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Powerful Presenting For Leaders

David Thomas global speaker and executive speaking coach

David Thomas, global speaker and executive speaking coach, shows leaders how to handle their nerves when presenting, really connect with their audience and walk off feeling like a presentation rockstar! https://www.CreatingPresentationRockstars.com

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08:27

#125 Dead ducks don't quack

Powerful Presenting For Leaders ·

2022/03/11

It's always a nervy time testing new material. You don't want to be stuck delivering the same old stuff every time you present but it takes courage and a leap of faith to use brand new material. In this episode, David talks about how dead ducks don't quack (bad material is just bad material and will never come good), how to measure how successful material is from the response of an audience response and most importantly, when to cut and run.

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14:44

#124 Most nervous day EVER as a presentation skills...

Powerful Presenting For Leaders ·

2022/03/04

Coaching commercial clients is fun and inspiring because they walk through the door keen to learn and improve. But teaching kids round the kitchen table is a trial that most parents would rather substitute with tooth removal without anaesthetic. In this episode, David talks about how he recently coached his daughter on presentation skills and how improving yours isn't just about you becoming a presentation rockstar; it's also about the ability to share your new found toolkit with others.

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14:31

#123 Speaking can be as much about validation as...

Powerful Presenting For Leaders ·

2022/02/26

A successful senior manager in a major company spent the day with David yesterday at his house learning presentation skills. Problem was, she was already speaking beautifully for the very narrow type of presenting she does. And will probably do for the remaining 5 years or so in her career. But the problem was only for David. His client walked away with the most important thing she was looking to achieve - validation that she was on the right track. In this episode, David talks about how speaking

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13:02

#122 Variety is the spice of life, especially in...

Powerful Presenting For Leaders ·

2022/01/28

Mel Robbins is a fantastic motivational speaker and David has both listened to her Audible podcast series and an interview with her. She was asked about her presenting style and she said that she fills her talks with analogies to get her message across. In this episode, David explains how analogies are incredibly powerful but also that putting in more variety and using other techniques is the optimum way to help you achieve your true speaking potential.

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13:18

#121 When you get to the top, you need a different...

Powerful Presenting For Leaders ·

2022/01/21

David appeared on the TV show, The Weakest Link, many years ago. He got through to the final three but astonishingly, one of the other two contestants didn't realise that the strategy that would WIN her the money in the final would not be the one that had got her TO the final. In this episode, David recounts the amazing experience and how leaders need to understand that the style of speaking they do when they are on their way TO the top is not the type of presenting they need to do when they GET to

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12:52

#120 Brag like mad and create a halo effect

Powerful Presenting For Leaders ·

2022/01/14

In business, everyone brags about the key elements that make them stand out. In David's case, he is forever going on about appearing on Oprah, having a #1 bestselling book and breaking a Guinness record. But sadly, when leaders speak, their humility means they pass over these crucial points too quickly in their talks. In this episode, David explains how to make your credibility work for you and most importantly, when to tell the audience.

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12:56

#119 Bite off more than you can handle and chew like...

Powerful Presenting For Leaders ·

2022/01/07

David heard the title to this podcast in a newsletter and thought it very apt for his progress through his speaking career. In this episode, he explains why presentation skills progress only happens when we truly push ourselves out of our comfort zone, as cliched as that sounds. David also talks about the difference between who we are and who we are becoming through the concept of the Hegelian dialectic and most importantly, how this applies to leaders when they present.

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27:07

#118 Ten lessons I learned about presenting in 2021

Powerful Presenting For Leaders ·

2021/12/31

In this episode, David goes through the top 10 lessons he has learned about presenting in 2021. This is from the perspective of his own speaking having presented in person and remotely in over 50 countries. And from his perspective as a presentation skills coach having prepared many CEOs for big talks.

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11:36

#117 Grow a backbone and address the elephant in the...

Powerful Presenting For Leaders ·

2021/12/17

As a presentation skills coach for leaders, David gets to work on specific talks with real material and over the years, he has worked on every kind of talk imaginable. He is not easily shocked or surprised. But recently, he got a call from a CEO doing a simple long service awards ceremony and wanted some advice. There was an unusual and devastating twist to the presentation. In this episode, David explains how it is possible to reframe the most difficult of talks but that it is also essential to

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12:55

#116 That horrendous feeling you get when talking to...

