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High-Level Public Speaking Training on Advanced Presentation Skills

Hold onto your hat - these are some super-sophisticated advanced techniques:

Stage Anchoring:
This highly advanced staging technique is rarely taught in any public speaking training.

Stage anchoring means pre-designating specific places on the stage where you will attach certain moods or meaning.

For example, you may have a spot on the stage where you'll stand to deliver most of your presentation, another spot where you'll use humor, and another spot on the stage where you'll reveal secrets.

You'd only use humor "on the humor spot" and that conditions the audience to expect humor as you move to that location. This is a highly sophisticated method of controlling the mood of your group.

The 4-Mat Technique:
This is a sophisticated presentation skills technique that covers the 4 major ways that people absorb information.

Break your topic into 4 sections in this order: Why this topic is important, facts data and statistics on your topic, how your audience can use the info you're covering, and finally go into "what if" scenarios and ask the group if they have any questions.

The order and flow is "why, what, how, what if". Extremely powerful.

Memory Maps:
It's very powerful if you can deliver a presentation without PowerPoint and without any notes whatsoever. People are very impressed when presenters can get up and do an entire presentation without any handouts or notes.

Take each major section of your presentation and assemble a "memory map" in your mind. Create a specific and distinct picture for each section and visualize those pictures in an orderly collage in your mind that you can easily refer to.

The more unusual the pictures, the more easily you'll remember them.

The "Inevitable Conclusion Presentation":
If you want to persuade or sell when you do public speaking, it's most powerful if your audience decides by themselves to take the action you want them to take.

Rather than hammer them with why you want them to take the action you desire, simply present them with an overwhelming mountain of evidence proving why this action is the right action to take.

Because they decide in their own mind to take that action you don't have to "sell them".

Handling Hostile Questions:
First of all, never cater to or spend time on the sour-grapes person. They're just a waste of your time.

Here's 2 ways to handle the hostile questioner:

1. Ignore them.
You're not under any obligation to answer their question.

2. Shut them down:
Say "I won't be taking questions like that during my presentation so you can see me later if you want to talk about that more." The group will side with you because they will see this hostile person as disruptive. After your talk you can still put them off and tell them to email you or call you later which they most likely will never do. Be polite but firm.