The Naked Presenter–I can see your underwear!

I see London, I see France, I see your underpants!

You’ve been given the advice to calm your nerves before speaking to “imagine your audience naked.”  Why not create a presentation where everyone is naked–being authentically you.  Garr Reynolds in his book The Naked Presenter encourages us to create relationships with the audience like hadakasukiai (everyone naked and on the same level with no ranks).

In Reynolds’ book The Naked Presenter, he clearly teaches through simple steps how to present with impact.

1. Speak to your audience as in a conversation.  Get rid of the TV shopping approach.
2. Give them a “Why?’ to begin your presentation.  For those of you who are familiar with Bernice McCarthy’s 4-Mat method, this is the first component to reaching of your whole audience.
3. Zen.  Be here.  Right now.
4. Show your passion.  I call this State Elicitation.  If you want your audience to have a change of state, you have to embody that state.
5. Present yourself.  In the early age of PCs, I remember my teacher saying WYSIWYG.  What You See Is What You Get.  Your audience looks for that in you.  Additionally, your sound.  Only 7% of communication is through words.  38% is through tonality (how you say it).  55% is your physiology.
6. Punch!  Use storytelling to bring punch to your presentation.  I remember a time when I used storytelling in a …

The Naked Presenter teaches familiar concepts in a clear way.  Reynolds focuses on the presentation rather than hiding behind wordy PowerPoint and demonstrates how to keep those simple as well (check out Zen Presentation).

If you want to become an authentic presenter, get The Naked Presenter.  And practice the techniques by speaking every chance you get.

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