presentations

so you want to be a better presenter?

Are you really yourself when you stand up in front of people?
Or do you wear a mask to hide behind?
Do you feel really tired when you’ve been giving a training or a speech? you are not the only one who feels like this!

Maybe you would like to have more mental capacity or freedom when you are facilitating a group.
Are your presentations humdrum and do you feel ill at ease?

Instead of just doing “presentations”- hiding behind the equipment and drowning them with information - you can choose to have a real and easier connection with the audience. And you and I know both know that they deserve something better. We are here to serve the audience not make them suffer.

standard business presentation practice can stifle excellent communication

How many times have you been bored when you've been in the audience. Powerpoint has its place but its place should be as tool rather than to dominate the process.
Far too many presentations fail because of overloading the audience, lack of connection and lack of simplicity.

information overload perhapsYour connection with the audience should take priority. You are the main feature. So we need to learn how to connect and be the centre of attention with ease. And the rest will follow. Of course you have to do some work on the structure of a presentation but CONNECTION and presence is the key.

Audiences crave a real person to connect with. Not an over-slick presenter
My approach is about stepping away from the norm and to re-examine long-held beliefs that presentations just equal doing a powerpoint.

It can be more poweful. It can be more creative and its got to be more connected.
(Look at what the business gurus are saying in the next column).

Audiences respond well to a conversational style and they feel included rather than delivered to. That means you have to work on being able to be relaxed and being present rather on how many bullett points you should have on each powerpoint slide.

The work of Speaking Circles lets experienced speakers re-examine the fundamentals of being in front of a group.
Our work is to develop presence and connection - where you can be yourself with more capacity, more freedom and more humanity.

So you move from a “performance” to really connecting with the audience, inspiring them while feeling at ease. To move from delivering to an audience to serving the audience. From a notion of trying too hard to be slick and perfect to a real relationship with a real person.

I think Speaking Circles gives you the chance to improve your presence dramatically.
When you see public speaking as a series of one-to-one conversations magic can happen!

So rather than trying to overload you, what I’m trying to do is to encourage you to do less! But to get to that simplicity means sometimes unlearning stuff that gets in the way. The speaking circles approach is a powerful way to simplify. And guess what? When you look after an audience in this way you get whole lot of response.