Powerful Presenting For Leaders

Lack of confidence is a huge issue for leaders when presenting. But an improvement in confidence is not just internal, it can also be external as others can already see how amazing you are before you even realise it. In this episode, David explains how it is important to let others tell you how good you really are.

Because he is a world class memoriser, all of David's speaking clients expect him to push them to memorise their talks. Without doubt, it can have a huge impact on the audience and dramatically improve your ability to really connect with your audiences. But at the same time, he really does understand how hard it is. In this episode, he goes through the best ways to do it should you wish to have a go.

This episode is dead simple. David explains how you must apply best presentation skills practice to everything from appraisals to huge keynote speeches. That's it.

It goes against our entire nature to have people not liking us. It is bloody awful but thankfully, most of the time we can avoid these people. Not so with speaking. When we present, there is one indisputable fact. We cannot please all the people all the time. Some audience members will not like us, our message or both. In this episode, David uses an example of someone who sent him a vitriotic e-mail in response to something he felt very passionate about. He also shares how to manage difficult

As we move through 2019, New Year resolutions will quickly turn to dust. So it is with presentation skills. Leaders want to improve their presenting but end up doing the same thing. As a speaker coach, this eternal problem causes David huge frustration. Is it because leaders don't have the how or because they don't have a big enough why? Or is it because they are just too weak to change? In this opening episode, David gets stuck into this contentious issue and gives some hope.