As a presenter, don't make these 4 big mistakes.
You want to be a great presenter?
Well, you got to stop making these particular mistakes.
The reason why I am telling you this is so you're not boring.
You don't flop.
I hope your audience loves your presentation.
So, let's warn you of what of what other people do that they don't even know is a really,
really big mistake.
Let's help you be a great presenter.
Okay, first thing you got to do.
As a presenter, you got to realize, you are not the rock star.
Even though you're upfront, even though you're the one teaching, you are not the rock star.
Who is the rock star then?
It's the students.
It's the audience.
You always make the audience the rock star.
You make it all about them.
They're the one who wins.
They're the one who's going to have progress.
You celebrate them.
And as much as they want to give applause, you turn around on them going, "Give yourselves
a big round of applause."
Boy, you can tell difference between people who need their ego built because they soak
up all the applause and they take it from the audience.
But I think what a presenter got to do is have the people give themselves around of
applause.
And keep turning all the attention back to the students.
So that they are the rock star.
You are not the rock star.
I don't care how much you love to be in front of people.
Get that title off of you.
So that the students feel appreciated.
Okay, number 2 on making a mistakes is your talking over their head.
I see people use too big of words.
Too fancy words.
Too complex.
The more complex your presentation is, you lose people.
And I know.
You think it's really fun to be able to dazzle the audience, right?
With all your smarts and all your wuhoo!
All the good things you know.
But really what works is what it simple down to earth and doable.
Simple, down to earth and doable.
You know, they can get on the internet and learn information.
They did not have to come to your event.
They did not have to listen to you.
But what they're hoping you're going to do for them is you're going to simplify things.
Be able to put it in to actions.
Be able to put it in to doable steps.
So, as long as you're talking to their head, you could be dazzling them.
But you're also losing them.
Don't make that mistake.
Okay, next mistake is this right here.
A presenter who does not allow the audience to ask questions?
Wow, you're missing out the major gold nugget moment.
The reason why as a presenter that that's a golden moment is you get to learn what you
didn't cover.
Because when the audience ask questions, you start to realize somethings you left out or
you didn't even think about teaching.
And what that does is it helps expand your understanding of what the audience wants.
So on one side, you learn from the audience from their questions.
On the second side, because you're willing to let them ask questions, it shows, confidence.
And it also shows expertise.
And so, the audience is so grateful, they get to get clarification.
So, you're going to win from this, they're going to win from this.
And you don't want to miss out on a Q&A time.
But the audience loves it when they get to ask questions and clarify the information
you just taught.
Or to expand a little bit more in particular area of the information that you shared.
But new presenters tend to completely avoid the Q&A time.
And they just don't do it.
Because they think, "Oh, my gosh.
What do I do if I don't know the answer?"
If you don't know the answer, you just say, "I don't know the answer to that."
And then you move on to the next question.
You don't have to know everything to do a Q&A.
But when you start to do a Q&A and you keep doing it over and over.
And you know, in different presentations, you're going to get really good at it.
And you'll learn to people and the people will love you.
Because people like to have clarification on what it is that you taught.
Okay, this next one that the mistake that they make is poor eye contact.
It's like when you're teaching and you're looking over the top of the audience.
You're not even looking at the people.
You're staring at the back wall.
What?
Is the wall more important than the people, right?
Don't do that.
You look right at the people.
You look at the people on the front, you look at the people on the back, you look at the
people in the middle.
You look at the people.
And every person you look at in the audience is going to feel like you're talking right
to them.
It just takes your presentation to a whole level of being personal.
After some of my presentations, what happens is people walk up and they're like, "Hey,
you're looking right at me.
I can tell you're talking to me."
And I love that part.
I love that they feel that personal connection from me.
So they know that I care about them.
But yeah, don't do the thing where they say...
You know, where people say, "Oh, just stare at the back wall."
We all know where the back wall is.
And there's no people that tall.
And so we can tell when you're stating at the back wall.
And then we start to realize, you're not even talking to us.
All you're doing is you're data dumping.
Look at us.
we're the audience.
Look right at us.
Make us feel like we're human.
Because if I can feel like I'm human and you're talking to me, I'll listen to what you're
saying.
But if you look at the back wall, I'm not going to listen to you.
Because you're just data dumping.
So you look at the audience.
Here's the tip about eye contact though.
I saw a guy do this once.
Where he looked at the people here and he looked at the people over here and he looked
at the people over here.
And he's jerking his head back and forth, back and forth like this.
And it looks really silly.
So, you don't jump from one side to the other side.
What you do is you look at the people over here then you slowly move to the next people
over here and you slowly look to the people over here.
So you work your way across the room.
And so, my governing rules about every 4 to 5 sentences, I shift to another section on
the room.
Not clear to the other side.
You kind of work your way through the audience by ever 4 or 5 sentences.
And you really look at one person in the audience and talk to them for 4 to 5 sentences.
It causes that person in everybody in that section to feel that personal connection.
So, don't make a mistake of doing poor eye contact.
No, don't do that.
It makes you look like a newbee.
It makes you look like you don't know what you're doing.
Okay, 4 mistakes you just got to cut out.
Stop doing these things so you can look great.
Okay, presenters.
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