Presenting Magically
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Presenting Magically

Transform your stage presence with NLP

Tad James MS PhD, David Shephard BSc DES

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Presenting Magically

Transform your stage presence with NLP

Tad James MS PhD, David Shephard BSc DES

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Whether you are a newcomer or a seasoned professional, Presenting Magically will provide you with masterful tips and techniques to transform your presenting skills. " A treasure trove of information on how to acquire the skills of a world class presenter." Judith E. Pearson PhD, Anchor Point

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Année
2000
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9781845903541
Chapter One

Setting the Frame

Introducing 


How do you start a training or a presentation? There are many possibilities. Doubtless you will find your own unique way of beginning. Here as an example is the way we do it. When everyone is settled, stand at centre stage, and start by saying something like this:
“Good morning. How are you feeling? Are you ready for this? Whatever ‘this’ is, by the way. What are we actually doing today? Presenting Magically is what we are doing. And it sounds from talking to a number of you outside 
 Oh, by the way, for those of you who haven’t met me before, let me tell you my name. I am ______________. It is great to meet you all. We have a very good, exciting three days planned, and you will be seeing quite a lot of me, and our assistants. We will be watching you as you are presenting, over these days. So it’s looking good. Let me give you the big picture of what Presenting Magically is about, just in case you don’t know, so that you can decide whether you do really want to be here.”
Now this introduction may seem a little strange, rather contrived, but there are reasons for this, which we’ll go over later, but only after we have covered many other things.
Presenting Magically is about your being totally comfortable and congruent, being yourself, in front of an audience of any size. And however many people there are in that audience – one person, a dozen people, or 1000 people – you are presenting or training to great effect, remaining totally at ease in front of them.
When you make the techniques and skills in this book your own, you will be able to connect with every single person in an audience of any size so that they all feel a very strong connection with you. Then you will have their full attention for the whole period of time. And this means that you will be able to communicate so effectively to a group that everyone in the group gets your message and derives the highest possible level of learning from your presentation or training.
The key phrase is being comfortable, being yourself. Because as we were preparing this training, we were amazed at how many professional presenters and trainers said:
“I can’t be me in front of an audience. First I have to put on my ‘presentation suit’. And I adopt a special presentation personality for use in these situations.”
So we asked:
“Well, wouldn’t it be a lot easier if you were just you?”
“Oh no, I couldn’t just be myself in front of an audience. That wouldn’t be powerful enough. I have to have my ‘armour’ on.”
Most likely what they weren’t saying was:
“Because if I don’t have my presentation armour then I would feel weak, or vulnerable, or open to attack.”
Presenting Magically is about leaving the armour behind, allowing yourself to come out from behind your wall, and being totally comfortable and being totally OK being yourself in front of an audience. Any audience. And by the end of this book, having done all the exercises, this is what you can expect to be doing. That would be a skill well worth having, wouldn’t it?

Why are you here?

Having explained the overall purpose of the training, you need to bring everybody into the group, so that they are totally focused on what you have to tell them. When people first arrive at a training, when they walk in the door, you have no idea what has just been happening to them. If they have been travelling, and the traffic was bad or the train was late, their journey may have put them in an agitated state. They may have left home having had an argument with some member of the family. Or they may consider that attending the training is ‘having a few days off’, ‘a holiday’ from the office, from the project they are engaged in, or away from their demanding customers, or whatever. And some of them will definitely be there to hear what you have to say, and can’t wait to get the goodies!
Whatever state people arrive in, you need to make sure that, if it is less than ideal for learning, you can move them into a state that is more useful for getting what you are offering. A good way of doing that is to have them focus on their reasons for being there.
Ask them to direct their attention away from their immediate past experience, out into the future, toward what they want, or hope to gain personally. You may say something like:
“So, why are you here? Whenever I have a group of people with me, I presuppose that they have some reason for being here. Because if you don’t have a reason for being here, you would be somewhere else, wouldn’t you? So what are your personal reasons for being here? Why bother to do this training?
“It might be because you have had some experiences of presenting or training in the past, or of being up in front of an audience, which maybe didn’t go quite as well as you would have liked. Or maybe it went OK, but you thought, ‘I can do better, out in the future.’
“Maybe your current situation means you are having to do more presentations than before. Or you have to do them now, but you have never done any presenting before. Or maybe you have been asked to do some trainings, to train some other people, and you want to find out how to do that.
“Or maybe there are things you are wanting to do in the future. Maybe you want to become a presenter or a trainer, or you want to work with groups of people – doing sales presentations, business presentations, or general public training.”
Take a moment to review your reasons for reading this book. And whatever your reasons are, that’s fine. They are your reasons. And you can change them, or add to them whenever you wish.

