Did you know that the biggest fear we have as human beings is public speaking?

Yet so many of us have to do this as part of our job, whether it be presenting to our colleagues in a formal capacity, presenting ideas in a team meeting or standing up and talking in front of large audiences.

In fact, whilst for some of us it is a fundamental part of our job, we dread it every time we have to do it and we even lose sleep over it. 

Here are the 3 common errors people make when presenting

1. They allow their mind and nerves to take over
2. They feel the need to tell the audience everything they know on the subject matter and end up with a lot of detail having little impact
3. Poor body language is displayed, such as lack of eye contact and poor posture. Learn body language training to make your presentation more effective.

There is good news for us.....

Public speaking is a learnt fear which means you weren’t born with it; you have learnt how to fear it. So that means you can get rid of that fear and even learn how to look forward to it. 

Here at Gravity we believe there are 3 things that you need to get right to become a great presenter

1. Your mind-set-the way you think and feel about presenting
2. What you say-the structure and content of your presentation
3. Delivery-the way you use your body language and voice

Your mind-set- we are very good at setting up patterns in our brain which happen so quickly that we don’t even realise we have done it.

For example the physical reactions we feel when we are nervous about presenting don’t just happen automatically. Every individual has a thought process they associate with presenting.

This leads to a set of feelings (either negative or positive), which in turn leads to our behaviour. If you change the way you think, you can change the reaction you have to presenting.  

What you say-we have about 90 seconds to grab the attention of our audience so we need to do this at the start of our presentation.

Once we have their attention we need to be able to keep it.  

We therefore need to make it as easy as possible for our audience to follow what we are saying. Effectively, we need to navigate them through our presentation. 

Delivery-body language accounts for 55% of a communication and tone of voice 38%.

Therefore no matter what we say, if we get our body language wrong we are at risk of losing our audience’s attention and respect.

Poor posture, minimum hand gestures, feet positioned incorrectly and lack of eye contact are all common errors made by presenters. It just takes one of these to lose your impact -so these things have to be right. 

Gravity’s “How to be a Great Presenter Workshop” will address all 3 of these areas.

We will help you to break through your fears, we will show you how to structure your presentation and what to put in it to make it memorable, and we will teach you how to use your body language and tone of voice to get the greatest impact possible.

 

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