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Listen to the full interview at http://www.33voices.com/matt-abrahams/audio Matt is a Lecturer in Organizational Behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business teaching the Strategic Communication elective. He received his undergraduate degree in psychology from Stanford, his graduate degree in communication from UC Davis, and a secondary education teaching credential from San Francisco State. He has published several articles on cognitive planning, persuasion, and interpersonal communication. He also teaches business psychology at Palo Alto University. He is the author of Speaking Up Without Freaking Out: 35 Techniques for Confident, Calm, and Competent Presenting, a book on public speaking anxiety management, and co-founder of Bold Echo Communication Solutions.
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Matt Abrahams
Co-Founder and Principal Bold Echo Communication Solutions
Lecturer in Organizational Behavior at the Stanford
Graduate School of Business
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Sixty seconds before your most important presentation,
try this:
No.1
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Sixty seconds before your most important presentation,
try this:Pause and take a deep breath
No.1
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Sixty seconds before your most important presentation,
try this:Focus on what your audience wants
No.1
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Sixty seconds before your most important presentation,
try this:Visualize your core message
No.1
33voices.com/Matt-AbrahamsNo.2
Next time you feel anxious, “act as if ” you’re totally in command.
Your audience can’t feel what you’re feeling or thinking.
33voices.com/Matt-AbrahamsNo.3
To connect with your audience,tell them a compelling story and put them in it
33voicesMatt Abrahams - Put your audience in the story (0.53)
33voices.com/Matt-AbrahamsNo.4
When rehearsing for a longer presentation,
chunk it.Condense it to shorter units and don’t practice them in the order that you’re going to deliver them.
33voices.com/Matt-AbrahamsNo.5
Doing something courageous before that
big presentation elevates your confidence.
Try going first or imbedding questions in your delivery.
33voices.com/Matt-AbrahamsNo.6
Your audience wants you in the now, not in at some future date.Let them feel your presence by
not thinking about tomorrow.
33voices.com/Matt-AbrahamsNo.7
Stop thinking that communication is performance –think unscripted conversations instead
33voices.com/Matt-AbrahamsNo.8
Want to improve your presentation memory?Make fitness, nutrition and sleep a priority.
33voices.com/Matt-AbrahamsNo.9
Skip the powerpoint and create an outline instead –and make shaping the structure of your content your highest priority.
33voices.com/Matt-AbrahamsNo.10
To gain the attention of your audience, try starting your presentation like a James Bond movie –in the middle of something
Really reflect...
How do you set the context of your presentation? Try framing it by answering these three questions:
Really reflect...
Really reflect...
How do you set the context of your presentation? Try framing it by answering these three questions:
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What is it?
Really reflect...
How do you set the context of your presentation? Try framing it by answering these three questions:
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So what?
Really reflect...
How do you set the context of your presentation? Try framing it by answering these three questions:
Really reflect...
Now what?
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