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How to be a Confident and Attractive Presenter

August 8, 2018 by Muhammad Noer Leave a Comment

A goal to be a fascinating speaker are highly require a good public speaking capability. This specific capability will makes you up to be an outstanding and motivated speaker. A good public speaking capability is also beneficial in your daily basis, particularly when your have to deliver an idea in an office meeting or when you want to convince an important client.

Obviously everyone has a public speaking capability, in contrary most of us do not think so. We usually blame a lack of talent in speaking and a minimal scale of confidence in our personality. In fact, with a good training, all of us can be a good public speaker. A fortitude to learn and practice was a requirement to be a good and fascinating public speaker.

How to be a better Public Speaker

A basic requirement for a proper public speaking is a good confidence. A basic level of confidence will help you to avoid some troubles. Getting stuck in a phrase or continuously trembling during your speaking session result a terrible presentation.

Contrasting a low level of confidence is an over confidence. When you feel you are so fascinating, you start to fail to notice your audience. The result is clear enough, an over confidence speaker will perform a terrible presentation as well.

For most people, delivering a presentation were a daily business, even so they didn’t get their most favorable performance yet. Then, a goal to be a better speaker is going to a constant effort.

There are some guidelines for you in order to be a more interesting and effective speaker:

1. Arrange a Clear Plan

A good presentation contain a clear and understandable objective. If your objective is become a better speaker or better presenter, you have to arrange a plan to help you get an excellent performance.

Initially you have to organize a bunch of presentation materials in accordance with your specific theme and audience.

Once you organize the presentation materials, a detailed delivery plan is a basic requirement. With a comprehensive plan, the way you deliver you presentation will be clear enough for yourself and reach the audience flawlessly.

2. Practice

Practice makes perfect. Your regular practice will help you to deliver your arranged presentation in a better way. Afterward the practice will improve your confidence gradually. The better technique to deliver a presentation and a higher level of confidence will help you improve your presentation quality.

You can organize your practice in two ways. First of all try to practice your speaking skill individually by speak up your idea in front of a mirror. Your reflection in the mirror can be act as an impersonation of your audience. Examine the way you speak. Whether it is interesting or boring, your examination will be a good way to improve your skill.

On the other hand, you can try practice your speaking skill with closest people around you. Your family or friends at your office can act as your audience. They can help you with their honest examination. Base on their review, you will improve your skill by avoiding many mistakes or irrelevant gestures in real event.

3. Stay Close with your Audience

The ideal way to be close to the audience is to be familiar with them. Once you have a strong connection, you will obtain a best way to communicate with your audience.

There are many ways to familiar to the audience. It will be much easier if your just have small number of audience. When they are about 15 people you can examine their profile personally.

Sometimes a personal profile examination was impossible. A wide range approach still a basic must. You have to know their educational and occupational background or whether they belong to a similar or random community. A basic knowledge of the audience profile provides you many material to arrange your communication plan.

A presentation that emerging from the audience profile create a strong connection. The speaker gives the impression of being familiar with audience for his/her idea share a similar concern with the audience.

Once a speaker and the audience get along in a familiar atmosphere it means you are successful enough to be named as a good and interesting speaker.

4. Apply a Proper Body Language

A number of speakers didn’t realize that body language shape the way people communicate. Sometimes a speaker feel he was ready enough when his presentation material was well arranged and was close to his audience.

However a speaker can ruins his presentation when he didn’t coordinate a proper gesture or body language. Inappropriate body languages generate an awkward moments and produce a meaningless presentation.

Sometimes an appropriate body language simply originates from a natural performance. You just have to carefully orchestrate how to walk properly on stage, decide a specific moment to go closer or make a short distance from your audience, set up a modest eye contact with the audience, or strengthening a statement with a hand gesture.

Some speaker consider to deliver their presentation on a platform. The decision seems more comfortably since they didn’t have to perform such body language. The speaker will simply stand on a best position on stage while speaking and sometimes illustrate the presentation with a video or slide show on screen.

