your audience need to know?

             - Why should they care?

             - What action do you want them to take?

2. GRAB THEM AND KEEP THEM

- Try crafting a thirty-second lead that you can use when you're pitching? Use these four questions to get started:

             - What is your service, product, company or cause?

             - What problem do you solve?

             - How are you different?

             - Why should your audience care?

- Think about a presentation you will be giving:

             - Where is the wow? (The "Wow" is the one thing that will              make your audience sit up and pay attention.)

             - Is there jargons you can replace with simpler, more                        relatable words?

             - Audience attention drops off after 10 to 18 minutes. Can                you get your message across in that amount of time?

             - If you have 25 words to describe your service, product,                  company or cause, how would you do it?

3. BLOW THEM AWAY BY TALKING, WALKING AND LOOKING LIKE A LEADER

- Have you ever watch a video of yourself presenting to check your tone, pace and enunciation? If so, what did you find? If not, think about ways you can get feedback on these before your next presentation.

- Separate into partners and tell each other a quick story (5 minutes or less). Afterwards comment on each other's:

             - Posture (is it open or closed?)

             - Eye contact (are you maintaining eye contact for too short              or too long?)

             - Hand gestures ( do you use gestures - how much and                      when?)

4. LEAVE THEM WANTING MORE

- How often do you practice before giving a presentation?

- What do you say to yourself when you're presenting? Do you build yourself up, or knock yourself down? How does this affect your presentation?

- After presentation, do you review your performance? If so, what do you do? If not, think about ways you can build this into your presentation process.