Six things to avoid doing when speaking to a group

The journey of become a great involves the ability to being able to share you expertise on a topic and also handle different parts of act before and after you share. 

Communication is a flow of conversation your have with the organizer before the event the participants during the event and then post event feedback from both organizer and participants

Organizer

It is important to have communication with the organizer. They have hold the key to you have a successful event. 

Details for how many people will be attending?  Technology needs from do you need to bring your own laptop, projector, screen?  If they supply that is it compatible with your equipment

Can you offer special deals during your presentation? Can you sell at the back of the room?

What has the audience bought in the past?

Prepare

 

The ability to engage with your audience rest on you being prepared with your topic, knowing your time limit and working toward creating ongoing engagement all they until your close.

Topic

Having a relevant topic to share, this goes back to communication with the organizer as mentioned earlier. The may give you suggestions of topics that I have been share in the past, you don’t want to share the same topic as other speakers. Creating engagement is about understanding the needs and wants of the audience and the organizer holds the key to that!

Audience

Being able to engage and work with the audience is a very important part of your talk. This where your skills and strengths come in as being an engaging, energetic and teacher come in to play. Every audience is different and as you continue to grow you speaking profile you will come aware of when you participants are paying attention or when they text on their iPhone!

Technology

Many speakers rely on technology to do their talks from using fancy powerpoint to illustrate their expertise or point, it come with one warning  technology will fail you!  I have seen it to many times and be part of it myself.  You may be prepared for the day but it does happen from powerpoint clicker not working, loosing power to software malfunctioning. In many cases you can fix it and move on. In some case you may have to do it freestyle with no powerpoint!

This come back to being prepared and knowing your topic. As mentioned earlier you should be able to do with your slides. 

Post event

After the event is very import also to communicate with the organizer to get feedback on the talk, collect feedback forms (if they were used) and book the next date to speak!

In the end you these six strategies will have you save time and energy and deliver an impactful and energetic presentation that will yield results.

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Power of Social Mentorship

Earlier this year I began a new journey in speaking for well know social media company based out of Boston. I had started using their services in October 2011 and by January 2012 they had hired me to sell and speak about their social media platform.

It was an exciting opportunity to gain great credibility with them and for my professional brand. I quickly signed the contract on January 25th and had a speaking engagement the next day! That how much I want to speak and get moving.

Regional Director who have admired for speaking style has been my coach , encourage and mentor even prior to this journey.

As I began my speaking in the Toronto area I reported  talk to her every Monday for a few months to share were her how everything was coming along. Had sent here some videos of my early talks and she had given me some written reviews.

As the months passed she had some concerns that I has speaking to small crowds and also groups that may not be great target market for our products. (We had a free offers to try the various social products)

I understood and respected her point of view, but I had to keep speaking and networking to find those key organizers of more influencial groups in Toronto.

As summer ended I had built great momentum and my numbers were beginning to increase and I began to get referrals from various contact I had online and offline.

My regional director began to started saying "Your a Rock Star!"  I didn't know how to respond, I just  said "Thank you and smiled!"

I had done a some corporate speaking engagement outside the Toronto group to couple of women's group and corporate groups and the feedback that we had got was  very positive. 

Head into October and November my schedule begin to fill and had to really keep track on my speaking engagement and referrals that were coming in. I had signed to a local community college to use our email marketing service and the revenue from just that one client was good to start, many more began to come after that. 

Going out networking, asking questions, meeting various types of organizer of events and persistently follow up led to the speaking engagement and joint venture opportunities happen.

I currently communicate via email and voice mail my regional director and she has been instrument in giving me the feedback and encouragement to succeed in become a dynamic speaker and trainer.

Look forward to sharing Power of Mentorship at Motivational Monday on Monday November 26th in Toronto at the Pilot Tavern. Going to be an awesome evening!