Helpful Resources for Presenters and Speakers

Is there a high-performing leader who has not bothered to hone and develop their presentation skills? I can't think of one.

So how do we do that? How do we develop our presentation skills? I believe there are three priorities:

1. Practice it. Actively seek opportunities to speak in public, to give presentations. My early presentations were definitely not good; in fact, I cringe when I remember them, but they were experiences to learn from.
2. Study it. Watch good communicators, live and in the flesh is better. I find watching people give messages week after week in my local church is a great way of reflecting on presentation techniques.
3. Practice it some more. Experiment. We never stop learning to improve.

I've compiled a number of resources:

Power Presenting Squidoo Lens
I created this lens as my own aggregated collection of sources and resources, which you might find helpful.

Power Presenting Book List
Compiled with the help of Amazon, this is my list of top references for influencing others through presentations.

Power Presentation Skills
John Edmonds and I coach corporate clients with this two-day programme providing the best coaching we know to help people to improve their influence through presentations.

Alltop Speaking
This is a branch of Guy Kawasaki's most useful aggregator site, Alltop, listing some the best blogs by top practitioners in the subject.

"Leaders need to present well."

Is there a high-performing leader who hasn't honed and developed their presentation skills? No. To be effective, leaders need to present well, if not powerfully.

Presenting, stakeholder engagement

Comments

[PatrickMayfield]

Hi Marthie. Thanks! I hope your workshops go stunningly well. The world needs powerful presentations with impact. Let me know how they go. Patrick

[Marthie]

Hey thanks for sharing. Appreciate this. I'm also taking up presentation and communication skills workshops here in Melbourne. Maybe your readers can join us there as well. Here's the link http://www.ripestuff.com I'd love to have more people come. Thanks!