Do you dislike public speaking? Hate talking to big groups? Ever give one of those talks and it was all a big blur?
…there is a new approach!
Public speaking or giving an effective presentation is too hard, so can I get good at it?
Giving an effective presentation is a crucial skill to being successful. Gemini’s coaching methodology enables you to be comfortable, convincing, charismatic, and engaging in speaking to small and large groups effectively, with ease and grace, as a natural self-expression.
Start by new thinking, new actions, new approaches–
-Be clear about what you have to say to the audience
-Stand for your nervousness can disappear entirely!
-Consider that people are totally engaged and inspired by your speaking
Speak Slow and Loud
To make it easy for people to hear and understand what you have to say, talk loud and slowly. More so that you think you need to.
Be Related
Look at individuals in the audience, not at all of them at once, not the ceiling, walls, or your notes. Relate to the audience as people on your side, NOT here to judge you. Even start to like them as people! Everybody wants the same thing- you want to do a good job, and they want you to do a good job. You want to give a good presentation, and they want to listen to a good one.
Be Inspiring
Before you talk, think a little about what is the overall larger purpose, vision or commitment that your talk is fulfilling? Make sure this is about other people, and focused on others, not something about yourself (except a few short shares). Is your focus on how to prevent global warming? To forge leaders? Create your company as a team of one? Empower your staff?
The way to inspire others during a talk is to start beforehand with you being inspired about what you are presenting, and when you are presenting have your attention on what will inspire them! The words you are saying are the tools to fulfill on that purpose. The key is it must be inspiring to you. You must BE inspired first to inspire others.
Be Self Expressed
Being naturally self-expressed is going to have people pay more attention and make it more fun for you. This means not being restrained, stiff, tight. Be excited and alive. Have fun and lighten up. Yes! What is the worst thing that can happen? You get embarrassed? So, what!
Be Interested
Get interested in what you are saying and be interested in those people you are presenting to. If you are not interested, nobody else will be either. The more interested in what you are saying, and the more you are interested in them, the more interested the audience will be, regardless of how dry the topic is to you, or you think it is to others.
Physical Presentation
Dress great, look your best. Move around if can, stand up straight, speak to the people, not your notes.
To have this happen, there are a few things to let go of:
Let go of your attention on:
- Yourself- give up “me” focus and put your attention on your audience
- Trying to look good, cool, and trying to avoid looking bad
- Not messing up. Doing it the “right” way
- Attachment to a certain outcome, result, or the way you think it ‘should’ look
Lastly, public speaking and giving effective presentations is not something you will get good at overnight. You must practice and really employ these principles.