Have you ever had to present within a moments notice? Maybe it was on a topic that you weren’t prepared to speak on?
When it comes to public speaking these unexpected and unplanned situations happen all the time. You might find this has recently happened to you. Suddenly you hear, “[your name], please take about 15 minutes to share your thoughts on….”
A huge part of a speaker’s success is the ability to create and deliver a clear, concise and powerful presentation, sometimes in a moments notice. Being mediocre or just okay as a speaker isn’t going to help you reach new heights.
Being unprepared for the unexpected presentation can easily and quickly increase your self doubt and fear and ultimately squelch your speaking dreams!
Let’s talk about how you too can start to handle those unexpected STUCK IN A PRESENTATION JAM situations.
# 1 – ENGAGE YOUR AUDIENCE
You can take the pressure and attention off of yourself by asking your audience challenging questions and letting them provide the answers. This effective process not only helps to boost audience engagement, this technique also provides you with ample time to collect your presentation thoughts on your topic.
# 2 – UTILIZE THE POWER OF REAL LIFE EXAMPLES
Real life examples can act as a truly effective speaking tool for a prepared as well as an unprepared speech. Citing interesting real life examples doesn’t require any advance preparation time and in most cases it makes it a lot easier to speak about than basic data and information. Real life examples help you to grab the attention of your audience and brings life to any presentation so it works great in all types of speaking situations.
# 3 – KEEP IT TO YOURSELF
Many inexperienced speakers believe that telling your audience you are nervous or unprepared for a presentation is a good thing. Learn from an expert and never tell the audience that you aren’t prepared or you’re nervous about speaking on the topic. Do you know what happens when you tell them? The audience will focus on the faults in your presentation rather than the positive aspects.
They will start looking for mistakes and may even start to feel sorry for you, so do yourself a favour and avoid this common pitfall.
It takes real guts to go for it in all speaking situations. As a speaker you are constantly changing, evolving and uncovering something new about you and your audiences. You have to be willing to grow. This means sometimes taking a big leap of faith, investing in you and your future.
Average speakers are happy playing small and living in their comfort zones. Extraordinary speakers take the risks necessary to create 6-figures and beyond. They know that they can’t do it on their own. They might try it for a little while and then they quickly realize that getting help is absolutely necessary to have the next level of success they truly desire.
Extraordinary speakers know that becoming truly successful is learning from the best so that they too can be the best.
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