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    Speaking for Presentations
    Speaking for Presentations
    Speaking for Presentations
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    Speaking for Presentations

    By Joe Cron

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    Joe Cron brings a unique and impressive combination of skills to the subject of presentational speaking. Throughout a twenty-five year career in the quality field, presentations have been commonplace for Joe, with design reviews, training sessions, monthly status reports, and many other types of material conveyed to audiences large and small. In the realm of vocal performance, Joe has a wealth of experience, appearing on stage in over fifty theatrical productions. He has formal training in voice and diction, acting, interpretative reading, and broadcasting. Other voice work has included a stint with his own regular radio disc jockey show and a wide variety of voiceover work, singing, and additional types of performing. This combination of extensive vocal experience and business presentation acumen gives Joe a uniquely powerful perspective on effective speaking.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLardin Press
    Release dateJan 20, 2013
    ISBN9781301266876
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      Speaking for Presentations - Joe Cron

      Introduction

      Have you ever sat through a boring presentation?

      Yeah, silly question. Boring presentations are so legendary that we are far more likely to comment to others when we sit through one that was not boring. At one time or another, everyone has left a meeting room remarking to someone else, Hey, that wasn’t too bad, a testament to the given expectation that the presentation was going to be awful. Sad state of affairs, eh?

      While it might seem like a hopeful goal that people would walk out of your presentations making that comment, the far better goal is that they won’t even go into it expecting it to be awful. That’s more like what we’re shooting for here.

      Granted, the content of your presentation has a lot to do with that. So does the subject matter, the circumstances (are people required to attend, or did they come of their own volition?), and a variety of other factors. I wish I could tackle all of those, but that’s a bit beyond the scope of this essay. What I am focused on here is one of the tools that will help you achieve success in your presentations: effective speaking.

      Speaking skills will allow you to enhance situations that play to your strengths and minimize obstacles that don’t. Speaking skills build your professional reputation. Perhaps best of all, they make things easier for you. They help people hear and understand you, and even better, believe you.

      That’s right. You can actually increase the trust and acceptance of the information you are presenting simply by increasing your confidence and impact as a speaker. Except for some large lectures, the vast majority of business presentations include a question and answer session, and in smaller meetings, Q&A is more or less assumed to be ongoing throughout the presentation. Greater believability means fewer questions, especially frivolous ones, and a shorter time commitment, along with increased professional respect.

      My Credentials

      Why should you pay any attention to me or my advice? I have a unique background that has included a combination of lots of public speaking and performing, as well as many years of work in a business environment.

      I have appeared on stage in over fifty theatrical productions, many at the professional level. I also have strong academic training in voice and diction and other related disciplines, have spent some time working on-air on my own regular radio disc jockey show, and have done a variety of voiceover work and other types of vocal performing.

      On the business side, I have worked in the quality field for roughly twenty-five years, mostly in engineering and supervision. Lots of presentations. Design reviews, training sessions, monthly status reports, and the like. My vocal training and experience has helped me immensely in the impact and effectiveness my presentations have, and I’m confident the combination of vocal and business experience provides me with a particularly appropriate perspective on the subject at hand.

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