| Public Speaking - The Number 1 Fear Part II by J. Douglas Jefferys |
Fight or Flight
When the hypothalamus, which regulates most bodily functions, receives the threat signal, it sends a group of hormones to the pituitary gland at the base of your brain This in turn releases hormones that activate your adrenal glands, which sit on top of your kidneys - a spot ideally centralized in the body to make for the shortest trip to all parts of the body for the adrenals' output: adrenaline |
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| Public Speaking - Let's Get Physical by J. Douglas Jefferys |
Passion
Although developing proper eye-contact technique and learning how and when to pause are absolutely essential to acquiring "The Skills" - you're not finished yet The last element involves adding the emotional to the mechanical |
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| Public Speaking - Lock, Talk & Pause by J. Douglas Jefferys |
| The process that sets you on your way to speaking like the best speakers in the world, speakers who possess The Skills, goes like this: You find a target in your audience and you lock eyeballs You deliver a complete thought to that one person, and then you do the hardest part, you pause |
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| Public Speaking – Owning “The Skills” Part II by J. Douglas Jefferys |
| In order to present at the top, in order to acquire The Skills, you must remember three rules that govern everything you do whilst presenting They're really quite simple, but sometimes it’s easy to forget the simple things, and these rules must remain in the forefront of your consciousness at all times |
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| Public Speaking – Owning “The Skills” by J. Douglas Jefferys |
| People who get paid well to speak all share one of two traits: either they're famous, or they own "The Skills" To be able to move people who don't know you as a celebrity of some sort, you must know how to keep your audience focused on you and your message, and how to keep them on the same page, on the same wavelength, every step of the way |
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| Public Speaking - Masters of the Pause Part II by J. Douglas Jefferys |
An Inconvenient Speaker
We have made the claim many times that Bill Clinton is the Master of the Pause In fact, we have said that it is exactly this mastery that causes more people in polls to name the former president as the greatest living public speaker hands down |
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| Public Speaking - Masters of the Pause Part I by J. Douglas Jefferys |
| It's common to believe, when you listen to great speakers at work, that certain people are simply born with the talent to speak well, and therefore no amount of training or practicing is going to transform you into a great speaker, no matter how hard you try And while it's true that both John Kennedy and Bill Clinton have what most people don't - charisma - their ability to speak as they do was not part of what they were born with |
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| Public Speaking - Learning to Say, "I Don't Care!" by J. Douglas Jefferys |
| Early in the movie, The Fugitive, Officer Gerard catches up with Dr Kimball near the outlet of a high dam |
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| Public Speaking - One Person, One Thought, One Pause by J. Douglas Jefferys |
Perhaps the most difficult thing for speaker to learn is knowing when and where to stop speaking
When you pause, you establish the pace from the beginning of your talk |
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| Presentation Skills - Three Points and Your Out! by J. Douglas Jefferys |
Organizing Your Presentation
Before organizing your presentation keep reminding yourself that Less is More Also consider that most presentations have far too many concepts, and the concepts far too many details |
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| Presentation Skills - Organization is Key Part IV by J. Douglas Jefferys |
| In Part III we discussed the four different types of evidence you can use: Personal, Statistics, Example, and Analogy Each has its good points, and the type of evidence you choose will depend on both your topic and your audience |
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| Public Speaking - Top 10 Tips Part I by J. Douglas Jefferys |
| Know that public speaking is the number one human fear So if you have ever been or are a bit nervous about giving presentations in public, realize you are not alone |
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| Presentation Skills - Organization is Key Part III by J. Douglas Jefferys |
| In Part III we discussed the importance of making sure that you tell your audience what your solution or recommendation is immediately after announcing the problem or opportunity at hand Audiences absolutely need to know where you’re going from the beginning in order to put into proper perspective the evidence you unfold |
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| Presentation Skills - Organization is Key Part II by J. Douglas Jefferys |
Opening with a “Bang”
You’ve got at most 30 seconds to give your audience a compelling reason to sit up and listen to what you’ve got to say, or you’ve lost them to their Blackberries or Suduko Now that they’re listening, you’ve got to structure what you’re going to say in a way that makes for the easiest possible path for them to follow |
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| Presentation Skills - Organization is Key Part I by J. Douglas Jefferys |
| We begin with Part I of a 4-part series on organizing the sequence of your presentation so that your information creates maximum impact on the audience Getting off the right start is absolutely critical |
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| Public Speaking - Top 10 Tips Part II by J. Douglas Jefferys |
| Know that public speaking is the number one human fear So if you have ever been or are a bit nervous about giving presentations in public, realize you are not alone |
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| Public Speaking - Knowing When to Stop! Part I by J. Douglas Jefferys |
The Pause
In our classes we have participants work through a number of exercises, and people quickly learn that indeed, it's much more comforting when you can give your presentation to one person at a time When you get to the point where instead of trying to crank your whole system up, you actually look at one person at a time, letting everything else go, you start a process in which you can settle down and feel much more comfortable |
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| Public Speaking – the Physiolgy Behind the Fear by J. Douglas Jefferys |
| Mark Twain is often quoted as saying, “There are two types of speakers, those that are nervous and those that are liars” As it turns out what was true in Mark Twain's time is still true today |
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| Public Speaking – Seeing Eye-to-Eye by J. Douglas Jefferys |
| In the presentation skills classes that our firm coaches, we begin with what we call our "Benchmark" exercise Participants, one at a time, stand in front of the group and tell us about themselves, speaking for no more that a minute or so |
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| Public Speaking - Eye Contact Exercises by J. Douglas Jefferys |
Modern presentation theory espouses a conversational approach to presenting, because that’s the way to maximize both comfort and trust between you and the audience
The conversational approach, a modern refinement of the humanist style first made popular in western cultures by president John F |
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| Presentation Skills - The 7 Rules of Visual Design by J. Douglas Jefferys |
| The following comprise the rules of presentation visual design that, if heeded, will almost always assure that your audiences will be able to follow your ideas every step of the way. |
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| Presentation Design – Dealing with the Prohibitor General by J. Douglas Jefferys |
| When we see a slew of equally bad slides from different people in the same organization, we’re fairly certain that the company has a slew of workers in a Presentation Regulations Department working feverishly to hamstring any attempt by an employee to make their slides understandable, much less compelling. |
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| Presentation Design – Too Much Information by J. Douglas Jefferys |
| In order to get your audience to buy in to your message, you must prepare and deliver it in a way consistent with adult learning theory. |
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| Presentation Design – The Good, The Bad, & The Mediocre by J. Douglas Jefferys |
| Your job as a presentation designer is to make ideas into visual images. For your presentations to work, the visual images must convey exactly what you want to say and require the least possible effort on the part of your audience to “get it”. The difference between a visual that works and one that fails is good design. |
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| Presentation Skills – The Rightly Timed Pause by J. Douglas Jefferys |
| People only start listening when you stop talking. To put it another way, one of the very best things you can ever do while speaking is to NOT. |
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