There’s nothing wrong with the technique, the audience still love your presentation, anyway. Especially if you are a famous figure and you have a great idea in your presentation. However, you will bring your presentation to a next level if you dare to leave the platform (it is not a UN general assembly then). Audience will love you more when you walk on stage, come closer to them, or use a modest hand and facial expression.

Performing a proper body language while you speaking is a indication of a good confidence. The more confident a speaker is, the more interesting his presentation.

All these guidelines and steps give you an idea that to be a confident and attractive speaker/presenter is a possibility, depend on your constant practice.

Sometimes it seems that learn it all alone was the way too difficult. That’s why we’re here to give you a hand. We’re happy to support you to be a confident and attractive speaker with a great skill to deliver a fascinating presentation.

If you want to join us and learn it all together you can get the information here.

The Power of Vulnerability Inspirational Presentation by Brene Brown

July 25, 2018 by Muhammad Noer Leave a Comment

Brené Brown is a US Public Speaker, research professor and book author. She is also a Doctor of Philosophy in Social work. She has spent last fifteen years studying vulnerability, courage, shame and compassion. Her three books on the subjects were in the #1 New York Times Bestsellers list.

The books inspired many people to recognize themselves as imperfect human being. A consciousness of our imperfection is a starting point to grow as a better, stronger and happier human being.

She has mentioned the statement in her presentation. Brown reveals an idea about how various weaknesses make up someone’s vulnerability. In turn, the vulnerable individual will uncomfortable with their life, and lost their capability to be respect and loved. The following clip is Brown’s Inspirational presentation in TEDXHouston:

Brown’s Opening Presentation

Brown opens her presentation in a remarkable way. She start it all by tell a story. She tells an experience when an event planner called her because she was going to do a speaking event. She tells the audience how that person was confused with Brown’s profession.

“I think, I’m afraid if I call you a researcher on the little flyer, no one will come.” The event planner said. Then she goes on with, ”But the thing I liked about your talk is you’re a story teller. You tell many things as a story. So I think what I’ll do is just call you a story teller.

In a comical approach, Brown tells how she responded about the idea, “You’re going to call me a what? Why don’t you just say I’m a researcher-story teller.”

Opening her presentation in this way, Brown delivers a great trick for an exciting presentation. Brown’s relaxing story in the beginning of her presentation successfully binds people to her during the presentation.

Insipration from the Presentation

In an e-book of Astonishing Presentation, the most important factor in a presentation is its content. When you can deliver a presentation with a deep inspiration for your audiences, it means you have a success and effective presentation.

In Brené Brown’s presentation, there are some powerful contents. One of them is an idea about shame. When speak about shame Brown said, “Shame is understood as the fear of disconnection that other people know it or see it.”

Shame arises when people start to think I’m not good enough, I’m not beautiful enough, I’m not smart enough. The insufficient feeling in turn will underpinned vulnerability, especially when connect with others.

Brown brings her own experience in to play. She tells a period of her life when she become so vulnerable and need a help from a therapist. Brown articulates how she has her own vulnerability and struggle hard to overcome it. Drawing on her own experience as a case in point, the audiences accept the presentation as a true and meaningful speech.

Brown encourages her audience to embrace their vulnerability, “We have to be familiar with our vulnerability. If we numb our vulnerable self we lose our ability to be grateful.”

At this point Brown gives confidence to her audience to accept everything in their life, accept their vulnerability, and learn to be grateful. An ability to be grateful is a condition to grow happiness.

Brown is a professional social worker. She meets various people and bridges a connection between them. The connection requires an unconditional love. In order to love people even the one that she didn’t know before, we have to be kind to ourselves first and then to others. Because as it turns out we can’t practice compassion with other people if we can’t treat ourselves kindly.

A Closing that Melts Your Heart

A good and effective presentation should left a deep meaning in audience heart. Beside its opening part, a good closing part of a presentation must get enough attention for its crucial role.

