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Public speech and presentation skills training in a fun and dynamic format.
San Diego public speech skill training with professional motivational speaker Milo Shapiro.
A fun and interactive way to improv your speech skills.
Coaching in presentation skills and public speech skills available.
Public speech skills and presentation skills training in a fun and dynamic format.
San Diego executive speech coach Milo Shapiro will make your program more powerful and captivating.
Los Angeles public speech skills training with professional motivational speaker Milo Shapiro.
A fun and interactive way to improv your speech skills.
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Public speech skills and presentation skills training in a fun and dynamic format.
California public speech skills training with professional motivational speaker Milo Shapiro.
A fun and interactive way to improv your speech skills.
Coaching in presentation skills and public speech skills available.
Work on your fear of speaking in public with San Diego speech coach Milo Shapiro.
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Milo Shapiro is also a motivational public speaker with presentations on risk-taking and on public speaking skills.
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Powerful Communication:
Giving Your Words
Impact
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Public Speaking Coach
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Column #4: To PowerPoint or Not To
PowerPoint!
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Q: My admin
took me aside and confided that my
PowerPoint usage is worse
than having no PowerPoint
at all because all I'm doing is
reading to people.
I realized that she is right.
Should I just skip PowerPoint then?
- R.G., San Diego |
This is a common problem. As the
speaker, you feel that the written words back up your
speaking and provide support if an audience member’s mind
wanders. You may feel engaged, but you are probably
boring them because they can read faster than you can talk
and after they’ve read, your voice becomes superfluous.
The answer to your question isn’t a
simple Yes or No. The complete answer is that PowerPoint
done well is generally better than no PowerPoint at all.
Having something visual helps those audience members who are
visual learners (estimated at 60%!) stay with you during the
time you speak between changes in visual stimulus.
Think in terms of bullet points and let
your PowerPoint be your guide through the program
instead of an exact reflection of it. If you are going to
be speaking first about the quarterly imports from China,
display a map of China when you get to that topic. If your
three bullet points are going to be the importing of (1)
candles, (2) popsicles, and (3) telephones, that’s three
more screens. The first has a smaller picture of China (to
remind us that we’re still discussing their imports) and
another picture emphasizing candles. It could be anything
from a company image of the candles you import to a child
blowing out a birthday cake. But that’s all you get to put
on that screen. If you have less than about three minutes
of information about the Chinese candles, you just talk…and
they will listen. Nothing else goes up there until the
birthday cake is replaced by the second bullet’s picture: a
child eating a popsicle.
If you had too much to say about candles
to go that long without more slides, then (on slide three)
the candle picture gets made smaller next to (or instead
of) the China map and the rest of the screen is for the
bullet point pictures under candles.
Notice how none of this fills your
screen with words. Instead, it introduces a topic in an
appealing way so that your audience wants to hear what you
have to say about it.
Is this time consuming to produce? Yes.
So you have to decide how important this presentation is to
you. Going back to my “complete answer”, you’re better off
with no PowerPoint than doing it poorly. At least they
aren’t reading ahead then.
A final tip on not showing PowerPoint:
You can still use it for yourself. No one forces you to
project it on the screen…so long as it’s bullet points and
key phrases so that you’re not just reading to them!
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A favorite coaching testimonial:
 Testimonial from
Dr.
John Jenrette,
CEO,
Sharp Community Medical Group
"I’ve participated in many programs on speaking skills over
the years, but this was my first time trying individual
executive coaching on the topic − and what a difference!
Your working directly with me advanced my knowledge and
abilities to a level that group lessons never could.
"The one-on-one
approach allowed you to focus solely in areas where I needed
development as a CEO speaking to my organization. Together,
we determined areas in which growth would benefit me and you
tailored exercises directly relevant to programs that I
give, setting that growth in motion.
"The most definitive
moments of payoff were after you worked with me on specific
upcoming programs. Your ability to help me find more
powerful words, streamline my ideas more effectively, build
stories with strong imagery, and communicate the final
speech in a dynamic style is making an impact on my
audiences. After my presentation this week, I had two
doctors came up to me and tell me how much they enjoyed my
presentation. Doctors! A tough bunch to impress!
"I had confided
in a colleague that I'd hired a coach. The day after the
presentation, he approached me to say he’s seen a noticeable
improvement in the quality of both my material and
performance. He also said he could see that audience’s
attention was decidedly stronger than in the past. "
(Please click to see the whole letter from Mr.
Jenrette)
Here's an email from Dr.
Jenrette six months later:
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Milo,
I am getting great
feedback
at my most recent talks
and lots of questions on how I did this.
Today I presented at the Sharp Leadership
conference to tell people how I was a “Learning
Leader". I told the story of how I wanted to improve
my presentation skills and how I hired a speaking coach
with improv skills and
demonstrated some of what I learned and gave a
hugely successful presentation.
Mike Murphy, the CEO
of Sharp HealthCare, told me
there are going to be lots of people who want to
find out who I worked with and there were lots of
congratulations afterward.
Our
Director of the Six
Sigma team here at Sharp HealthCare
texted me (during the meeting!) and he has been
looking for a way to improve his team of black belts
on presentation skills, facilitating their work
groups, etc., but he had not found anything very
innovative. He and I talked after the meeting and
you'll be hearing from him soon!
Thanks again, Milo and I have a feeling there will
be more interest coming from Sharp.
Happy to let you know that we're already working on
bringing you in to give your keynote "Public
Speaking: Get A's, Not Zzzzzz's!" for a larger group
so we can gauge interest in more coaching around
Sharp. Hope you have time in December for
that.
John E. Jenrette MD
John E. Jenrette MD
Chief Executive & Medical Officer
Sharp Community Medical Group |
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