Your Presentation Best

How to Get Someone's Attention Have you ever seen a presentation that really caught your attention and kept it? Can you still remember the presenter and the message? If your like most people, this doesn't happen often. Think about all the presentations you've seen in the last year. How many were great and how many sucked? How many were a waste of your time? What's the single most important element in any great presentation? It gives your audience something of value. They leave your presentation knowing it was good for them. The take-away:  always make sure you are providing value to your audience. Make it about them . Give them a reason to remember you and your message.

The All Blacks get ready for action. Prepare, Practice, Ritual:  How to Manage Presentation Stress and Nervousness, Part III And now let's take a look at Ritual .  As anyone who's had to perform knows, there's always nervous energy before the big show. It doesn't matter if it's an athlete, a rock star, an experienced actor, or a presenter. The human body is hard-wired to automatically go into fight or flight mode at the first sign of danger. Now, genrally speaking, performing isn't dangerous, but the feelings we get before we perform send the same signals to the brain.   That means that no matter how prepared and practiced you are (and the more, the better), the brain will still swtich to fight or flight mode. The question is not do you have some nervous energy, the question is what do you do woth it? Do you let it rule you as fear or do you channel it into a productive way? A personal Ritual before you perform can help you to focus

Bull's Eye!  When Practice Pays Off Prepare, Practice, Ritual:  How to Manage Presentation Stress and Nervousness, Part II Today we continue our presentation stress management series.  In Part I we looked at Preparation. Now let's look at Practice . Once you've done your Preparation,  you are ready to get good and better. The basic concept is this:  the more you practice , the better you get. The better you get, the more you OWN it . You get better because you get more and more familiar with your message and  your content.   This raises your self-confidence.   It helps you to own it, to make it yours, and to feel good with it. Perfection is NOT the goal. Memorising is NOT the goal. The goal is to get so comfortable with it, that you could do it anywhere, anytime, and ultimately to anybody.  You want to be so comfortable with you presentation that you can have a passionate conversation about it. Take a good look at the gentlemen a