Do You Plan When To Visualize Before Your Presentation?

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The most important characteristics of performers and achievers with relevant and relatable stories and examples to bring out your authentic gifts, talents, abilities, and skills.

Do You Plan When To Visualize Before Your Presentation?

1.  Visualize your presentation environment

     Know your opening (word for word)

     What are the points of your presentation and tone?

     Make eye contact and when not to make eye contact     

     Notice your breathing, pace, pitch, and inflection 

     When to take questions and how many?

     Know your closing (word for word)

     How do we fit for the both of us to be better off?    

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Transcript

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I'm Performers and Achievers. Welcome to Performers and Achievers Daily with me, Raj Gavrulla. I'll continue my series on planning when you visualize. And so in this series, I'll talk about you delivering a presentation or you giving a presentation, whatever kind of presentation that may be. There's all types of presentations, right? So let's say you're at your place of work, your organization, your business, where you work, who you work for, and you're presenting to people on your team in your organization. It can be about anything. Why should we pursue this direction over this direction? Or it could be about some uh newfound or knowledge or learning, whatever it may be, or it could be that you're presenting and you're presenting to a customer or a client, and you're talking about additional services, programs, again, whatever that may be, or it could be you're presenting to a prospect, and therefore your presentation is to a prospect, they're going to decide to determine which direction that they are looking to go, that they want to go and talk with you about it, see how that would fit in with each other, so that both are better off, or maybe it's that they're looking to fund you and your organization or business, and so that's obviously another kind of presentation. So there's lots of different types of presentations, or it could be you're playing sports and you're presenting to your coaches and teammates about something, whatever it may be, or to your players. Uh, that type of presentation is a little different, right? It's not you necessarily standing in front of the room and presenting and maybe having a PowerPoint or something of that effect, or an easel or a flip chart, whatever it may be. Again, it could be lots of ways that the environment around the room is very important. So when you visualize, remember the key points, keep in mind is when you visualize your stationary, whether or not you're visualizing in a way that you're projecting the presentation, your presentation in the future, or whether you're actually in the presentation, you visualize. Now this is going to be a little different, so pay attention and learn to like keep the key points in mind. So when you're visualizing and you're at home, let's say, let's say you're at your office, you're in a meeting room, there's no one there. This is your planned visualization. So the first thing you're going to do as you visualize is you're going to know your opening of your presentation and the closing of your presentation. In other words, you have memorized this or rehearsed this or know this material so much that you have a specific opening and a specific closing. And if you want to call it memorization, you can, but it's really more than that. However, you know the opening and the closing, word for word. Then you visualize, you say it those word for word. Okay, the opening, and you visualize the environment you're in. Who's going to be there? What's it going to be like? How's the room structure? Where are they being seated? There's lots of different ways people are seated, so it's a little good to know, or at least be able to uh accommodate that. And then obviously, who will be there? And again, a lot of times you don't know who will be there, or you'll know some of the people there and some of the people you've never met. You don't know them. However, the people in the audience they may or may not know that. And so that's another thing that you visualize. You visualize yourself, and again, you're still, and you visualize yourself, making eye contact one person at a time, not looking at the back of the room, not looking down at your feet, looking at one person at a time, and you visualize this, and you visualize you looking at somebody, and they're looking right back at you, and they're connecting with you, they're congruent with you, and then you so you don't want to make them feel uncomfortable. You start and look and look at someone else, and you look at them, and they don't make eye contact with you, they dart their eyes down, they put their head down, maybe, and you can tell that they're just either a little uncomfortable or that just may be the way they are. However, then you change and look to someone else who is making eye contact with you, so that the one that's not making eye contact with you or has taken away that, it doesn't deter you in your presentation. So you're visualizing this in the room, you're visualizing the amount of time that you know it's for the presentation, and you should know in advance how much time because people have their times, and most likely you're not presenting unless there's something to be presented, right? That's something that they like, uh, they need, they want, they're interested in, or they are curious about, or want to learn more about, etc. And then you visualize the points, the learning points, or the persuasive points, or the points you're making. What are the exam? What are the points? Okay, is it one point? Is it two points? Is it three points? Is it seven points? How many ever you have in your presentation? And then you've then obviously you've been working on your material and stuff and gathered it, and you did your research, and you have examples, and for you, those of you who are uh dependent upon the kind of presentation, storytelling, and