Speaking Tips

Hi. Iím Antonio Centeno, the founder of Real Men Real Style. Today, weíre going to be

talking about 5 tips that you can use to deliver an awesome presentation. Okay, if you havenít

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Okay so letís get to what are my 5 tips so that you can deliver an awesome presentation.

One, you need to practice. Number two, you need to keep the audience, keep the listeners

engaged. Number three, you need to keep it simple and sweet. Number four, properly use

visuals and number five, you need to bring it.

Okay so letís talk about practice. You hear this all the time. Iím not bringing anything

new but really no one can wing it. Of course you know there are people like Tony Robins

who gets off a airplane, he goes right to the stage but heís thinking about what heís

going to cover and heís practiced hundreds, if not, probably thousands of times. If youíre

new to speaking in front of an audience and most of us are, most of us donít get in front

of, arenít professional speakers. You need to practice and you need to practice a lot

especially if you donít know what or you havenít done this for a long time because

if you lock up in front of an audience, itís different.

In front of the camera, I can go over there and I can restart this and in fact, this video,

Iíve probably restarted 4 times. But at the end of the day, I control it. With an audience,

you donít. You donít want to lock up so let me give you an example. When I was interviewing

in business school, I went to this really high end consulting company and they brought

me into a hotel and I was sitting there with the consultant. We were having a nice conversation

and all of a sudden he turns on the interview and he starts asking me very difficult business

questions which I didnít even know half of the stuff that heís talking about.

I wasnít prepared for it and it just caught me and I froze up. Now, the reason I told

you that story is actually Iím leading this to part two so weíve talked about preparation.

Now, itís grabbing attention. Do you notice how when I told you that story about the consulting

interview, you immediately probably tuned a bit more into this video. Thatís because

I grabbed your attention. I shared with you an experience, which is true by the way, but

itís one that you can relate to because youíve locked up. Youíve had instances in which

having somebody talk to you in a language that youíre just totally lost on.

So donít be afraid to find a way to bring the audience in. One of the best ways is a

story and youíre going to need to do this every 10 to 15 minutes because you canít

just give people tons of information. You can give them information for a few minutes

but after 10 to 15 minutes, you need to bring them back with a story or bring them back

with a visual. Step away from the information and really, youíre addressing a different

part of the brain and you need to wake people up because your information may be great,

may be beautiful but youíre going to put them to sleep.

So letís talk about number three. Keep it simple and sweet. Youtubeís great about this.

Youíll notice most of the videos on Youtube are like 3 to 5 minutes long. Beyond that,

you want to keep it simple and sweet so if youíve got a longer presentation, donít

say that itís busting 35, going up to 60 minutes, really look at do you need to use

that full 60 minutes? Just because they give you 60 minutes, does not mean you have to

use the full 60 minutes.

Okay, now letís talk about visuals. PowerPoint is overused. I remember when PowerPoint first

came out and it was like ìWow!î Thatís really cool and before that, we were all using

the overheads and projectors. PowerPoint is awesome but it is so overused. You donít

have to use PowerPoint. Your visuals need to serve you. You donít want to serve your

visuals so never just read off of PowerPoint. If youíre going to use PowerPoint, use it

to get the main points across. You never want to redirect them from the slide. Look over

to your PowerPoint, maybe pull one of two notes from it but somebody should not be able

to read your PowerPoint and know exactly what the presentation was about. So make sure,

again, that you control your visuals and that your visuals do not control you.

Finally, bring it and the whole thing here is make sure you bring your A game. Be excited

because youíre not passionate about what youíre talking about, if youíre not excited,

why should your audience be? Okay, this has been Antonio Centeno with Real Men Real Style.

Hope you enjoy this video and Iíll see you in the next one. Bye-bye.