Fearless Presentations

In the last few weeks, I had a number of clients come to me asking that we create truly customized workshops and seminars. This happens quite often, but each of these situations had a similar thread that might be beneficial to our podcast listeners as well. In today's business world, we offices and team members are often remote. So, getting everyone together, in a single location, for an exte...

Quite often, when we are designing speeches and presentations for a professional audience, we discount the value of entertainment and humor. In reality, though, a good presentation is both informative and entertaining. Your speech has to be both. If you aren’t providing the audience with information that they didn’t already know, then you are wasting their time. If you aren’t providing some type o...

If you have to give technical presentations in your career, one of the most difficult challenges is to deliver the technical presentation to a non-technical audience. In this session, I offer a few shills that will help. These presentation skills also help non-technical people deliver better technical presentations as well. SHOW NOTES: https://www.fearlesspresentations.com/podcast-designing-techni...

In past episodes, we've talked about how to better design presentations, and how if you design your presentations a little differently, you can reduce public speaking fear. However, what do you do if someone just gives you a slide deck and says, "Okay, go deliver this." This episode gives you a few tips that can help you deliver a more "canned" presentation or a presentati...

In the last podcast, we spoke about venues where you can practice your public speaking skills. In this episode, I show you a few ways to use your public speaking confidence to market yourself or to market your products or services to the public. Some of these venues are ones where you can market yourself or your company so that you can be perceived as an expert in your industry. Other venues are o...

One of the most common questions that participants in our 2-day presentation class ask us after completing the class is, “Now that I feel more confident, where do I go to practice to continue to get better as a speaker?” In this session, I share a few ways to find speaking venues who are always looking for good speakers, and how to build a solid reputation as a good speaker so your reputation grow...

Impromptu speaking or speaking off the cuff is one of the most challenging types of presentations for most speakers. This episode gives a number of tips that you can use when speaking on an impromptu basis that will help you clarify your thoughts and persuade your audience. SHOW NOTES: https://www.fearlesspresentations.com/podcast-14-impromptu-speaking-and-how-speak-confidently-off-cuff

In this episode, I share a few public speaking secrets that I use as a presentation coach to assess the strengths and weaknesses of a presenter so that he/she can improve as a public speaker. I also uncover a few hidden secrets about personality temperaments as well. SHOW NOTES: https://www.fearlesspresentations.com/podcast-13-assessing-your-strengths-and-weaknesses-as-presenter

Podcast interview with Susan Schoenfeld who explains a few of her public speaking secrets for attorneys and other professional business people (accountants, engineers, doctors, architects, etc.) SHOW NOTES:   https://www.fearlesspresentations.com/podcast-12-presentation-secrets-attorneys-and-other-professional-business-people

Podcast interview with Tom Antion where he talks about how to design professional keynote speeches, how to create an additional revenue stream from speaking to groups, and how to use public speaking as a platform to increase your personal brand. SHOW NOTES: https://www.fearlesspresentations.com/podcast-11-tom-antion-interview-build-your-personal-brand-using-public-speaking

In this podcast, we add a little more detail about how to make your presentation more persuasive. Although we focus a lot on how to design sales presentations, this process works well whether you are selling a product or service, or if you are an executive trying to sell an idea. SHOW NOTES: https://www.fearlesspresentations.com/podcast-10-design-sales-presentations-that-persuade-even-the-toughest...

We back up a little in this podcast to explain exactly where public speaking fear comes from and how to eliminate that stage fright in just three simple steps. SHOW NOTES: https://www.fearlesspresentations.com/podcast-9-eliminate-public-speaking-fear-in-three-easy-steps

This week, we interview Eric Molin of PresentationExpert.net who is an international expert in presentation design. He specializes in coaching presenters when they are creating presentations to international audiences. Eric offers a number of great tips that will help if you are delivering presentations to audiences with diverse nationalities or who have English as a second (or third) language. We...

Great presenters know that stories are the backbone of any speech. This episode reveals a few public speaking storytelling techniques that will help you better engage with your audience, make your presentations easier to deliver, and more interesting for your audience. We also cover a handy TechFind that helps you organize your presentation and remember stories for your presentations. SHOW NOTES:...

If you want to avoid Death by PowerPoint, make sure and listen to the Presentation Bullet Point Design podcast by Fearless Presentations. In this session, I give a number of tips to help you design better bullet points so that you are using your slides as effective visual aids for your audience. These tips help you make your speeches audience-focused so that your listeners will enjoy your presenta...

This session covers a way to professionally print any presentation handout and have it delivered to your presentation by 8 AM the following morning. We also interview Mike Vayda, founder of Presentable U who gives 7 Silver Bullet (Points) that make PowerPoint slides that people actually want to read. SHOW NOTES: https://www.fearlesspresentations.com/podcast-5-powerpoint-make-slides-worth-seeing

In this podcast, we cover the importance of starting your presentation design with a great title. If you start with a narrow and "audience-focused" title, the entire presentation will practically write itself. The title also helps the presenter focus the content on just the most important things that the audience needs to know. This week, we have two new TechFinds which allow you to redu...

This session explains how to design entire presentations from start to finish in minutes versus hours or days. I'll explain the different types of presentations and how to determine what content (and how many bullet points) are needed for each type of presentation. If you follow this format, you can design your entire presentation very quickly and easily. We also have a new TechFind this week...

Both skills, the presentation tips, and the memory technique are invaluable to a speaker because a poised and confident speaker who can easily remember what he/she wants to say is very rare in the business world. SHOW NOTES: https://www.fearlesspresentations.com/10-ways-to-reduce-public-speaking-fear-online-seminar/

One of the fears of public speaking that comes up the most is, "I'm afraid I will lose my train of thought," or "I'm afraid I will forget what I'm going to say." So in the first session of Fearless Presentations®, our instructors combine the teaching aspect of delivering the 10 tips with a memory skill that helps people improve their memory dramatically in just a...