How to Present to Absolutely Anyone by Mark Rhodes

Author:Mark Rhodes
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780857087744
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2018-11-28T00:00:00+00:00

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It was all just too much for me. I couldn't remember 101 things. I couldn't remember three things to do when I got up to do a talk, especially in the early days when I was very nervous.

Then came the eureka moment when I just said to myself, ‘You know what? I'm going to be myself’. And that is the biggest secret to my success in speaking.

My experience is that audiences love it when they feel presenters are being themselves. Audience members often come up and say, ‘Mark, I love that you're the same person on stage as the person we speak to before you talk, and the person we speak to after the talk. It's refreshing, you're not lecturing to us, you're almost having a chat and a conversation with us’.

You see, here's the thing about presenting or talking about something. If something goes wrong in your life, say you are driving and your car breaks down and you have to call the rescue service. Then, they don't turn up, you have to call again, then eventually they come. They then inform you they sent the wrong truck and then you have to wait for the right truck to come. Then when finally they are towing you home, something else goes wrong and their recovery truck breaks down! And later, when you go and relay those events and all that happened to your family and friends, you become the world's best storyteller. You've just got to take that version of you, the brilliant storyteller talking about something that happened, to the front of the room. That's the person or the speaker right there. Not some image you may have in your mind of some slick professional speaker. People generally don't want the slick polished presenter. Pretty much outside of politics the slick presentations are not what people usually want. They want someone they can relate to, someone who's going to teach them something, share things with them, someone they connect with.

If you were to look on my website, you'd see that I've spoken for huge companies and I've spoken for small companies. I've even been trusted and asked to speak in Hong Kong to 800 four‐ to eleven‐year‐olds. Why? Because of the way I do my presentations. Because it's me and because it's just my friendly attitude of ‘Hey guys, I've got some interesting things to share with you that I know are going to be of immense value to you’. Rather than coming from a very staid, polished presentation stance that can come across as a lecture.

Obviously there are some environments, audiences or topics where a very professional approach is needed, but these are few and far between. I have seen people bring their own personality and the real them to pretty much every type of presentation out there.

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