Confessions of a Public Speaker

Webinar:  Confessions of a Public Speaker    Book ISBN:
Date: This event took place live on December 02 2009
Presented by: Scott Berkun  His blog: www.scottberkun.com/blog

Feels he is not a natural born speaker, it is just he does it a lot because of his books.
Practice.

• Afraid of the crowd - valium is a bad idea.....  Amygdala in the brain controls the reactions of fear.    
• Eliminate issues under your control by showing up early and checking things
• Arrive early and sit in back, and see how the audience will see you
• Don't arrive 10 minutes before the presentation and then start working on your slides.
• Exercise and get all the energy out so the adrenaline is released
• Know your subject
• Practice with your remote
• Don't talk to your slides, it shows you aren't sure of yourself
• Practice slides and material until it's good
• People generally can only pay attention for approximately 5-10 minutes on any one subject.
• People are likely to pay longer attention to something they are interested in.
• Chunk it.   It isn't by the number of slides, it is about the time needed to talk about the item
• Can make anything boring by:
• Long-winded
• too much detail
• not realizing the important part of the story
• assuming the part the speaker finds interesting is the part the audience finds interesting.
• finding the subject you are talking about boring
• not make sure your angle is interesting to your audience 
• Smart people disease
• using words that others don't understand, hoping to end the argument that way (TKO)
• complex language - defensive way to teach/lead
• takes effort to make points clear and concise
• afraid to allow questions in case they don't know the answer
• Pushes people away and
• Find a rhythm so people can follow
• and my favorite "the slides serve what you are saying