Your Simple Answer to Common Presentation Concerns

For the past 10 years EffectiveCommunication.com.au (EC) Specialist Trainers are commonly asked the answer(s) to the following business presentation concerns:
 
“How do I overcome nervousness, lack of knowledge, unexpected questions, PowerPoint challenges, sentence structure etc.”

These are challenges people and discuss with both our Asia Pacific & Americas offices. In other words, these are internation (or human) concerns.

When you recognise the heart of these concerns about why presenting is so challenging, then the following answer makes sense.

As a business communication & presentation specialist, EC believes one of the most common challenges people face is that they prepare for a speech instead of a presentation. 
 
Speeches are scripted, rehearsed and performed. Presentations are simply to float ‘Key’ ideas based on viable intellectual + emotional evidence in order to stimulate and facilitate a two way discussion with any given audience

You obviously need to plan well, but all business presentations need to be delivered in a flexible, spontaneous, conversational way.

So the challenge EC sees most is that people know how to prepare for a speech, but they don't know how to prepare for a presentation. This leads to anxiety, nervousness, analysis paralysis and boring, stiff, un-engaging and unsuccessful presentations.

Ensure your team does not prepare to give speeches rather than simple two way presentation

All the best!