Brené Brown closed her presentation in a remarkable approach when she presented some encouraging idea. Her closing statement assembles up many ideas in her presentation and helps her audience understand her presentation in a good way.

Brown presented an idea about vulnerability. A vulnerable aspect of an individual’s life must be seen as an opportunity and not as an obstacle instead. On a ground of interpersonal connection, someone vulnerablity can act as a bridge and a strong point to build up a good and helathy connection.

The advantage of vulnerabilty aspect in someone’s life will arise if he or she embraces it. This act of acceptance encourage self to understand that we have are worthy enough to be loved and to love everybody.

Brown underlined the idea in her closing part, “Because when we work from a place, I believe I’m enough, then we stop screaming and start listening. We will kinder and gentler to the people around us, and we’re kinder and gentler to ourselves.”

In her modest appearance, Brown shows us that she’s in a master speaker category, thanks to her academic ability. Brown seems to realize that she has to build a strong connection with her audience first. This is a very reason why she deliver her idea in a non-academic style and choose a more popular way instead.

Anaphora: World figures’ outstanding Presentation Technique

July 11, 2018 by Muhammad Noer Leave a Comment

Some world figures are widely known for their outstanding presentation act. For instance we can see some figures such as the late Steve Jobs, Al Gore or Barrack Obama. Each of them seems to have a specific and unique style, but when we try to observe them closer there is something emerging. All of them were united by a single exceptional technique, anaphora.

Anaphora is a Greek word for a repetition of a similar phrase or word at a beginning of a sequential sentence.

The world figures commonly use Anaphora as a technique to deliver a motivational or inspirational speech.

They bring into play the technique with the aim of persuade and encourage their audiences to remark upon the presentation.

A presentation with anaphora technique is widely confirmed as an effective method to inspire audiences. The well known world figures are prove of the technique’s effectiveness.

Undoubtedly their reputation was one of the reason of why many people were astonished by their presentation or speech. Nevertheless, a good result will not appear when they deliver the speech in a bad and uninteresting way.

By these following examples we can see how anaphora applied as the world figure presentation’s technique.

1. Barrack Obama

In his 2008 Berlin speech, Barrack Obama addressed, Will we stand for the human rights of the dissident in Burma, the blogger in Iran, or the voter in Zimbabwe? Will we give meaning to the words ‘never again’ in Darfur? Wiil we reject torture and stand out for the rule of law? Will we welcome immigrants from different lands? This is our time.

In the speech Obama use anaphora when he replicated ‘will we.’

2. Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Churchill was a book author before he became prime minister of Great Britain on the era of world war II. In the following speech we will look at Winston Churchill oration before the House of Common June 4, 1940.

We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight with growing strength in the air, we shall never surrender.

In this speech we learn that Winston Churchill constantly repeat phrase “We shall”.

3. Martin Luther King, Jr

Marthin Luther King, Jr was a central figure for African-Amrican equality movement. He was well known with his phenomenal speech I Have a Dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the the true meaning of its creed. I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of the former slaves owner will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judge by the color of their skin but by content of their character.

You can see that King empower the phrase I have a dream to astound the audience.

Those three examples show us that the world figures in fact have several points they demand to deliver. They did it by constantly repeat a similar phrase. Draw on a specific phrase as their anaphora’s instrument they lead their audiences to focus on their demanded points.

The certain repetition conducts the audiences to go behind and convicted to the orator.

The anaphora technique was already confirmed as a constructive technique in order to inspire many people. However you have to remember that there are several detail to be pointed out in your presentation:

· Do not overuse

When you decide to use a repetitive to you have to carefully consider when you do it. You don’t want your presentation is just a bunch of meaningless repetition. When you overuse such repetition it will be a boring presentation.

· Use a simple and important phrase

Anaphore will be powerfull when you find a short and simple phrase. A long and complicated phrase will be uneasy to remembered.

