CHAPTER 7Projecting the Real You: Public Speaking
DALTON COMPLETES ANOTHER visit to the Bay Area to see Kelli and her team and discuss presentation skills and leading practices on how to deliver a compelling message.
PEOPLE-CENTRIC SKILLS IN THIS CHAPTER
- Leading practices in presentation skills and building effective presentation materials
- How to win over an audience quickly
- Ending a presentation effectively and other suggestions to implement immediately to improve presentations
- Reading body language
KEY WORDS
- Presentations
- Public Speaking
- Body Movement
- Voice Inflection
- Confidence
The statistics on fear of public speaking are vastly exaggerated, but glossophobia is very real. Glossophobia, the formal name for public speaking fear, occurs when a person is performing or about to perform a speech or give a presentation in front of other people.1 Approximately a quarter of adults report experiencing it.2 Dalton always felt very natural in front of an audience, even though he never took a course or read a book on it. He was once like every other corporate America employee: graduate from college, go to work for a large company, progress, make money, retire. But something life-changing happened along the way.
Preparing for this course with a long morning workout, Dalton reminisced about key moments in his professional evolution. Twelve years ago, he was a vice president at Sham Pop, a popular drink company that is part of a much larger portfolio. SP, as everyone called it, ...
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