CONQUER Insecurities for a Powerful and Impactful Presentation

26 Nov 2023 · 1 min

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Excerpt from a TJ Walker YouTube coaching video (Nov 26, 2023) advising presenters to conquer insecurities. The speaker describes common insecurity-driven behaviors—overloading slides with data, trying to include everything, fear of appearing lazy, reading speeches or bullet points verbatim—and explains that these behaviors prevent conversational, engaging presentations. Conquering these insecurities can elevate a presentation from merely okay to great.

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It's when you and others say, gosh, I want these people to think I'm smart. Let me put all these data points in. Let me build all these slides. It's, gosh, I don't want to leave anything out. Someone could accuse me of not being hard working enough. Let me put more in and more in and more in. And oh, wow, I might forget something. So let me play it safe and read the speech word for word, or read bullet points. All of those things destroy your ability to actually have a conversation with people. If you conquer these insecurities, your presentation can go from okay to actually great. And again.