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Building confidence in Presentations

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by 2008-02-18 14:21:31

The fear of public ranks right up there with death and an IRS Audit for most of the population. What I will attempt to do here is give you a few tips & techniques and a bit of support when it comes time to make a presentation.

What do I define as a presentation? In the broadest sense, it's every encounter you have with every person you ever meet. It's when you sit squirming in an interviewer's chair trying to be eloquent when you are asked why you left your last job.

More specifically, however, I'm going to talk about the business presentation. Whenever you are asked to appear in front of one or more people for the purpose of explaining, educating, convincing, or otherwise conveying information to them, you have a presentation.

Compressed to its essence, a presentation consists of three basic elements: you, your audience, your message and your tools.

In this series, we'll look at each one, starting off with planning for your visuals and support materials. Later, we'll look at presentation and speaking techniques, attitudes, travel disasters and other problems faced by both the professional and the occasional presenter.