BY
FANNIE M. SMITH
40 TH AMBTS
AUGUST 6-7, 2009
GRAND RAPIDS, MI
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OBJECTIVES
• Enhance your ability to communicate with confidence
• Share tips and secrets for powering up your presentations
• Share and demonstrate energizing icebreakers
• Provide techniques to use in becoming a polished speaker
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What is communication?
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What is the heart of Communication?
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• Listening requires mental and physical activity
• We spend 80 percent of each day listening
• Listening is our most frequent used communication skill
• Research shows that 40 percent of your professional salary is earned by listening.
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• Listening Exercise
• The Cash Register Story
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Organize using the “Three Tell ‘Ems”
• The Opening Tell ‘Em What You’re Gonna’
Tell ‘Em
• The Body Tell ‘Em
• The Closing Tell ‘Em What You’ve Told ‘Em
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• First (Main idea #1)
• Secondly (Main idea #2)
• Thirdly (Main idea #3)
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Tell Them Why They Should Care (WII-FM)
• What’s
• In
• It
• For
• Me
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Speak on Purpose
• Reveal the four critical secrets to . . .”
• “Prove to you . . .”
• “Show you the three advantages of . . .”
• “Introduce you to . . .”
• “Give you a guided tour of . . .”
• “Share with you three proven strategies for . . .”
• “Provide you the four key ingredients for . . .”
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Use Their Names
• Examples
• Do Not Embarrass Anyone
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Increase the “You Factor”
• “ You” is one of the top five selling words
• Listener’s ears perk up with “You or
Your”
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It’s Not What You Say, It’s How You Say It!
• _______per cent of your message comes from tone, inflection and facial expressions
• _______per cent of your message comes from your actual words account
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Make Your Point As Simple as Pie
1.
State your point.
- “My first point is . . .”
2 . Illustrate your point.
- “For example . . .”
- “Allow me to demonstrate . . .”,
- “ Let me share a story with you . . .”
- “Here’s a picture . . .”
3 . Emphasize the importance to the listeners.
- “Here’s how this impacts . . . “
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Ice Breakers and Energizers
• Used to Introduce a Meeting
• Energizers used at different points of an event
• Sample Ice Breakers/Energizers
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End With A Bang Not a Whimper
• Recommendation
• Challenge
• Prediction
• A Simple Parting Thought or Quote
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The Presenter’s Compass
• Checkpoint 1. Make Reservations
• Checkpoint 2. Check Your Itinerary
• Checkpoint 3. Stand and Deliver
• Checkpoint 4. Watch out for Turbulence
• Checkpoint 5. Prepare for Landing
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Six Secrets to Spice Things Up and Not
Be Boring
• Tip #1 – Stories
• Tip #2 – Quotations
• Tip #3 – Jokes
• Tip #4 – Startling facts
• Tip #5 - Rhetorical questions
• Tip #6 - Definitions
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Six Tricks to Eliminate Ums, Ahs, and You
Know from Your Presentation
• Practice your presentations out loud
• Record your practice presentation and real presentation
• Try to catch the start of “um and “ah
• Keep a glass or water handy
• Increase your eye contact
• Get a “presentation buddy”
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Seven Proven Ways To Polish Your Delivery
• Tip #1 – Dress for Success
• Tip #2 - Smile
• Tip #3 – Stand Proudly
• Tip#4 – Gesture
• Tip #5 – Make Eye Contact
• Tip #6 – Put Some Fire In Your Voice
• Tip #7 – Speak with E-N-T-H-U-S-I-A- M!
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Ten Sure-Fire Ways to Eliminate
Presentation Anxiety
• Tip #1 – It’s Good To Be Nervous
• Tip #2 – Don’t’ Try To Be Perfect
• Tip #3 – Visualize Your Success
• Tip #4 – Arrive At Least An Hour Early
• Tip #5 – Don’t Tell Others That You Are
Nervous
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Ten Sure-Fire Ways To Eliminate
Presentation Anxiety cont’d
• Tip #6 Avoid Caffeinated and Alcoholic
Drinks
• Tip #7 Breathe
• Tip #8 Pause and Sip
• Tip #9 Make Eye Contact
• Tip #10 Practice, Practice, Practice
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References
• Speaking Out, Cynthia Small
• Ice Breakers and Teambuilding Exercises by Gregory Smith www.ChartCourse.com
• Death by PowerPoint by David
23Greenberg
• 36 Teambuilding Games by David
Greenberg
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