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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:
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Sixty seconds before your most important presentation,
try this:Pause and take a deep breath
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Sixty seconds before your most important presentation,
try this:Focus on what your audience wants
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Sixty seconds before your most important presentation,
try this:Visualize your core message
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Next time you feel anxious, “act as if ” you’re totally in command.
Your audience can’t feel what you’re feeling or thinking.
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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)
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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.
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Doing something courageous before that
big presentation elevates your confidence.
Try going first or imbedding questions in your delivery.
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Your audience wants you in the now, not in at some future date.Let them feel your presence by
not thinking about tomorrow.
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Stop thinking that communication is performance –think unscripted conversations instead
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Want to improve your presentation memory?Make fitness, nutrition and sleep a priority.
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Skip the powerpoint and create an outline instead –and make shaping the structure of your content your highest priority.
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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:
Really reflect...
What is it?
Really reflect...
How do you set the context of your presentation? Try framing it by answering these three questions:
Really reflect...
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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