Get People to Say Yes Before You Finish Speaking
To improve your presentation skills, do you think you need better slides and a way to boost your charisma?
Short answer: You don’t.
Your slides are not the problem. Your delivery is not the problem.
Most of us, and certainly myself at one point, fail to see the bigger problem that has nothing to do neither your slides, nor your opening or body language.
The bigger problem is, not asking a critical question before working on the presentation content:
“What should my audience see or believe by the end of my presentation, so that they can take a decision?”
But take a decision on what? On whatever the whole meeting is about.
- Do you want a bigger budget for your department next quarter?
- Do you want them to see you as the ideal candidate for the upcoming promotion?
- Do you want them to consider keeping you in mind for an investment opportunity in your startup?
Whatever it is that you want to achieve with your presentation, it will need your audience to take a decision. And your job, as the presenter, is to faciliate that. To make it easier for them.
The answer(s) you’ll find to that question will determine every single aspect of your presentation. From the choice of words and the way your slides will look, to the way you will communicate through your body language when you’re addressing your audience.
That question isn’t something you answer once. It’s something you ask before every presentation that matters. Once you know the answer, the rest gets easier — slides, delivery, all of it follows.
Finding that answer alone is not easy.
That’s exactly what I help with.
Let’s find your one question.
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