{"id":124,"date":"2008-07-05T20:12:26","date_gmt":"2008-07-05T19:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elementally.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/?p=124"},"modified":"2008-07-05T20:12:26","modified_gmt":"2008-07-05T19:12:26","slug":"speak-to-lead-posting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/speak-to-lead-posting\/","title":{"rendered":"speak to lead posting&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an interesting blog post here that looks at how speakers need (or should) have vision above and beyond themselves and what they want to say.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/businesspresentations.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/speak-to-lead.html\">http:\/\/businesspresentations.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/speak-to-lead.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My take on it is pretty similar, though with, obviously, a British take.<\/p>\n<p>My position is this&#8230;. not having a point bigger than the your presentation is a form of arrogance. &#8230;and believe it or not, that&#8217;s supposed to make you less nervous when you make your presentation.<\/p>\n<p>How? Well it goes like this. Suppose you&#8217;re doing some public speaking about something very important to you, something you passionately believe in. Maybe it&#8217;s your charity work; maybe it&#8217;s your newly founded business. Maybe it&#8217;s something the work of Amnesty International or Oxfam.<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.amnesty.org.uk\/<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.oxfam.org.uk\/<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more important? You? Or Amnesty, or Oxfam. You&#8217;re the <strong>means,<\/strong> not the end. The end is what your audience learns about Amnesty or Oxfam (for example). More importantly, it&#8217;s about what they decide to do with what you tell them. It&#8217;s not about you &#8211; don&#8217;t flatter yourself.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re not that important. Get over it. ;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an interesting blog post here that looks at how speakers need (or should) have vision above and beyond themselves and what they want to say. http:\/\/businesspresentations.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/speak-to-lead.html My take on it is pretty similar, though [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9],"tags":[16,31,35,36],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-presentation-tips","tag-anxiety","tag-nerves","tag-presentation","tag-presentations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}