This Is The Do Or Die Moment For Your Speaking Improvement

OK here’s the part of the course where big decisions had to be made.

You can sort of sit back and be theater critic and treat this like you’re watching Netflix.

Although believe me there are better things on Netflix and said well I didn’t like the T.J. didn’t have more slides and images and music or you can actually learn how to be a great presenter.

It’s not going to happen unless you do the next thing.

I need you to take your one page of notes and practice speaking on video and record it.

I know you don’t like doing this.

I know you don’t enjoy it.

I know you don’t feel comfortable.

Guess what.

Nobody in your audience cares.

Hoping to sound mean or cruel.

But it’s just a fact your audience wants your best.

If you’re not willing to practice then you don’t really know if you’re any good or not.

That’s what causes people to get nervous or uncomfortable or fearful or have sweat.

The number one way to be confident when you speak is not to visualize your audience giving you a standing ovation.

Visualize the audience in their underwear.

Bad idea for a lot of reasons.

The number one way to get over fear to be confident to actually be a great speaker is to practice speaking on video until you love it so the answer is not just to practice on video.

If you practice your speech on video and don’t look at it now can help at all.

If you practice your speech once on video and make detailed notes of all the things you didn’t like.

Guess what.

That’s not going to help that’s actually going to make you worse because you’re gonna be fixated on.

Oh my gosh I said armed twice.

That’s the end of the world.

Don’t say I don’t say.

You’re going to trip yourself up.

That’s not going to help.

The solution to being fully confident to be fully prepared for a presentation is to practice on video as many times as it takes until you can look at that video whether it’s on your cell phone your iPad your laptop and you like it and you think you’re coming across the best you can possibly come across in terms of style and substance My Recommendation Don’t wait anymore.

Don’t fast forward to the next video you’re going to be tempted to do this right now.

Look at it and then focus on what you like.

Not just your weaknesses but also look at what you don’t like when you read.

Record it.

Try to improve just one area at a time.

So if you notice for example that your head is frozen and stiff the whole time give your presentation again this time specifically moving your head.

Now you can do this with another colleague holding the camera and don’t worry about what type of camera doesn’t matter what type of camera and a cell phone and a ten dollar webcam.

You’re not making a movie here.

This is just a training tool to help you figure out what are you putting out to the world.

Because if you think your presentation your speech is really boring.

Guess what it is.

If you think you’re coming across boring monotone guess what.

You are.

The answer is not to not look at it or to wing it.

The answers keep practicing until you love it.

The greatest speakers in the world are often the ones who spent the most time practicing on video.

The people you see on TED Talks quite often have given their speech hundreds if not thousands of times before you actually get to see it and they practiced on video.

Someone like a former president Ronald Reagan of the United States would practice his speeches major speeches like the State of the Union for an hour reading it out loud every night for a week and then spend an entire day doing video taped rehearsal.

Why did you do all that.

He did it so that when he was reading his teleprompter it didn’t sound like he was reading the teleprompter of all the tips I’m going to give you in this course.

This is far and away the most important.

It’s also the one people are least likely to follow.

So I’m begging you practice your speech repeatedly on video and tell not till it’s perfect but until you think it’s the best you can do with your current skill level it’s gonna make all the difference in the world.

Some of you are gonna want to say Well T.J.

you didn’t give us enough practice practical tips in this course or it’s not long enough you can spend 12 hours just on this if you wanted to.

You don’t need more tips on the angle for holding your hand or whether your hands should go in your pockets or not.

If you haven’t done this basic element of practicing your presentation on video.

So before you advance before you rate the cause or do anything else please practice your presentation on video repeatedly and tell you think your great.the cause or do anything else please practice your presentation on video repeatedly and tell you think your great.