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In your approach you have won the prospect’s interest. You have put them in the mental position where they are ready to purchase if you prove up your claims. And you can prove up these claims because you made them, knowing in advance that they were merely a preface to showing your proposition.

What is the mission of your presentation?

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Do You Feel Anxiety When Speaking?

An article by Andrew Rondeau that might just come in handy the next time you are called upon to represent your call center by speaking at a function or seminar. Good luck!

There are hundreds and hundreds of articles around the Internet helping you to overcome the fear of Public Speaking. You may have seen some.

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Powerpoint Presentation Tips: Give Your Audience A Break!

Call Center Cafe and Call Center Best Practices bring you this article on presentation tips by that was written by Kelvin Lee. He has many suggestions that you can use during your next presentation.
Silence-phobia
Are you is highly susceptible to stage fright due to your limited experience in public speaking?

Well, you are likely to have realized that when you get nervous while presenting in front of a crowd, this would induce you to go on and on with your presentation without inserting pauses in between. This may be because you have a fear of silence.

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What Everybody Should Know To Be An Effective Public Speaker

Many managers (call center and others) will say that they would rather have a root canal than speak in front of a conference. Here are a few tips for you to use if and when it is your turn to take the podium.

Public speaking is not easy. It is a challenge, both an art and a science and to deliver a good speech it has to be effective and make an impact on your audience. These are the steps which you need to take to ensure you make this impact.

Public speaking is not easy. It is a challenge, both an art and a science and to deliver a good speech it has to be effective and make an impact on your audience.

These are the steps which you need to take to ensure you make this impact:

You need to be prepared

You need to understand fully what you are talking about. Research and familiarise yourself with the topic and make sure you are presenting only one main idea, so that your audience are not sidetracked when listening to you and therefore forget what you are presenting. A good way to check your take on the topic, is to see if you would feel confident in answering any questions that you might get asked after your talk.

Make sure your speech is organised into a logical sequence. This will make it easier for your audience to follow and understand you, therefore keeping them interested. They will also find it easier to remember. If you also back your speech up with solid evidence it will help to add credibility to your talk.

The two most important parts of a speech to help captivate your audience are the introduction and conclusion. The introduction is the first contact the audience will have with you and needs to be strong and tempt them to want to listen. The conclusion of the speech will sum up your talk and be the last part that the audience hear. This needs to remind them that you were a great speaker and one that they would recommend to others and come to see again themselves. Therefore it is a good idea to write down on paper, your opening and closing words. It is also good to add real life stories as much as possible into the speech, as they go down well too with the audience.

Once you have your speech outlined and your notes written out, you need to practice your speech, to make sure you are happy with the content, the flow of the words and check whether the timing is correct, ie. fits in the timescale allotted to you. Also, the more you practice, the more confident you will feel when you deliver. To make sure you don’t just read from your notes when you present, outline the main points on you sheet that you will need to prompt you. That way you can scan the whole room whilst you present your speech, involving your whole audience whilst speaking loudly and clearly.

You should now be ready to go out a give the speech the audience want to hear and you can be proud of!

Andrew Rondeau transformed himself from a $4 an-hour petrol-pump attendant to a highly successful Senior Manager earning $500k every year.

Discover how you can remove your fear and reduce your stress of being a new manager by receiving Andrew’s free Management e-Course and report: http://www.greatmanagement.org/