By: Stephen D. Boyd
Delivering an effective presentation to 20 or to 200 people is difficult. Because listeners have better access to information since the internet became commonplace, audiences expect more content from speakers today. In addition, because of the entertainment slant of most media today, audiences want a presentation delivered with animation, humor, and pizzazz.
If you would rather spend your time preparing your content than reading a book on public speaking, this is an article especially for you! From my experiences in delivering over l500 speeches during the past 20 years, here is a quick guide to giving an effective and interesting presentation your very first time.
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Thursday, October 18, 2007
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Monday, October 08, 2007
Just for fun
Just in case you are sitting at your computer with nothing to do –
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More items like this, and others that you can use in your speeches and poweroints, at the Pivotal Just for Fun pages
nothing at all …
http://www.widro.com/throwpaper.html
More items like this, and others that you can use in your speeches and poweroints, at the Pivotal Just for Fun pages
Friday, October 05, 2007
Help For Public-Speaking Anxiety
Fear of public speaking strikes some people harder — and differently — than others, according to a new study. The study shows that those who suffer most over speaking in public get more anxious, not less anxious, as their presentation gets under way. And when it's over, instead of feeling relief, they feel even more anxious.
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Tuesday, October 02, 2007
How Power Point Killed Public Speaking
The origins of the use of Power Point were solidly grounded in good intentions. Remember slides? People put pictures on them, or graphs -- visual aids. They were intended to act as accompaniments to lectures and presentations.
The whole idea was that the speaker would talk for a while, and then occasionally show a slide that illustrated a point with a picture or a striking image, or made a set of numbers clear with a bar graph or a pie chart.
Slides were time-consuming to create, and difficult to change. So most people used them sparingly. I once saw a speech by a National Geographic photographer that included a hundred slides, but each one was a uniquely wonderful picture he had culled from thousands, literally. He was entitled.
Then came Power Point.
More on Using Powerpoint on the Pivotal PowerPoint Pages
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