Consider this. Any time someone hears you speak, it forms an impression, and a potential for loss or gain.
Let me share a quotation from luminary speaker and former New South Wales premier Bob Carr.
“If your speech sounds under educated there are people, consciously or unconsciously, who are marking you down”.
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Once again Barack Obama gave a pitch-perfect, luminary presentation at the 2020 United Stage Democratic National Convention.
Overall, Obama’s most powerful channel was not his words, cadence, voice or body language. But his feeling tone.
It was a feeling tone that conveyed deep concern, sadness, pain, frustration and hope.
2:04 – 2:10 minute mark: Use of the literary technique of ellipsis; ‘…marched for, went to jail for, fought for and died for’
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You may know of former heavyweight boxer,Mike Tyson’s famous quotation,
“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.”**
I mention this quotation, because being questioned by an aggressive audience member at the Q&A time of presentation you’re delivering – can seem like being punched in mouth.
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Consider this. If you’re perceived as rushing when you speak, that is junior behaviour – and can be seen as being submissive. If you are perceived as ‘owning’ time, you’ll project confidence and be seen as a senior.
Here is a 2:12 minute CLIP with a field-tested technique to stop being perceived as submissive and start projecting yourself with confidence.
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‘What is deep understanding? How can you realise when you don’t know something deeply . . . In everything you do, refine your skills and knowledge about fundamentals concepts and simple cases.
Once is never enough. As you revisit the fundamentals, you will find new insights.
It may appear that returning to basics is a step backward and requires additional time and effort: however, by building on firm foundations you will soon see
Delivering presentations can be daunting, even if you’re a seasoned veteran. Often, there’s a lot at stake… perhaps you are selling a product or business case, perhaps you are trying to position yourself for career growth.
To win over your audience, you need to deliver a winning presentation.
My crew and I have produced a video of a live Plan and deliver memorable presentations workshop. In the workshop – conducted for Caltex Australia – you’ll get insider access to how I conduct a live training session.
Continue reading‘Walks are personal, a movement signature, and they tell us a lot . . . a person’s walk is so telltale for Paul Taylor, one of the world’s greatest modern-dance choreographers, walking is the first thing he ask dancers to do at his auditions.
“I can eliminate half of them by how they walk . . . They’re either too self-assured enough, or they’re just weird. You can tell an awful lot.” say Taylor'(from Walking with Grace, p.166-167, by Grace Killelea).
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Recently a participant in one of my Delivering memorable messages programmes – a woman of relatively small, physical stature – made the above comment when I was coaching her on how to gesture, to inhabit the physical space in front and at the side of her body.
However, when I asked other participants who were observing her, whether they thought the woman was occupying too much space, they said that she wasn’t – and that she had projected more certainty than she normally did.
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This is my last post for the year.
To my regular readers, sometime readers and new readers – thank you for reading. I appreciate your support.
Posts will resume in February 2018, but there will be a change in direction with the blog.
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