It's inevitable. You're going to give a presentation. So, watch closely so you
know how to deliver a great presentation.
Sometime soon, you're going to be giving a presentation. It's inevitable. You know
because of who you are and your personality that this presentation is
going to happen. And so, I'm going to share with you some tips that are going to make a
great difference for you and a great improvement on your presentation that
you're going to do. So, first off, you got to really just fall in love with the
people. You know, giving presentations is that public, you know, conversation and
being afraid of the public, forget all that stuff. If you can fall in love with
talking to one person, you can talk to a large group.
It really is. It's really a one-on-one conversation. And calm your mind down. You
can't make everybody happy out there in that audience. You really can't. So, what
you do is you imagine yourself giving advice to one good friend in the
audience. So, I got to think about is your sharing your advice is one good friend.
And if you can imagine that, that one good friend is really listening to you,
you will pour out your passion on those people in your presentation. So with
people, be sure that you have great eye contact. Really look at the individuals
and your audience. Don't look over their head, don't stare at the back wall. Don't
you know, go off in la-la land. You really show a lot of confidence when you give
great eye contact. Smile shows you're smart.
Smile shows you smarter. So, every time you smile and the audience is looking at
you, they're like, "Man, that person is confident, they're smart, they know what
they're doing." You could be shaking like crazy on the inside. But if you got a
smile on your face, Oh am I going to say, they think you got it all put together.
So, big smile, great eye contact. Now, the other thing is, when you're in front of
an audience, you want to give a tension to all areas of the room. Sometimes a
presenter will stand there and just stare straight forward. And there's
people sitting over on the right side and the left side and they get no
attention. Not even a look in that direction. So be
sure to address or connect with each section of the room. And wherever I was
speaking, I like to divide the up into 3 sections. A left, a right
and the middle. And then I want to make sure I'm giving equal attention to each
one of those areas. Great great tips here to connect with the people. Second is
your presence. And in with your presence, something you can do to really raise
that look of confidence is when you're standing up in front of people lift your
chin up just a little bit. Not way up there. That looks weird. But just raise
your chin up just a little bit because most of us are looking down to the
audience. And watch my face when I look down, it actually looks like something's
wrong. But when I look up I look hopeful like I have a vision of where we're
going. So, chin up. Next thing, hands, don't put them in your pockets. Don't put them
back behind your back. Keep them out here so that people can see your hands. When
they can see your hands, they trust you. When they can't see your
hands, they don't know what's going on. So, allow them to see your hands. Okay, this
is super cool. It's called speaking outside the box with your hands. Imagine
my shoulders and there's a line right here that's shoulder width. Then I got
from my neck to my belly button is the top and the bottom of the box. So,
shoulders, neck and my belly button. There's this box right here in front of
me. Like these... It's a border. You'll notice that new presenters will speak
and their hands will be inside this box. But what you do is you move your hands
on the outside of this box. By you just demonstrating that your hands can move
on the outside of this box, you will look larger-than-life compared to other
presenters. You'll look more confident, more sure of yourself compared to the
person who keeps their hands inside that box.
Okay, projection. It's all about your voice. Is your voice... Do you imagine your
voice going out there and literally going into the ears of the people? And
going into their mind and into their heart? That's a great visualization to
help you project your voice. So when you're speaking, you want to have inside
mind that you can see your voice going out amongst the people. And then also,
another way to project your voice is to believe that what you have to share has
value. If you're worried if it has value, your voice is going to shrink down, it's
going to pull in. And it's not going to have the projection power that it really
could. And then the last tip with projection is, here's a mindset to have.
To have the mindset of, "This is what I can do for you."
Compared to, "Does anybody in the room like me? Does anybody like me?" I remember
watching a YouTube video and a guy talked about this. I wish I can remember
his name. Changed my life forever about doing presentations. Because he said
there's a difference between people who stand there and go, you know this is how
I this is what I can do for you. That's a particular attitude compared to
the attitude of, "Do you like me? Do you like me? Do you like me?" I remember
watching this guy on his... It's actually on his website. Where I was watching a
YouTube video from his website. And he was talking about those two different
attitudes. And how when you're in the mode of like, "Do you like me? Do you like
me?" Your gestures your smaller, your voice is pulled in and you kind of just look
like you're weak. But when you're in the mode of like, "You know this is what I can
do for you. This is how I can help you. This I can teach you." That demonstrates a
lot of confidence. So to help project your voice, think in your mind, "What I
have to share matters. I'm here to help you." And you see your words literally
going out to the people and really going into their mind and then being really
super happy with what you're teaching them. So, great great insight here about
you know, getting yourself prepared in delivering that presentation. Now, another
thing is going to help you is to follow a type of template or an agenda when
giving your presentation. And when I look at templates or agendas, I like to
divide it up into four simple sections. Now, the template I use... I mean, it's got
like 27 steps to it. Well, I'm not going to go through all 27 steps right now.
They'll just take way too long. But it's very detailed. Clear from the
beginning clear to the end of the presentation. Now here, I broke it down
into for simple areas of a presentation. Of course the intro, you
know, that's how you start and welcome and introduce your topic. And then you
got your content, you know, of what you're sharing, what you're teaching. And then
you have a moment where you motivate. I just make sure I spelled that right.
