Fearless Presentations Doug Staneart

For the last few weeks, I've covered a number of topics about how to create great presentations. And on social media, I've received a few questions like, "What does a presentation design have to do with public speaking fear?" 

The answer is simple. If you try to deliver a terrible speech to any audience, you'll be way more nervous. However, if you design a fantastic speech, you may never even get nervous in the first place. If your audience likes and respects your content, they will overlook a lot of minor glitches.

The opposite is true as well. If your presentation stinks, every minor glitch in your delivery will be exaggerated. 

Last week, we covered a simple three-step process to help you deliver more persuasive speeches. This week, I will elaborate on that topic a little more. We will focus on a specific type of persuasive presentation - a proposal speech.

This can cover any type of business proposal, including sales presentations, presenting your ideas in a staff meeting or team meeting, or even something as simple as trying to get your boss to change vendors.

Remember that for most people, keeping the status quo is less risky than trying something new. So, these types of presentations need a little more finesse than just a normal informational presentation.

In this episode, I'll take you step-by-step through the process.

For the last few weeks, I've covered techniques that you can use to design better presentations. We talked about ways to start a speech first. Then, we covered how to design a good presentation. Next, we covered how to end a presentation. 

For the next couple of episodes, though, I'm going to share a few secrets about designing presentations that may also come in handy.

Today, I'll give you a very simple three-step process to help you make your presentations more persuasive. This simple process works very effectively if you are trying to sell an idea or a product to your audience.

For the last few episodes, I've shown you how to start a speech, how to design a speech, and, last week, how to end a speech. But before we end this series, I wanted to cover one often-overlooked part of creating a compelling presentation.

Today, I'm going to show you how to introduce yourself to an audience so that your presentation starts off on the right foot.

Remember, when you are speaking to a new audience, they don't know who you are, what you want from them, or why in hell they should even listen to you. 

In this short session, I'll give you one of the best ways to establish your credibility to a new audience without sounding like you're bragging. In fact, if you do this really well, your audience will want to pay attention to the rest of your speech.

This week, we're continuing our series on how to design presentations that are more engaging for your audience. When your audience enjoys your speeches, they will give you positive feedback, which will boost your confidence.

A couple of episodes ago, I showed you a few fun ways to start a speech. Last week, I showed you a simple way to design a speech so you don't have to memorize the presentation word-for-word. And today, I'll cover a few ways to end your speech so you leave the audience wanting more from you. 

Remember that the last thing you say in your delivery will be what your audience remembers. In this episode, I'll show you a few ways to help your audience retain the most important items from the speech. We'll also cover a few ways to end your speech so that the audience sees you as a credible authority on the subject.

Keep in mind that different speech ending techniques can have totally different value for the audience. So, pick a speech ending that best helps your audience get the most value from your presentation.

Last week, we started a new series on how to design presentations that are more engaging for your audience. When your audience enjoys your speeches, they will give you positive feedback, which will boost your confidence.

Last week,, we covered seven ways to start your speech. Today, we'll cover a simple three-step process for designing a great presentation. When we teach presenters how to reduce nervousness when they speak, a major component of the process is designing a great speech in the first place. 

For instance, what most people do is write out everything they know about a topic. Then, they make bullet points in a slideshow that cover every minute component of this knowledge. Really, though, these bullet points end up just being cheat notes for the presenter. This is a terrible way to organize a speech. The process also increases nervousness exponentially.

The process I cover in this episode is really simple and works in 90% of the presentations I've seen in my career. First, I'll help you narrow down your topic to just the things that the audience is most interested in right now. Next, I'll help you create just a few bullet points based on what is most important to the audience. Then, finally, I'll show you how to reinforce each point with content that is easy to deliver without memorizing a bunch of stuff.

Use this process to design your next speech, and you'll get a lot of positive feedback from your audience!

This week we're starting a new series on how to design presentations that are more engaging for your audience. When your audience enjoys your speeches, they will give you positive feedback. When that happens, you confidence will go up.

In this session, we'll cover a few different ways to start a presentation effectively. What most presenters find is that once they say the first couple of sentences, their nervousness drops pretty dramatically. 

These seven presentation starters will help you win your audience over—even in the first couple of minutes of your presentation.

By the way, the episode is sponsored by FearlessPresentations.com. So if you are looking for a faster way to reduce public speaking fear or become a more persuasive speaker, 

We have 2-day public speaking classes coming up in Chicago, Charlotte, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Dallas, Atlanta, and Miami. For details, go to fearlesspresentations.com.