Fearless Presentations

The Importance of Self-Confidence People will judge our COMPETENCE by the CONFIDENCE that we show. For example, let’s say that you are going in for surgery, and just before you go under, the surgeon walks into your room. His posture is slouching, as he speaks, he stumbles over his words somewhat, and when you look at his hands, they are trembling a little. Now, it doesn’t matter how good of a surg...

We’ve all been there as a speaker. You walk out onto a stage or into the front of the room, and the audience is staring at you with skepticism written all over their faces. This stoic crown has no patience for speakers who waste their time, and their demeanor is showing that fact right now. You need a foolproof way to start your presentation so that you win over this audience. I’ve been there myse...

This is part 2 of a 2 part inspirational story about Doug Staneart — President and CEO of The Leader’s Institute ® and Creator of the Fearless Presentations ® Public Speaking Training Programs. This is my inspirational story of triumph over public speaking fear that allowed me to create one of the most successful training companies in the world!

Doug Staneart — President and CEO of The Leader’s Institute ® and Creator of the Fearless Presentations ® Public Speaking Training Programs. This is my inspirational story of triumph over public speaking fear that allowed me to create one of the most successful training companies in the world! I overcame being an incredibly shy kid who got beat up and bullied in grade school to become an NCAA foot...

Want to actually make money from speaking? Doug Staneart shares some incites from his 20+ years as a professional speaker and trainer about how you can make a fortune as a professional speaker. Show notes at How to Make a Fortune Speaking for a Living

Use This Step-by-Step Process to Create Content (Blog posts, motivational speeches, keynotes, etc.) Start by determining what your audience wants and needs by using five simple techniques from the podcast. Next, you don't have to reinvent the wheel. Instead, do some research and determine what other experts are saying. Add in some examples and stories to give the content flavor, and then use...

It's time to set the record straight. ANYONE can be a fantastic, world-class speaker with a little bit of training, a little bit of coaching, and a little bit of practice. It doesn't take years of study and practice, and it doesn't take thousands of dollars of investment. One of the hardest things to get across to new presenters is the immutable fact that just about everything that...

Are you a nervous public speaker? A majority of the population has some type of fear of public speaking. Ironically, a great deal of this nervousness or anxiety comes from well-meaning friends or coworkers who are just trying to help. When we see a friend struggling, we naturally want to help. So, we might offer a little constructive criticism as a way to help a new presenter improve his/her publi...

Podcast 28 The Secret to Great Presentations: ENTHUSIASMIf you take only one piece of advice about public speaking, make sure that it is this pearl of wisdom. If you focus on this one simple thing, the number of times you say “uhm” won’t matter. If you focus on this one thing, your gestures and not knowing what to do with your hands won’t matter. If you focus on this one thing, then the occasional...

A few days ago, I started watching a Netflix documentary on how fractal mathematics helped start Pixar. (Yes, I watch really boring stuff on Netflix, but in my defense, I was watching it in bed, at night, trying to go to sleep. It worked.) We have always had a fantastic success teaching people how to design presentations that are based on just a few (three to five) main points. However, the docume...

In the podcast this week, I interview Cody Smith who is the author of the book Stage Fight — How to Punch Public Speaking Fears in the Face. It is a hilarious interview where Cody tells about all of the trials and tribulations that he experienced trying to overcome public speaking fear. Have fun listening to and learning from Cody Smith. Cody Smith is a young entrepreneur who realized very early i...

Last week, I got invited to deliver a presentation for a convention in Orlando, Florida. The session that they had me design was about how to help their attendees communicate in a more persuasive way when making recommendations to patients and customers. I decided to recap the content of that presentation in this podcast.

Last month, I helped a client re-design their medical training sessions so that they were more interesting and more interactive. As with many training sessions in medicine, it was important for the presenters to cover all of the steps because the safety of the patient was involved. However, when we deliver many, many steps in a single class, participants are likely to forget important parts or bec...

We have a great TechFind that is an Online Speech Creator. It is very helpful if you are trying to design a speech or presentation. On this episode, we step away from the how to present effectively and focus more on the why. Presentation training and communication skills are essential in today's business world. This episode explains why that is.

A couple of months ago, my father passed away. Even though I'm the middle child, I'm the only sibling who is a professional speaker. So, my brother and sister turned to me to deliver the eulogy. Being a professional speaker, you'd think it would be very easy to design a 10-minute speech about my dad. However, I have to confess that, not only was the speech fairly difficult to create...

Face it, most people hate meetings. Most people don't want to sit through boring presentations either. So, if you want to get your audience to want to listen to your presentation, you have to make it "Audience Focused". Focus on what the audience wants to hear, not what you want to tell them. SHOW NOTES: https://www.fearlesspresentations.com/podcast-make-presention-audience-focused

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