Where you're motivating the people to get them to really believe that the
contents going to really help them. then the last part. Asking them to take some
action. Now of all four of these, where do you think people lack the most or they
they skip the step? You want to know where they skip the step the most? It's at
the end, to ask them to take action. It's cool that you taught them thing, it's
cool you motivated them but this one gets missed and I'm going to work my way
through these and show you some examples of each of these. But don't ever forget
the ending. It's all about them taking new action in their life, right? Now, in
the intro, something that's really great to start out with the intro is a story
that literally opens up the topic or opens up the discussion that's going to
happen. You can start out with a story or you can literally just stand up and
start out by introducing yourself, the topic, thinking those people who helped
put the event together. So, I've got two ways. One, open with the story or open up
with the general information of introducing myself and the topic. But to
have two different options there of a storyline or the you know, covering all
the steps of the introduction. That's been helpful for me because that way it
gives me a little bit of a variety when I'm giving my presentations. Now, when I
get into the content, I want to make sure that I'm covering everything about the
content. And so I have these questions in my mind
that I know that the audience has in their mind. They want to know why this is
important. They want to know what is it that I'm teaching them. Then they want to
know how it works or how to use it. And then they want to know when should I use
this? Where should I use this? And then the last thing is
who is this going to benefit? So, that's literally my list of questions. It's why,
the what, the how, the when, the where and the who. And why you're putting your
content together, write those questions down and and ask yourself if you're
answering all those questions. And most presenters don't. They totally skip out
on like more than half of those. They only cover like two or three of those.
But to be a great presenter, cover the why, the what, the how, the when, the where
and the who. Boy, if you do that, that is a very complete package of content. Now,
when it comes time to motivate, this is where you get to literally paint the
vision in this person's mind and this audience's mind, of how this content is
going to change their life. But the audience usually struggles with seeing
how this is going to play out in their life. And so, this is where you get to be
the one to tell them. You know to say things like, you know, "Now that you've
learned these things here today. Let's imagine for a moment what this is going
to do for you." And then you lay out the scenarios. And so, for me, in the
motivating part, I've got to lay out a scenario for the man in the room, for the
woman in the room, the business owner in the room, the parents in the room. But I
tell these short scenarios of how this information could be used in their life
and the outcome that can come from it. Now, I tell them, I go, "Now, I don't know
how much you're going to apply this. But these are some possibilities that can
happen for you." So, to help motivate them, create the story in their mind by
sharing scenarios with them. And helping them see the possible outcomes. That is a
juicy piece when it comes to giving a presentation. And you will rarely find
somebody who can really deliver this. Because most people don't know it's
important. Content does not change people's lives.
It's how you paint the scenarios for them, show them the possible outcomes and then
point to them... Point them in the direction of what action steps to take.
So, now that you've given them the possible outcomes with that motivating
kind of sound in your voice and ,you know, and tell them the stories for them. Now,
they're in their mind wandering. The audience is wondering in their mind,
"Well, what do i do first?" So, you answer that question for them. Because every
person who's learning something, new they get dazzled by all the content but they
still come down to "Well, what do i do first?" And if your audience does not know
what the first step is, then there's not really any reason to take any more steps
after that. And so, I really believe that us as presenters, we're going to motivate
them by giving them the first step that will be a win within 24 hours. So, at the
end, when it's time to give action steps, I think to myself, "What could they do in
the next 24 hours that they could do? And then they'll feel really good about
it? And they'll feel like they made progress?" Because if they can take and
take that action step and have progress, well now, they're more motivated to take
the next step and the next one and the next one and the next one. But I'm in
charge of giving the instructions to the audience, "What is the next step to take?"
And after the 5,000 presentations that I've done, each time I do this, I will
have audience members who will walk up to me, who will just thanked me and
thanked me and thanked me. And they'll say "Gosh, I was sitting here wondering,
what is it I need to do next. And you told me exactly what to do, Kirk. Thank
you. This is really going to help me." Because people are looking for the information,
they're looking for the motivation and now they just need to know what do I do
first. So, you give it to them. So to me, this is a great, great way to organize a
presentation. But remember, you know, you can have the template. But if you don't
address these that I covered first, you could get up there and be stale and
boring, right? it's like, "Who's going to watch this person?
They have no personality, they don't even look at us, they don't look confident,
they look like they're scared or weak." So, remember that this matters as much as
putting together your content. Because if you don't have a great delivery system
of you as a person, then you're going to be boring. You don't want to lose their
attention, right? Because what you have is important. The information you have that
is important. And what you can... What that information can do for people is really
important. So, this is what I want you to do, I think it'd be super important for
you to practice one or two or three of these here within the next 24 hours. And
the one I want you to practice is how you connect to people. You as a presenter,
practice must happen every day. Now, I'm not talking about doing your
presentation every day. But your ability to give good eye contact to people, when
you're out at stores or you're with family or wherever you're at, you
practice good eye contact. Practice smiling. Really, the muscles on the side
of your face, when you start smiling a lot, it's like you're getting like, you're
working the muscles right here, you might have to get a massage for your face.
Because your muscles are so sore. But eye contact, smiling at people and imagining,
literally imagining what you say going in the ears of the people, going into
their mind and into their heart. If you start practicing that today with eye
contact and smiling. Just those... Let's just go with those two things. Two simple
things. Eye contact and smiling, you're going to build your confidence as a
presenter. Then whatever content you teach is going to come across great. But a
presenter who doesn't smile and does not have good eye contact,
are they really enjoying what they do? Do they really know what they're doing? So
that's a great place for you to start. Eye contact and
smiling. And then just nail that presentation. Just nail the presentation.
And have a blast presenting. Because I think teaching is an absolute joy. What a
privilege, what an honor to share something that you know and that you
love with other people. Okay, remember practice means smiling at the people,
great eye contact. Because you are going to change a lot of people's lives. Hey, I
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