Last week, I gave you my Presentation Skills Checklist. And step one in that checklist was to know your audience.

Listen to any speaking coach, go to any Toastmasters, attend any presentation seminar, you will hear a single phrase over and over. “Know your audience.” Sounds really good too. When we hear the phrase, we think, “Well, of course. That makes sense.” But what exactly does “know your audience mean?” Is there a formula to help a speaker know his or her audience better?

Well, yes, there is. In fact, every presenter should use this formula before creating any speech or any PowerPoint slide. Because the answers that you get from following the formula will greatly change what content you cover in your presentation. The answers will also allow you to change your delivery so that your audience is more likely to agree with you.

So, on today's episode, I'll show how to research your audience and identify exactly what they need to take away from your presentation and why. If you understand this, design great presentations and reducing presentation nervousness is a piece of cake.

Show Notes: Know Your Audience before Designing Presentation

(https://www.fearlesspresentations.com/know-your-audience-before-designing-your-sales-presentation/)

On today's episode, I'm going to give you a presentation skills checklist that can make designing and delivering a presentation easier and less risky. When folks go through our presentation skills classes, they are often surprised at how simple public speaking really is. That is if you have a great structure and follow a simple checklist.

Before pilots take a plane off the ground, they always follow a written checklist. They don’t follow this process by memory. Instead, they check off each task one by one.

There is a reason why every pilot does this. The process takes a tremendous amount of risk out of the equation. The checklist also takes something very complex and makes it very simple.

Great presenters do the same thing. If you follow a simple presentation checklist, you make delivering the presentation less risky.

In my classes, I teach students how to design an entire presentation, from start to finish, in fifteen minutes or less. These class members are often shocked at how fast they can design their presentations. They finish in minutes what would have typically taken hours (or weeks) to complete.

On this episode, I cover a simple presentation checklist that you can use when you design PowerPoint presentations. It will help you shorten your preparation time and also reduce your fear of public speaking.

Then, in the next few weeks, we'll go into each step in a little more detail.

Show Notes: Presentation Skills Checklist

(https://www.fearlesspresentations.com/checklist-presentation-skills/)

!!ANNOUNCEMENT!!

We are super excited to announce the new way we will be doing our Fearless Presentations classes and if you are interested in hearing all about it I cover it pretty extensively from 2:33 - 15:32.

For those that are more of our loyal listeners to the podcast, y'all probably started listening in the first place because you were wanting to reduce nervousness when you present. Of course a lot of our episodes are built around that idea but what a lot of people seem to underestimate is the fact that a large reason they're likely nervous is they are trying to stand up and deliver a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad speech.

Even the absolute best speaker or presenter on planet earth trying to deliver material that absolutely sucks, will almost always still end up sucking. So between you and I, most people that are struggling with nerves and fear of speaking aren't due to anxiety or anything like that, it's due to delivering a bad speech. Too many points in too little time being the main problem I see.

So in this episode, I'm gonna cover how you can not only throw together an entire presentation relatively fast, but also end up with a speech that's well laid out and won't make you even more nervous cause of how bad it is.

Online Speech Creator

How to Design a Good Title

How to Design Better Bullet Points

How to Use Better Examples and Stories

Show Notes: How to Design Presentations Quickly

(https://www.fearlesspresentations.com/how-to-design-presentations-quickly/)