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#1: Acknowledge and reframe
- Accept nerves are normal
- See it as a conversation
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#2: Focus on the audience
- Place attention on audience
- What important is how you make the audience feel
- #3: Don't try to be perfect
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#4: Stick to the point
- Tell what audience needs to know
- Less is always more
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#5: See the opportunity
- Not as a performance to be judged
- An opportunity to help audience
- #6: Anchor yourself
- #7: Practice makes perfect
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#8: Tell stories
- well-structured
- relevant
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#9: Be colorful and creative
- Well-chosen images
- Make your message more memorable
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#10: Involve your audience
- Ask questions
- Get audience talk to each other
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#11: Use videos and props
- Short, relevant and compelling videos
- Can evoke emotions and imagination
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#12: Use your voice
- Vary your pitch, tone, volume and peace
- Pause before/after important statement
- #13: Stay in present
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#14: Make friends with the audience
- Find things you have in common
- Smile,empathise, listen and ask questions
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#15: Know your stuff
- Do research
- Speak with gravitas, authority and credibility.
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#16: Be consistent
- Speak consistently with audience's background,
experiences, values, beliefs and emotions
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#17: Be generous
- Be generous with passion, energy,
undivided attention, smile and eye contact
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#18: Compare and contrast
- Make it clear how your proposal is better
- Magnify the differences
- Accentuate the contrast
- #19: Give them a good reason
- #20: Give them hope