· Point out a specific tone

A repetitive phrase will sound more familiar when you use a specific intonation each time you said it. The intonation compose a stimulation to the audience to feel a special message behind a repetitive phrase. Once you bring

master the intonation you have to manage your rhytm. Take a short pause before repeat the phrase. This way will create a wonderful anticipation to the audience.

You can learn from the wold’s figures to become an outstanding presenter or orator. Anaphora for sure, is just one of many presentation techniques, there are still many technique to learn.

Beside it you can try to use a short story or a joke to make an interesting presention for your audience.

10 PowerPoint Shortcuts That Are Barely Known

June 6, 2018 by Muhammad Noer Leave a Comment

Shortcut is the key combination on computer keyboard that commonly accustomed to execute some instruction or particular feature in a computer program or application. Most familiar shortcut is Ctrl+C to copy a text and Ctrl+V to paste one.

Both shortcuts are well known, by using such kind of shortcut several kinds of instructions and feature will be more quickly accessed.

By using a specific shortcut our work can be done faster and boost our productivity as well.

PowerPoint as a popular program has many shortcut that can help us to create or edit a presentation. In reality, do you know that in Power Point there are many shortcuts that still rarely known and widely used. This tutorial will tell you 10 shortcuts that rarely known by PowerPoint user. Let’s now check it out the shortcuts.

1. Ctrl+M to make a New Slide

The first shortcut is Ctrl+M that you can use to make a new slide. Most common way to do it is to click new slide icon on home menu. You can use the shortcut by simultaneously push C and M key on your keyboard each time you want to make a PowerPoint Presentation.

2. Ctrl+G to do a Grouping

Grouping is a way to combine some objects, by grouping you can edit the objects at the same time. Usually people do grouping by clicking right button of the mouse, select group, and finally do grouping, it just take too many steps. With the shortcut it can be done much easier and faster. Just select some particular objects you want to group and then press C and G key on your keyboard simultaneously, and voila you just did it.

3. Ctrl+Shift to Ungroup

As the opposite of Grouping, Ungroup is a technique to split grouping objects. Ungroup is very useful when you want to edit a particular object individually. Normally, ungrouping done by selected an object that will be ungrouped with a mouse cursor, right click on the mouse, select group, and then do ungroup. For faster way use the shortcut by select ungrouped object then simultaneously press C+Shift+G.

4. F5 to start a Slide show from the first Slide

To start slide show we commonly execute it by select first slide of our presentation and click Slide show icon in right corner of the bottom of your screen next to the zoom icon. By using shortcut what you need is just simply use a single key. Press F5 and your slide show will starting from its first slide.

5. Shift+F5 to do a Slide show from an active Slide

It is simple to start a slide show from a very first slide, but how to do a slide show from an active slide or when the slide’s editing is still on the way? Just use the shortcut by execute Shift+F5 key at once and a Slide show of an active Slide will be starting. You can do this feature when you want to test our slide, whether it is appropriate in a slide show or still need more improvement.

6. Ctrl+Shift+> to increase text’s size

Habitually we increase our text size by select a specific text and the click home menu and after that click the large “A” icon for several times to get specified size. A shortcut to do the similar execution can be done by select a particular text that you want to enlarge and then press Ctrl+Shift and finally press > for several times to gain your suitable size.

7. Ctrl+Shift+< to minimize text’s size

When your text dimension look too large you can decrease its size by use combination of Ctrl+Shift+< for several times up until its size decrease to your suitable dimension.

8. F12 to Save As

You do Save As when you want to save a similar presentation in a different name. We usually did it when we want to keep the original version of our presentation, but still have to do some editing for a particular project. Most customary fashion to do it is by select File Menu, find Save As, type your certain file name, and save the presentation. For a straightforward way just use a shortcut to Save As by using F12 key in your PowerPoint, type a certain file name, and it is done. You can also do the similar technique in other Microsoft Office Application such as Microsoft Word and Excel.

