Authentic Journeys

Greet the audience. Thank the audience or others for coming. Introduce yourself. Generally mention your topic and a brief on your presentation (break up your presentation into three easy chunks). Dive in to your topic. For instance, "Good evening, team. Welcome to today's session. I am Jennifer Kumar from Authentic Journeys. I am here to work with your team on presentation skills in specific reference to giving demos to US clients and customers. As your team works with American counterparts, this session will give you the confidence to craft your messages in a convincing way, draw the participants in and keep their attention. In today's session, we will look at how to create an engaging outline, how to deliver this over virtual meeting platforms as an individual or a group, and the importance of preparing for and handling common objections. By learning how to take time to prepare for sessions, your outcomes will be more successful. Today, we will also analyze your current demos and learn where we can improve them to get better engagement. So, let's get started!"

Good question! While some people are born with the natural talent of presenting, especially in front of a crowd, we are all not so fortunate! Even many skills actors, performers and public speakers have learned tips and tricks on body language, voice projection, crowd stimulation, and other engagement strategies. Also, we have to know our audience. How we present the same topic to our peers or seniors or juniors would be different based on their understanding of that subject. It also depends on what we are presenting, and how we are presenting. Are we presenting on a stage? Or in a board room, sitting down? Are we presenting on the phone, only with our voice or on a video conference? How we present ourselves in different situations also has a skill to it.