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Presentations Skills Training Seminars are provided across the United States & Canada via public open enrollment seminars in most major metropolitan areas and can also be delivered on-site via private presentation workshops. Our presentation skills training courses can be provided as off-the-shelf presentations seminars, workshops, or classes. The classes are ready to be delivered to a diverse audience or can be customized to provide a tailored presentations and personalized approach based on client needs. All presentations skills classes are limited to a maximum of twelve participants so as to increase seminar effectiveness and provide the individual level of presentations coaching and interaction that is associated with the Presentations Skills Training Workshops Center.

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Presentation Training: Fear Not! Focus on Your Goal, Not Your Presentation

When you're called up on stage to give a presentations speech, do you ever ask yourself why on earth you're doing this? Isn't there an easier way to communicate with groups so that you can avoid this stress?

Well, the truth is, if you want to become a leader or "The Expert" in your field, the answer is no.

Strong oral communication skills are a must. If you're building a "tribe" or community around you and your work, you've got to speak to groups of people. If you start to develop a following, you're going to be invited to speak as a guest at live events. When those opportunities come around, you must never, ever give them up! Someday, you'll also want to be the lead presenter at your own live event. The credibility and connections you'll make through these two speaking activities are unique and invaluable. Nothing replaces the strength of connection and relationship-building at the in person meeting.

So, do you want to be a leader in your area? If you answered "yes" this time, then keep reading. We're going to discuss a powerful way to diminish your fear around public speaking:

Create the right kinds of goals for your presentations speech and keep your focus on them.

1) Go back to the basics. Why on earth did you go into this line of work? Why did you start a business? What's your organization's mission statement? Do you believe in it? Do you believe in your ability to achieve it? The answers to the last two questions need to be a "yes." If they're not, then rework your mission statement until it becomes a "yes" for you.

Here's a catch: the mission statement needs to be focused around the service delivered to others. You won't be able to move your focus from your fear around public speaking. The secret to diminishing fear is to make it smaller relative to other motivations. If you have extreme clarity around why you're there and what you want to deliver for your audience that will be at the top of your mind. Fear will take a less important position in your thoughts. After all, how do commanders lead their troops into battle?

Speaking primarily for the purpose of marketing your business and personal financial gain will also impact the connection with your audience. To them, you'll just be there to get them to part with their money. This will cause a huge disconnect. We've all heard one too many brilliant sales pitches. People won't buy now unless they experience the value of working with you first.

2) Be sure that the topic of your presentations speech is aligned with your mission statement. Review the objectives of your presentations speech carefully to ensure that this is the case. If not, you could derail and lose focus during your delivery.

3) Do a quick check. Can you name two ways that your presentations speech will specifically serve your audience within 10 seconds? If you're can, great. Remind yourself of them as you're being repeatedly. If you can't, then go back to your objectives in the previous step and simplify them further. In other words, what are two takeaways from your presentations speech that will be of great benefit to your audience?

4) Don't fear an imperfect delivery. For example, a recent coaching client of mine was running in a small, local election, and she was very nervous about delivering her campaign presentations speech. At the start of our coaching together, every time she made a small grammatical error while practicing her presentations speech, she'd get completely flustered. Instead, we threw out her pre-written word-for-word presentations speech and focused on her mission. Why was she running her office? What did she intend to achieve when she got there? By returning the focus to her original vision for her community and motivations for running, she was able to deliver a presentations speech that won her the election. She was nowhere close to being as polished as a professional paid public speaker. Yet, she connected with her purpose and her audience, and it worked.

Now don't take that as an excuse not to practice your presentations speech! Remember, if your presentations speech delivery has too many mistakes, your audience's focus will focus on those instead of your message.

How will your next presentations speech serve your audience? How does it align with your mission? Remember to focus on that instead of fear.

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