Great tips on telling your story in this video with NPR’s  Scott Simon.  There are takeaways here for any presenter delivering presentations via video webcast or audio webinar.

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Want to personalize your webcast delivery?

Ken Molay at WSuccess recently shared this webinar presentation tip that resonated with us:

“Speak to the Individual, Not the Crowd”.

Rather than use phrases like “can anyone in our audience tell me ….” speaker directly to each listener “can you tell me …”.

This goes a long way toward personalizing your delivery and leaving your listeners with a more personal experience.

Thanks for the great tip Ken.

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As part of our effort to bring a repeatable, scientific methodology to our web seminars we have been reading alot of literature on presentation development .

Currently I’m reading Doug Stevenson’s Story Theater Method; Strategic Storytelling in Business. This is a guidebook that shows how to mine your own life stories to help you connect with an audience.

Right away, Doug makes this point:

The key to becoming an effective speaker is to be authentic. The goal is not to change who you are, it’s to remain true to who you are. To do otherwise is to lose your power. Your power lies in your unique personality and style.

Doug goes on to talk about how actors connect IN to connect OUT to an audience. They go inward to pull from their own reservoir of emotions and experiences. If they do this well, they bring the character to life and the audience connects to them.

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