so this is all very important to visualize, and then lastly, you visualize your closing, and then you visualize what it is that you do afterwards. Will you take someone's hand and sit down? Will you shake someone's hand and stay on the stage or in front of the room, or will you shake no one's hand and do something else? In a presentation, usually people like to have some questions being asked. So visualize yourself answering questions. However, have them and have you say, Well, I'll take a few questions right now. If anyone has one or two, three, no more than no more than, let's say, no more than two. And do that before your close. Because if you do it after your close, then you're taken away from your presentation. You're taken away from someone who you know may try to hijack the presentation without knowing they're trying to hijack it, and that's your visualization. Now, as you visualize, you're gonna notice the emotions and the feelings coming up in your body, the thoughts or the thinking that's coming up, and by being aware, noticing them, recognizing them, then you'll see as you visualize and you feel those, that you'll be able to be more comfortable as your material is more solid, and your delivery is solid, and the words you choose, the way you say it, the way you move, your eye contact, your body language, your tone of voice, all of these are very important. No one's expecting you to be an expert who speaks professionally. No one's expecting you to be a professional actor or professional actress, unless, of course, that's your profession. This is more of a presentation for someone who is not an expert who speaks professionally, or a professional speaker, or professional actor, or professional actress. However, professional speakers, experts who speak professionally, professional actors, professional actresses, they too use visualization. They just another way, and it's similar to what you're doing, however, it's got a little more of visualization as far as all the the uh emotions, the feelings, the thoughts, the thinking, uh, the mood, the mindset, uh the way you move the audience or the client or the way you have a call to action. The way you move someone or a group of people. And then so you know, obviously we've got your your knowing mind, wisdom, we got your thinking mind going, and then of course breathing. Visualize yourself breathing. You have that time in between sentences, maybe in between specific words, and that'll slow down the time so you don't have the performance anxiety or delivery anxiety or speaking anxiety and nervousness or breathing. And then again, visualize you connecting with the audience. How are you making them feel? And are you showing them that you have something for them to listen to to learn about so that you can continue to see how we are a fit for the both of us to be better off. And that's how you visualize for a presentation. You can go back through. I won't go back through and summarize this, however, it's very important so that you can take the stress off of you, you can take the anxiety, the nervousness off of you, and you stop putting so much pressure on you before your presentation. And so, this is one way to prepare now. During the presentation, and most likely this won't happen because presentations are pretty dynamic. There's not a really a pause or a stop in a presentation unless you're doing a longer presentation, and then obviously, then you can use visualization in another way. In sports, you can visualize the way we are for a presentation, or you can visualize while you're actually playing the sport, it's just done differently, and so that's important. Now, after this visualization that you have planned, and again, you're welcome to reach out to me, contact me to help and support you with visualization, which I do and I'm good at. We can do it on Zoom or we can do it somewhere else in person. And so here's the whole purpose of this visualization. This visualization, as your presentation goes along, is sort of like you telling someone to meet you, let's say, in uh Greenville, South Carolina. Well, I'm in Greer, South Carolina, so this area, Greenville area, Greer area, South Carolina. You got somebody coming from New York, someone coming from California, you have someone coming from Texas, you've got someone coming from Illinois, you got someone coming from Florida, right? All of them are going towards Greenville. A couple of them been there before, some of them never been to Greenville. And so, what's happening here is that you're having a map in your visualization, and that's the map that you're visualizing in your presentation. So, similar to that, if you were in New York, California, Texas, Florida, Illinois, trying to come to Greenville, South Carolina. Okay, you'd visualize though you and see like, okay, this is where I'm going. This is okay. And eventually you get to Greenville, whether or not you've been to Greenville or not. And let's say you have. Well, things have look a little different now. There's, yeah, I remember passing through that city before I got to Greenville, etc. Well, your presentation is similar to that. You're just gonna be going along in your presentation, you're gonna come in, you'll be prepared, you'll be seated, or standing, or networking before your presentation. It really depends on you. You can visualize that as well. Then your name gets called up, and here you go. You're going up to the front, you visualize that, and then you're presenting. Then you visualize presenting. You visualize the room, obviously, and make eye contact. All of that occurs. And as you go, as you go, as you go, eventually you get to the destination. However, in most presentations, the destination is not the end destination, it's just a destination to see how we fit and how to make the both of us better off. That's what I'm doing for you today. We're visualizing your presentation. If you like my podcast, like it. For those of you who are interested in my private, personal, professional, confidential programs and services, services and programs, visit my website, RajGavrulla.com. 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