Media Training Worldwide’s TJ Walker Gives Insights On Public speaking & Media Training

TJ’s Insights

May 5, 2005

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Don’t Read, Even If Your Audience Can’t See You

If you’ve been asked to deliver a presentation via a teleseminar or a webinar, this is likely to be your first reaction:

“Great! This will be simple. I can just read my script or PowerPoint. No one will see my face or my eyes. No one will know. This will be a piece of cake!”

Wrong!

Your audience can hear you reading. This is a big problem. If you haven’t rehearsed your presentation dozens of times or unless you are a professional newscaster, your reading will sound awful. Here’s why:

1. When you read your voice flattens out.
2. It becomes consistent in speed.
3. Your volume stays the same.
4. You sound canned and phony.
5. Your energy level is too consistent.
6. You sound monotone.

The result is you will put your audience to sleep. The problem is 10,000 times worse if you are reading from the same PowerPoint slides that are on the computer screen in front of your audience members around the world.

Believe it or not, most of the people in front of their computers attending your webinar already know how to read (it came in handy when they were trying to figure out which box of breakfast cereal they wanted that morning). Your audience doesn’t need you to read to them.

Ever.

EVER!

However, it is fine to have notes, outlines and other reminders of what you want to say during your teleseminar or webinar. The key is to sound like you are having a conversation with your best friend over the telephone.

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TJ Walker
Media Training Worldwide
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Media Training Worldwide provides more media and presentation training workshops and seminars (54 separate courses) than any other company in the world. Media Training Worldwide also publishes more than 100 presentation training books, DVDs, CDs, and other information products and is the largest presentation/media training publisher in the world. For a product catalog or more information on training services call 800-755-7220 or visit http://mediatrainingworldwide.com/mediatrainingcatalogapril2004.pdf.

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