{"id":1375,"date":"2012-03-07T08:12:33","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T08:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/presentation-skills-blog.co.uk\/?p=1375"},"modified":"2012-03-07T08:12:33","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T08:12:33","slug":"the-confidence-to-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/the-confidence-to-present\/","title":{"rendered":"The confidence to present"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Confidence can be very visible.<\/p><\/div>\n

I’ve been working hard (honestly) recently on our new Confidence Tricks course<\/a> (face to face training in feeling confident and acting it when you’re not) so it’s not surprising that confidence has been on my mind – specifically the confidence to make presentations. Thinking about it more, and talking to colleges around here lead to one of my more contentious tweets:<\/p>\n

If you don’t have confidence to make presentation ask what UR afraid of. Is it presenting or is it discovering you don’t know your subject!?<\/p>\n

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I’ve thought about it since and I’m beginning to have more subtle feelings about it but heck, given the 140 character limit of twitter it works for me! :)<\/p>\n

What I’m getting at is that all too often wanna-be presenters (or more often wanna-not-but-have-to-be presenters) seem to think that there’s a Holy Grail to making presentations and use ‘research’ about the techniques (for which read ‘dicking about instead of getting down to it) as a way of putting off the hard part of actually figuring out what they’re going to say. The number of times people ask me to help them design a presentation before they’ve got the content sorted out never ceases to amaze me.<\/p>\n

For the record, it goes like this:<\/p>\n