9. Ctrl+D to Duplicate an Object

In order to make an object’s duplicate the common way to do it is by Copy the certain object and Paste it in a PowerPoint Slide Presentation. We can hack the way and make it more simple with a shortcut. Select your targeted object and use a combination of Ctrl+D, you can duplicate the object as many as you want by do the combination over and over again.

10. Ctrl+F1 to Bring out or Hide in the Ribbon

Ribbon is a cluster of button and icon located under every Menu in a Microsoft Office Application, including PowerPoint. With the intention to make a more comfortable editing process, sometimes we want a larger view of our presentation slide. We can have it by hide in the Ribbon. Use a combination of Ctrl+F1 to hide it in and just do the shortcut to bring it out.

Improving Your Public Speaking Ability

April 25, 2018 by Muhammad Noer Leave a Comment

Presentation “world” will always have something to do with public speaking. If you want to be an expert presenter, or at least be a good and effective presenter, you need to have public speaking technique.

The main ability you must have to master public speaking is of course communication ability or the ability to speak. It means that you can speak clearly and intelligible.

So, it is important to have a good vocal ability. Vocal ability here means the ability to speak with precise volume and clear articulation. Volume and articulation are factors that make your voice can be heard clearly by the audience.

If the audience cannot hear your voice clearly, their attention to your presentation decreases. It could make your presentation less interesting. Besides, there are other things that support your public speaking, such as gestures, material and tools you use. The most important thing of all is self confidence. There are some ways you should do to improve your public speaking.

1. Improving your self confidence

There are some things that make your voice indistinctly hear, even if you use mic. The main cause is the lack of self confidence. If you have to speak in public with less self confidence, you will feel nervous.

Nervousness can lessen your voice. You become anxious, and it affects your voice volume. To gain and increase your self confidence, you have to have faith in yourself.

You have to believe in yourself that you can give the best. To improve your self confidence, you can practice delivering speech in front of your relatives or friends.

2. Improving your voice

When you are speaking in front of public, you must control your voice power. Someone’s voice power will be worse if he does not use chest and belt voice properly. Belt voice is produced by pressing an abdomen, not a neck. If you use belt voice, your voice will sound more clear and good. This voice could be trained by practicing breathing technique. Practice your breathing regularly by taking breath using diaphragm. If you are used to breathing this way, you will have a good belt voice.

Besides, you should also notice voice resonance. Resonance is a factor that can strengthen your voice. This resonance technique can be trained by closing your mouth, then saying “Hmmmmmmm” using your chest voice. After doing so, try to speak by combining your chest and belt voices. You can practice also by reading loudly. When you can read loudly, although sometimes you make mistakes, you have enough resources to speak in front of public. Practicing reading loudly can make you learn how to articulate words properly.

3. Practicing by telling stories to children

Reading tales to children can help improving your public speaking skill. Telling tales needs some sort of skill in order to make the story more amusing to children. When telling tales, you need volume, good articulation and rhythm that suits to the story. Sometimes, you have to whisper, sometimes you have to scream while telling tales to children. You have to express the emotion that the characters show in the story. It will be useful for you when you deliver a presentation. In front of the audience, playing voice volume and rhythm are required when you deliver a speech. Sometimes, you have to speak slowly, but sometimes fast, suit to the material you deliver in your presentation.

4. Watching presentation videos

There are many presentation videos shared freely in the internet. You can watch them on TED.com. There you can learn how presenters in the whole world deliver their presentations. Chose a suitable presenter and then learn his/her style in delivering presentations. Notice and learn the gesture he/she uses when speaking in front of public. Notice also the material he/she deliver and how he/she deliver it. After that, adjust his/her style to you style and personality. Don’t force to use another people’s style if it doesn’t suit you.

Besides doing things above, you can also ask for help from professionals or attend presentation or public speaking workshops. By practicing to deliver presentation or public speaking, you will find the proper way to improve your skill.