The number one fear

Many people have some kind of strong response to the thought of presenting in public. When a survey was done in the United States, asking people what they were most afraid of, public speaking was at the top of the list. Public speaking is the number one fear in the United States. The number two fear in the US is death. So you could say that, in the States, there are more people who are afraid of speaking in front of an audience than are afraid of dying. Here in the United Kingdom, public speaking comes in at number two on the chart of fears. The number one fear in the UK is fear of spiders. Then comes public speaking. If you were speaking in front of a group of spiders then it would rise to number one. But generally it comes second.
Even well-known people that we might assume would be totally OK in front of an audience, such as actors and performers who do it for a living, may still have this fear before they go on stage. For example, the actor Jimmy Durante, who was famous in the 40s and 50s, and whose last film was, It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) had terrible stage fright. Even though Jimmy ‘Schnozzola’ Durante spent his life on the stage, in the movies, and making public appearances, one thing that is not well known is that he was so afraid of being in front of an audience, that he physically threw up before each time he went on stage or did a public presentation. He was physically sick because he was so nervous about performing. So if you are feeling in any way less than totally cool, calm and relaxed about ‘presentations!’ – like “Eerrgh!” or “Help!” – then know you are in good company.
One of the things that we can guarantee the people who come on the live trainings is that by the end of the first day, all of their performance anxiety around presentation will have totally disappeared. For most people this happens easily, although a few may need some personal attention. However, without the direct contact, all we can do in this book is take you through some processes that will definitely help you let go of any fears, nervousness, or limiting beliefs that you have about yourself, which concern your being less than totally magnificent and powerful in front of an audience. When these fears have disappeared you can then enjoy the rest of the exercises and get the most out of this book.
For the moment, continue to mull over your personal reasons for reading this book. And while you are thinking about them, let us tell you about the practical considerations of doing a training or presentation.

Time integrity

In a training, it is important to keep to a certain time frame, because there is a lot to fit in. Explain the timing schedule right at the start, so that the audience knows what is expected.

Training agreements

To ensure the smooth running of the training, you must get some agreements from the course participants. Agreeing to these things means that we will more easily achieve the results we want. Ask participants to:
  • Be on time, both at the beginning of the day, and after each break.
  • Turn off mobile phones and pagers – or at least put them on vibrate mode.
  • Keep all conversations front to back. Which means that during the training, all conversations involve the trainer or presenter and just one person in the audience – rather than there being separate conversations taking place all over the room.
  • Make sure that all of your attention is on what is happening at the front of the room, because that will enable you to get the most out of the training.

Conscious unconscious integration

One of the major differences between what we do and what happens during other trainings is that the content is designed to enable people to learn both with their conscious and with their unconscious mind. Therefore, all behaviour in a training is intentional and designed to work on both levels.
In learning Presenting Magically you will be doing many exercises. To get the most out of them you need to engage in them fully, and do them to the very best of your ability. As you work through them, you will find that you are soon doing so much that you get consciously overloaded. From our side, this is intentional. The material is challenging, because it is new and different, and you have so much to concentrate on that you will no longer be able to think consciously. Then you will have to trust your unconscious mind. After all, that is where learning is really happening.

Previous experience of NLP

Much of the material in this book is based on concepts from NLP, which will be explained in Chapter Two. Our introductory trainings invariably have people new to NLP in them. The good thing about NLP is that you start from where you are. No previous knowledge is required.

Exercise 1: Your Goals and Outcomes

One significant finding coming from Neuro-Linguistic Programming is that you achieve far better results when you start with the end in mind, when you are clear about your reasons for wanting to achieve your goals and outcomes.
Therefore it is worth spending the time at the beginning of a project – such as working through Presenting Magically – to write down your personal reasons for reading this book, your r...

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