Presentations Too Comfortable? -- It Is Time To Take Some Risks

Long ago I heard speakers who advocated, "Have one accent and just acquisition altered audiences." Today's audiences, however, are assured added from us. Even if you accept a tested, answerable champ of a presentation, it is time to ask yourself if you are too comfortable. It is apparently time to try something new and force yourself to yield some risks.
It is OK to accept a characteristic appearance of your own, but it is aswell a growing acquaintance to footfall out of our abundance area and try something new. Ask yourself the afterward questions:
Do I consistently use the aforementioned techniques?
Do I usually acquaint the aforementioned stories?
Do I plan my presentations afterward a defined structure?
If you answered "yes" to any or all of the aloft questions, I advance that it is time for you to yield some risks.
Try some alien techniques. We are all told to absorb the audience. Many speakers feel that allurement for a appearance of easily is abundant involvement. Not so. Anticipate about able means to move participants to activity and interaction.
One apostle I apperceive easily out a mini-quiz on her affair as humans access the room, and again starts her presentation by accepting humans allotment their answers with anniversary added and the accomplished group.
Another apostle who stresses the accent of "asking" starts by allurement anybody to yield out a dollar bill and again goes about accession them. If anyone alone has a five, ten, or twenty, he says "That's OK. No problem." He does acknowledgment the money afterwards authoritative the point that if "one asks, one receives."
Added presenters accept participants sing forth or carol a byword in unison.
Being a exercise adviser who aswell speaks about creativity, I will generally alpha a affair with aerobic music and again get anybody up assimilate his/her anxiety to amplitude --following with the citation by Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The animal apperception already continued to a new abstraction never goes aback to its aboriginal dimensions."
Develop some new stories. Yes, I apperceive that we all accept able belief that accept gotten bigger and bigger with the cogent and retelling, but it is time to advance some cast new belief too. I don't advance alteration everything, but if you can add one new adventure for anniversary presentation, you will accumulate them beginning and agitative for both you and the audience.
Change your pre-planning of presentation structure.I apperceive I consistently accent the accent of preparation. I am not alteration my apperception about preparing. I am suggesting that you adapt in a altered way. If you accept consistently acclimated the adjustment of "Tell them what you are traveling to acquaint them; acquaint them; and again acquaint them what you told them," anticipate of means you can about-face that blueprint on its side. Or, if you await aloft outlines including the three a lot of important points, try the chargeless affiliation adjustment of apperception mapping or clustering.
So, yield some risks. Try something new and fresh. You will acquisition that you, your presentations, and your audiences will become active with enthusiasm. Accept fun!