The document provides a comprehensive guide on public speaking, detailing strategies to overcome anxiety and effectively engage an audience. Key components include crafting a compelling story, optimizing presentation design, and adhering to ten crucial tips for delivering a successful speech. It emphasizes preparation, understanding the audience, and maintaining confidence to ensure impactful communication.

1. Master Public
Speaking
Part 1- Overcoming anxietyPart 4- 10 tips to deliver a
great speech
Part 2- Put together a
compelling story
Part 3- Optimize the design
of your presentations
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2. Public speaking and stage fright:
the #1 fear of any workers
2Part 1- Overcoming anxiety
What is the source
of anxiety?
* To be in the spotlight
* To look unprepared
* To appear ridiculous
* To show our lack of experience
* To face a difficult audience with unexpected
questions

3. Overcoming anxiety come with hardwork: the right
preparation, practice and presence on stage
3Part 1- Overcoming anxiety
1- Pull together a compelling story based on
thoroughly researched facts and data (part
12)
2- Let your slides speak by themselves and
tell your story. The right design and tips to
develop a winning presentation (part 3)
3- Deliver with style and confidence. Follow
the 10 successful tips described in part 4.

4. About the audience
4Part 2- Put together a compelling story
* People Think Faster Than
Hear
* Have Short Attention Span
* Jump to Conclusions
* Are easily Distracted

5. Framing your audience:
ask yourself the right questions:
5Part 2- Put together a compelling story
* What does your audience know about your presentations?
* How many? Demographics? Beliefs and value?
* Are they receptive/antagonistic?
* Why did they come? Which personal objectives to they pursue? What is
driving them?
* Do they have a problem in common they are thrying to solve?
* What do they expect?
* What is your call for action? Inform only, approve, decide, ...

6. Clarify the purpose of
your presentation
6Part 2- Put together a compelling story
* Inform
* Inspire / Persuade
* Sell, convince
* Entertain
* Introduce
* Accept
* Pay Tribute
* Seek approval
* Reach a consensus, decide

7. The ABCD of your story - Outline example
7Part 2- Put together a compelling story
A- Intro
* Typically: who are you, what is the main
subject, what you want to achieve today,
expected length
* Safety, evacuation, mobile off
* Start with a question engaging the
audience
B- Develop central idea
* Describe the problem you are solving,
the central ideas, solution features and
benefits
* Articulate one clear message
* Narrow into specific topics

8. The ABCD of your story - Outline example
8Part 2- Put together a compelling story
C- Collecting inputs & feedback
* Open or close questions
* Get instant feedback with text message poll like polleverywhere.com
* Voting, post-it's, carousel, ...
D- Summary
* Repeat your main message
* Present next steps or call for action: buy, approve, next meeting, ...
* Present references and supporting materials
* Talk to the audience, collect verbal feedback as they exit

9. Structure your presentation to keep the audience
actively listening and engaged
9Part 2- Put together a compelling story
* Keep speech focused on message, do not digress
* Divide speech into compact segments, make sure that it flows logically
* Listen to audience question and feedback carefully: verbal and non-verbal
signs
* Adapt to situation
* Plan for a minimum of 4 minutes per slide: less for a simple slide like a
quote, much more if you expect questions or a dialogue

10. Click on the screen

11. Find out exactly how you will present
This will determine the font size, color scheme,
use of sound, flipcharts or not, ...
10Part 3- Optimize the design of your
presentations
* Indoor/Outdoor, size and Shape of Room
* Arrangement of Seating, distance from the screen
* Projection equipment: test with your laptop, are the colors
right?
* Lighting
* Acoustics: test the microphone and speakers
* Wifi availability
Visualize your room,
where you present,
what will happen...

12. Use a consistent template
11Part 3- Optimize the design of your
presentations
* Use a set font and color scheme.
Different styles are disconcerting.
Choose size 20 or more for readability
* Choose a clean font that is easy to read. Arial
or Verdana are easier to read than Script or
Comic .
* Make sure the audience to focus on what you
present, not the way you present.
* Make sure that your pictures also follow a
consistent style

13. Basic rules about the use of bullets, capital and italics
12Part 3- Optimize the design of your
presentations
* Keep each bullet to one line, two at the most.
* Limit the number of bullets in a screen to six
* Use bullets to “cue” the audience in on what you want to say.
* Do not use all capital letters,
except for emphasis
* Avoid acronyms
Use Italics for
* for “quotes ”
* to highlight thoughts or
ideas
* For book, journal, or
magazine titles

14. Things you should not do
13Part 4- 10 tips to deliver a great speech
* Read directly from notes
* Read directly from screen
* Turn back on audience
* Slouch, hands in pockets
* No um, ah, you know’s
* Nervous gestures
* Talk too fast, too quietly,
incomprehensibly
* Show a lack of confidence
* Sit all the time
* Hide behind the media

15. Deliver your speech with confidence,
right from the start
14Part 4- 10 tips to deliver a great speech
What you should do:
* Maintain Eye contact
OK to glance at notes, but furtively
* Use appropriate gestures and movement to add
energy to your speech: move slowly around the room.
* Use the white board, put your thought into a
picture
* Ask rhetorical questions to involve audience:
are you OK? Can you hear me fine?

16. 10 successful tips to control the room and deliver a
successful presentation
15Part 4- 10 tips to deliver a great speech
1- Know the room- become familiar
with the place of presentation
2- Know the audience- greet or chat
with the audience beforehand. It’s easier to
speak to friends than to strangers
3- Know your material-increased
nervousness is due to un-preparedness
4- Relaxation- relax entire body by
stretching and breathing so as to ease the
tension, listen to music

17. 10 successful tips to control the room and deliver a
successful presentation
16Part 4- 10 tips to deliver a great speech
5- Visualize giving your speech-Visualize
yourself giving your speech from start to
finish. By visualizing yourself successful,
you will be successful
6- People want you to succeed-the
audience is there to see you succeed not to
fail
7- Do not apologize-by mentioning your
nervousness or apologizing, you will only be
calling the audience’s attention to mistakes
Mind-mapping can be used as
an effective visualization
technique

18. 10 successful tips to control the room and deliver a
successful presentation
17Part 4- 10 tips to deliver a great speech
8- Concentrate on your message-not the
medium. Focus on the message you are trying
to convey and not on your anxieties
9- Turn nervousness into positive energy-
nervousness increases adrenaline, transform it
into vitality and enthusiasm
10- Gain experience-experience builds
confidence, which is key to effective public
speaking

19. Presentation Skills - Learn from the Best by Andy
Harrington
18Part 4- 10 tips to deliver a great speech

20. Be conscious of the challenge, invest yourself with
passion to pull together the best presentation, deliver
with energy and confidence
19In summary
* Recognize & acknowledge your fear
* Channel your nervousness into a thorough
research & preparation
* Know your audience
* Clarify your purpose
* Polish your slides, formatting
* Use powerful metrics and graphs
* Practice and practice again
* Alone, at home, with co-workers
* Deliver with confidence
* Apply the 10 successful tips

21. Click on the screen

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