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TJ Walker advises presenters to treat formal presentations like one-on-one conversations by anticipating common audience questions and answering them, which helps reduce nervousness and creates a conversational flow even for large audiences.
TJ Walker advises presenters to treat formal presentations like one-on-one conversations by anticipating common audience questions and answering them, which helps reduce nervousness and creates a conversational flow even for large audiences.
What do you do if you feel really good about having a conversation with one client, customer, colleague? It's flowing, everything's nice. You're connecting with someone. But now you have to stand up to give a formal presentation and you lose all that. You feel nervous. You feel uncomfortable. Here's what you need to do. Stop giving formal presentations or stop telling yourself that. Instead, do the exact same thing you do in a one on one conversation. Think of common questions. This audience, whether they're 300 or 3,000, would ask you if they could sit down one on one. Then just answer the questions. Make your speech, your presentation like a conversation. Everyone.
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