Interview with a New Speaker... Denise Ferguson

A new approach for this episode. I speak with Denise about her ideas to be a speaker and how she feels running a seminar may help her business. This episode is ideal for anyone who may be considering starting public speaking to help their business.

Confidence. You have it... or you don’t... and one thing most new speakers lack is confidence in their presentation skills. In this episode Graham talks about confidence and gives you a powerful process to help build your own confidence.

If you are younger, older, dressed differently, have an alternative viewpoint or in any way “challenge” your audience (all of which is fine, by the way) you may need to consider your credibility for your audience. A simple way is to have a “credibility pitch” to use when you need it. This episode tells you the how and why of how to make the pitch.

Episode 30 !!! Many will avoid this episode of Be A Better Speaker because Graham David is talking about rehearsing.... and most presenters do NOT like to rehearse! But, if you want to improve you have to start videoing your efforts and watching with a critical eye. In this episode Graham tells you some key areas to look out for.

Too many “wannabe” speakers record average and worse videos to advertise their self belief that they are professional speakers. Start making better videos and putting your name out to people who may want to hire you.

Many people would rather follow a poor speaker, than a great one, reasoning that they won’t look so bad in comparison. This episode will help you whether you follow good, bad or indifferent speakers and teach you a simple way to maximise your starting from their energy.

Most new speakers start with what they want to say and then start messing about with content and with their PowerPoint slides. Expert Speaker Graham David suggests you start instead with “Why” are you presenting? This episode will ask you to consider events you have coming up to make the best use of your time.

Many people like the idea of being a better presenter, but don’t want to stand out! The fear of colleagues giving us their views on our presentation often holds us back from presenting how we want to.

If you have seen conference speeches that seem to have endless amounts of ideas you probably also noticed that you couldn’t recall much of the detail after. This episode will help you to understand why you need to focus on one single priority and build both your speech and ideally the entire conference out of that single idea.

How to stop is simple right? Just stop speaking?? Well.. not quite. Too many speakers have not planned how they will finish their “big speech” which is why you see speakers sabotage their own efforts and are unsure who follows them, whether they should take questions and whether to bow or not! This episode offers a powerfully simple three part process you can replicate for your very next presentation.