In case you don't have time to read an entire book* or take a training class, please help your audience avoid a painful experience. Don't bore them to death with details that don't matter or subject them to your unenthusiastic reading of 97 slides, bullet by bullet.
Please, I beg you, before you open your mouth, just do these 5 things, and item 1 twice for good measure.
1. Know your audience.
2. Do not show technology. Show solutions. Problems solved. Efficiencies. Not bells and whistles.
3. Share stories, perspective, your own view on items. Not features.
4. Don't fill empty air space with extra words. ("You know", "if you will", etc.)
5. Please practice, learn, read, watch others. If we were all born with natural speaking abilities, there would be no need for caffeinated beverages.
'Nuff said?
Arrrgggggggggggh.
*Start with any book on speaking by Joey Asher but "Even a Geek Can Speak" has all of the answers and changed my life. Really. Unfortunately, no one is paying me to say this. But Joey, we can talk.
Please, I beg you, before you open your mouth, just do these 5 things, and item 1 twice for good measure.
1. Know your audience.
2. Do not show technology. Show solutions. Problems solved. Efficiencies. Not bells and whistles.
3. Share stories, perspective, your own view on items. Not features.
4. Don't fill empty air space with extra words. ("You know", "if you will", etc.)
5. Please practice, learn, read, watch others. If we were all born with natural speaking abilities, there would be no need for caffeinated beverages.
'Nuff said?
Arrrgggggggggggh.
*Start with any book on speaking by Joey Asher but "Even a Geek Can Speak" has all of the answers and changed my life. Really. Unfortunately, no one is paying me to say this. But Joey, we can talk.
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