From Amateur to Executive: Transform Your Speaking Skills

21 Dec 2023 · 1 min

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TJ Walker (YouTube, Dec 21, 2023) gives concise coaching on presenting like a C-level executive: stop reading slides or bullet points, focus on the audience, present one idea at a time, use stories/case studies to bring points alive, and limit any talk to no more than five main ideas to project confidence and executive presence.

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So what do you do if you're not a C level executive, but you want to sound like a C level executive and you want to look like a C level executive? For starters, get rid of the text. Stop reading your presentations. That is the sign of an insecure amateur. Don't read bullet points off of a PowerPoint screen. Instead, focus on your audience. Talk about one idea at a time, make it come alive with interesting stories, and focus on what's truly most important. You should never give a speech or presentation that tries to cover more than five main ideas. If you do that, and you illustrate each point with interesting examples, case studies, stories, you will project confidence and you will seem like an executive, even if you aren't one yet. And again.