If you want to be a better public speaker, learn from the blunders, mistakes and disasters of other presenters.
Public Speaking Blunders
You will be a more successful public speaker if you avoid these presentation blunders. Most of the time, it's not about delivering a perfect presentation. Instead it's about making less mistakes than your competition.
Presentation Train Wreck: Avoid These Mistakes
Have you ever cringed while watching a speaker and wondered “How is this speaker going to save this train wreck of a presentation?”
Most presenters make some mistakes. All speakers can get better. And then every once in a millennium you witness a presentation that defines awful. If you saw the movie “Apocalypse Now”, just imagine Marlon Brando, watching this presentation and muttering, “The horror, the horror”.
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Bad Opening Lines to Your Speech: 10 Mistakes to Avoid
You had me at hello. Imagine if you could deliver an opening to your presentation that was that effective. You can grab your audience with “hello” lines. But first you need to banish these disaster lines from the opening of your speech. Avoid these opening line mistakes in your presentation.
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Ford CEO Runner Up in 2011 Executive BS Jargon Award
What did he say?
It can be mildly entertaining and incredulously frustrating when business leaders make statements that convey nothing but BS.
Lucy Kellaway writing for the Financial Times announced the executive winners of her annual Jargon Awards.
Honourable mention goes to Alan Mulally, CEO of Ford Motor Co. for what Lucy labels as a purposeful yet content-free statement:
“Going forward, we are focused on aggressively managing short-term challenges and opportunities and we remain committed to delivering our mid-decade plan and serving a growing group of Ford customers.”
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Warning: Trailer Trash Words and Phrases that Destroy Your Credibility
The words that you use tell your audience who you are, where you are from and what is your level of education. Based on those blatant messages, your audience decides on what label to slap on your face.
If your audience perceives that you are “beneath” them in education they tend to be less willing to see you as an expert.
There is nothing wrong with coming from the other side of the tracks. Oprah has pointed out often where she came from. But she also made it clear that she didn’t stay there. She improved her language skills…..
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Your Audience Doesn’t Care About Your Problems
Yet, too many speakers start their presentation with their personal tale of woe.
The speaker started his presentation by telling us that he travelled from the west coast across three time zones and arrived around midnight. He went to the wrong hotel because he didn’t clarify that information before he travelled.
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13 PowerPoint Sins
You've probably suffered through an agonizing PowerPoint presentation. The words "PowerPoint presentation" should not send shudders through your mind and body. Naturally, you don't want to antagonize your audience by committing any of these PowerPoint Sins...
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9 Presentation Sins
...and how you can avoid them
Presenting can be a sin. Presenting can be passable. Or, presenting could be powerful. How do you transform yourself from presentation sinner to powerful presenter? By recognizing the sins, avoiding them and mastering the skills of powerful presenters. Study the nine presentation sins...
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Extroverts make Bad Public Speakers
Extroverts tend to be bad public speakers. They can be trained but they need a lot of help. The biggest obstacle is their attitude. They do not want to be trained. They must first overcome the delusion that they are good. This can be very difficult for extraverts to accept because...
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Bad News Lies
It is one thing to deliver bad news. It is another to lie while delivering it.
They will know that you are lying so they will wonder what else is not true.
When it is time to deliver bad news – deliver it...
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Cliche Hell
Please stop using clichés. It is like vomit - Regurgitated bile. Hell is a place where everyone speaks in clichés. Most of us are already suffering from listening to clichés. Some of us are guilty of spreading them.
It reeks of unoriginality. It is not clever. It is lazy.
Every time you parrot something that we heard before – you diminish yourself. And we tend to stop listening...
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Twitter Presentation Skills Club on Facebook Executive Speech Coach, Business presentation tips from George Torok, the Speech Coach for Executives
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