Powerful Presenting For Leaders ·

2021/12/13

Last week, David did two very different talks. Both had a really positive outcome but both also had polar opposite starts. The first talk started with a lot of love for David in the room. Welcoming, engaging and fun. The second talk, two days later, started at sub zero. The audience was ice cold. The only difference between the two was the pre-frame. In this episode, David explains how to get your audience off to a flying start with a cracking pre-frame.

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25:41

#115 Always match your message to the audience

Powerful Presenting For Leaders ·

2021/12/03

PLEASE NOTE: This episode talks very briefly about the abuse that David received at the hands of his mother and bizarrely, how it got him a major book deal resulting in a #1 bestselling book. David has just received a batch of his new books from the printers and while he could use them, there is just enough wrong with the printing for him to not be able to do so. In this episode, David explains how you don't have to mis-match your message to the audience by much for it to get totally lost.

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15:00

#114 If there's only one job, you have to be...

Powerful Presenting For Leaders ·

2021/11/19

David recently coached a guy going for a major job interview. The company made various stipulations. David told his client to ignore them and do something different. In this episode, he explains how, in a competitive environment, it is critical to do something different to what everyone else is doing.

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17:20

#113 Pre-presentation is everything

Powerful Presenting For Leaders ·

2021/11/12

You'd think that after 25 years of speaking, David would be drilled in the art of everything speaking, including the pre-presentation preparation, maybe the most important thing of all. In this episode, David explains how he was thought he was being the guest of honour at a ceremony only to be introduced as the speaker and have to produce a 20 min presentation 5 seconds later. If only he had prepared better!

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15:20

#112 A beautiful pillow and marginal gains

Powerful Presenting For Leaders ·

2021/11/05

Marginal gains has been around for many a year now and is de rigeur in sport. But the same can definitely be applied in presentation skills. In this episode, David explains how applying marginal gains to get a different pillow made a massive difference to his speaking.

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14:26

#111 JK Rowling or Jeffrey Archer?

Powerful Presenting For Leaders ·

2021/10/22

JK Rowling used to grab spare minutes while her baby was asleep to write Harry Potter when she was a single Mum. Jeffrey Archer writes from his home in Mallorca from a purpose-built writing room overlooking the Bay of Palma with no distractions. Which is best? Both. In this episode, David explains how to manage the process of writing a presentation whether it is all in one go or piecemeal.

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21:28

#110 Managing interruptions

Powerful Presenting For Leaders ·

2021/10/15

Managing interruptions is where every leader earns their presentation stripes. Being able to handle hecklers (rare but happens), disruptors (less rare), objectors (relatively common) and people interrupting with questions (very common) is difficult. Yet, it is one of the areas that leaders almost never prepare for. In this episode, David shares how he got some weird and wonderful interruptions from students in a recent schools tour.

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21:18

#109 Why are you even here today?

Powerful Presenting For Leaders ·

2021/10/08

When leaders present, they fret over a ton of stuff like their voice projection, whether their slides are formatted properly and the engagement level of the audience. Question is - should they be fretting over this stuff? Answer - yes! But the challenge I have seen with leaders is that in focussing solely on all these elements, they lose sight of the REAL reason they are presenting at all. In this episode, David explains how this was brought home to him recently in a school he was speaking at when a

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14:43

#108 Don't be an informer; become an interpreter

Powerful Presenting For Leaders ·

2021/10/01

Information is cheap as chips. It is a commodity that we value little because of how easy it is to come by. Delivering information makes you look cheap as chips. What is valuable is INTERPRETING information. In this episode, David explains how, as a leader, you should let others deliver information about sales, products, acquisitions, etc. Your job is to float over the top scooping that information up, interpreting it and showing what it MEANS.

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15:54

#107 What is the price you are prepared to pay for...

Powerful Presenting For Leaders ·

2021/09/24

When your words are always the same, they have an equal value and that value is zero. But the question is this - how far are you prepared to go to make your words valuable? David did a talk recently where he pushed the attendees so hard that he 'lost' two of them. In this episode, David goes through why he did it and whether the price he paid was worth it.

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11:21

#106 Perfectionism is a killer

Powerful Presenting For Leaders ·

2021/09/17

David is launching an online business and best practice is to launch fast, fail fast and adapt. But not David. Nope, he has been spending too much time making all his material perfect. In this episode, David explains how and why the best way to quickly improve your speaking is to drop perfect. Get it done, get it delivered, get the feedback and feed that back into v2.0 of your speech.

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