Presentation Training Skills

Presentation Training

Presentation Training is provided across the United States and Canada. Participants have three options to attend and participate in our presentation training. Presentations are delivered via public open enrollment courses in all major metropolitan areas and are also available to be delivered on-site via private courses. The 3rd option is to attend Online Webinar Presentations Skills Workshops. Our face to face Presentation Training can be provided as off-the-shelf sessions, ready to be delivered to a diverse audience or can be customized to provide a tailored and personalized presentation training approach based on client needs. All presentations courses are limited to a maximum of twelve participants so as to increase presentation course effectiveness and provide the individual level of face to face or online coaching and interaction that is associated with the Presentations Training Skills Center.

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What You Need to Do in Your Presentation Workshops That You Probably Don't Do

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Do you know the #1 thing most novice speakers never think to do when delivering a presentation? It never crosses their mind and yet it is the one thing they are in desperate need of throughout their talk. And, once they lose it, they are in a constant race to catch up on it.

No, I am not talking about your train of thought, your words, your ideas, your speed or any other technique to help in your delivery. I am talking about what you need to take in – physically – in order to support your spoken words in a presentation. It is called air. More to the point, it deals with breathing, something we never think to do and yet, when it comes to our air supply, it is something we never have enough of!

Playing ‘cat and mouse’ with your air supply is most definitely one of the first steps in exacerbating your nervousness. Your lack of air means that you are gasping for breath which places your body in a stage of panic. Thus, the less air your body has, the greater the increase in your level of nervousness. Taking in huge amounts of air to fill the void, however, is not the answer. Learning how to supplement your air supply is.

When standing at the lectern to deliver a presentation, we are under the mistaken belief that we are not allowed to breathe until we come to some form of punctuation. That is wrong. In normal conversation, do you ever wait until you come to the end of your sentence to take a breath? For most people, the answer is no. We interrupt our sentences continually to breathe. My question to you is, if you supplement your air supply during normal conversation, why not do the exact same thing during your speech or presentation?

In the sentence below, try reading it and taking a breath after the word possibly. Now try it again and breathe after the word five. The next time, take a breath after the word I.

I couldn’t possibly run five miles.

Admittedly, if you speak in a monotone, breathing after any of those words doesn’t work; however, if you speak with expression – color, life, emotion – it will sound natural. [If you found this little exercise difficult, you might want to consider working on being more colorful in your presentation delivery.]

Next time you are planning to give a speech or presentation, try breathing before you run out of air. You will be surprised at how much easier your delivery will be.

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