- The Greatest Fear: Step #5 – Face Your Fear -
Looking like the professional that you are (Step #4), and armed with slides that you know like the back of your hand, you are ready to deliver an effective presentation. The following tips will enable you to Face Your Fear of public speaking and successfully engage your audience.[…]
- The Greatest Fear: Step #4 – Project Your Image - It’s imperative that you give serious thought to the personal image that you project when you stand in front of an audience (even an audience of one). Before you speak a word, your spectators are unconsciously keying in and forming opinions on who they think you are. Don’t detract from all the great work you […]
- The Greatest Fear: Step #3 – Practice Your Message - “Practice DOES make perfect!” — By practicing your presentation, you don’t have to waste energy on worrying over things that may be forgotten. Follow the tips, be confident and RELAX. Tip #1 – Review your slides After the slides have been finished (Step #2) review them once again for continuity. Make sure that their progression […]
- The Greatest Fear: Step #2 – Prepare Your Material - Proper preparation is the best push forward that you can give yourself in your career. Now that you have your outline and the points that you would like to include in your presentation (Step #1), you can prepare your slides using the following tips. Tip 1: Know Your Tools “Know your software tool and your […]
- The Greatest Fear: Step #1 – Organize Your Data - Welcome to the first step of my five step plan for cultivating effective presentation/communication skills. Admittedly this is the least “sexy” of the five steps and some of you may think what follows is intuitive to everyone, but in my experience it’s not. Creating an outline for a presentation can seem like a formidable task […]
- The Greatest Fear - “What is your greatest fear?” Since the 70’s several prominent surveys have asked thousands of Americans just that, and over 40% of them have consistently answered “the fear of public speaking”. And surprisingly, the prospect of standing in front of an audience had been considered by most of those polled to be more frightening than […]
- Networking for Women - So you want to get into the Networking scene… Or do you? Networking is a skill that is an essential component of success in today’s business environment. Networking feels unnatural almost alien, to many women who have been introduced to it while attending their first typical networking event. The atmosphere […]
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