03/01/2024
I get asked often how I come up with presentations. So, I want to share these key strategies about building and presenting a Keynote that I use and will help you 🎥.
I am proud to be a sought after Keynote Speaker, and it’s truly a joy impacting not just the audience as a whole, but that one person who finds me afterwards to share their Xperience and takeaways! 😃
Over the last month I’m fortunate to have been on over 10 stages, from Alaska, Vegas, Sacramento, and Virtuals across the map from companies and teams in Mortgage, Real Eatate, and the Government 😎.
Here you go:
✅ Think of your presentation as a story, not information. Humans relate to narrative not data. If it is data driven, what stories and insights does the data tell you- that’s what your audience will remember.
✅ Creating the presentation can be difficult, so start with an outline of your intended key points, stories, and outcomes you want to make. Brain dump and then work to organize, add, and eliminate. Your eventual slides and details will pull your “key” points together.
✅ If using slides, these are canvases to paint a picture while you speak to the details. Your audience should “see it, not read it”.
✅ “Key”note, like one note on the piano should have a point, theme, or “moral to the story” that binds everything together. What is that key…note.
✅ Nervous to present? That’s natural. I am way more “human” than scripted now than before, and so are others. Just like your social media, people prefer you, not your script. However, what nobody sees are the hours of practice, practice, and practice.
✅ When presenting, speak to individuals in the audience, not the audience as a whole. Make eye contact. Make a connection. Smile and they will smile back.
✅ 18 minutes is about as much attention our brains can devote without drift. This means a few things: TED talk style is impactful, especially for sales rally’s. If longer format presentations, add stories and anecdotes throughout to pull back attention. Expect some audience drift, don’t let that sway you. Use the inflections, speed, tone, and volume of your voice when making points to vary the sound patterns.
The art of presenting goes way beyond a PowerPoint…it leverages you, your personal brand, creates the “one to many” opportunities, and more.
DM or comment if I can help you further with any of this.
And if you’re interested in one of my keynotes for your team, company, or event- let me know and I can share further details.
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