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TJ Walker has created some new videos and is soon going to market them across the country to various TV networks. However, before pitching these networks we would like your honest opinion.

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  • Is this something you would like to see on your local morning news show?
  • Which is your favorite?
  • Are the segments too short, too long..?
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  • Have you seen anything like this before?

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Using Powerpoint in your Presentation

  1. If you are presenting complex abstractions, artwork or other uniquely visual information, PowerPoint is quite effective.
  2. If a PowerPoint slide has just a handful of words on it, you didn’t need the slide in the first place.
  3. Face it: chances are you are using PowerPoint because you are scared, timid, and afraid to make a real speech.
  4. Nobody ever got promoted to CEO, won political office, or developed a reputation as a great communicator by relying on PowerPoint.
  5. PowerPoint slides can be quite effective when used properly, as an enhancement to a speaker’s presentation.
  6. When using PowerPoint, make sure you are not putting your audience to sleep.

Hiring a Professional Media Trainer for your Media Interview

  1. Bad communicators approach media training and rehearsing as if it were a shameful activity.
  2. Those who could not care less if everyone knew they took media training courses are always better communicators.
  3. Good and great presenters take the same attitude when it comes to public speaking.
  4. Good speaking and interviewing really is a collection of simple skills, techniques, and habits that anyone can learn to do well.
  5. Whether you use a professional coach or just practice with friends and family, the best attitude to have towards healthy communicating is the same as a good attitude towards healthy teeth.
  6. Get a check up every six months.

BY TJ Walker



Disarming the Distractions

There will always be distractions when you speak. Some members of your audience will sneeze, others will have to get up to go to the bathroom, and of course, some will have their cell phones go off, repeatedly. What's the best way for you, the speaker, to react in these situations?

For starters, you need to be "in the moment." Some speakers are well-prepared, but they come across as memorized. So if a baby cries or a siren goes off, the speakers pauses in such a way that you worry he will fall out of his grove and never find it again. You don't want to come across that rigid. If your audience feels you are always thinking about what comes next on the TelePrompTer in your brain, they will worry for you if there is a distracting noise or action in the room.

Part of your responsibility as a speaker is to size up a distraction to see if merits a reaction from you. If one person in your audience lets out a slight burp, better not to comment at all. You don't want to seem like you are trying to embarrass anyone. But if the president of an organization or your lead prospect walks into the room when you are in the middle of your speech, you may want to say "Hi Sally," or "Hi Jim." Just make sure that you don't seem in any way annoyed at them for coming in late - you have no idea what other crises they may have had to deal with.

One thing you don't have to do is be funny in reaction to funny sounds, water spilling or silverware falling to the ground. If you can be funny, great, but don't try to be Don Rickles. The main thing is to be relaxed, in the moment, real and not bothered by anything.
   

YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED !

TJ Walker & Jess Todtfeld along with The Speaking Channel team wants your questions about speaking to audiences, presenting, or speaking to the media. Have a burning question?
We want to answer it.

Send questions to: jess @ speakingchannel.tv

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Here are some guidelines to consider before attacking someone in the media.

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Publisher: TJ Walker
Managing Editor: Jess Todtfeld
Creative Director : Kris Gentile

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