{"id":388,"date":"2017-11-06T12:01:04","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T18:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/?p=388"},"modified":"2017-11-06T12:22:28","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T18:22:28","slug":"presentations-elevator-speech-fear-of-public-speaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/presentations-elevator-speech-fear-of-public-speaking\/","title":{"rendered":"Presentations, Elevator Speech, Fear of Public Speaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had the privilege of meeting Fred Miller when he spoke at a National Collegiate Conference for the Association of Information Technology Professionals.\u00a0 He had just written his first book,\u00a0<strong>No Sweat Public Speaking!<\/strong>.\u00a0 From his website (<a href=\"https:\/\/nosweatpublicspeaking.com\/\">https:\/\/nosweatpublicspeaking.com\/<\/a>) I see that he has written a few more:\u00a0 <strong>No Sweat Elevator Speech!, No Sweat! The Fear of Public Speaking.<\/strong>\u00a0 He emphasized keeping slides simple.\u00a0 He also showed how inserting a blank screen can immediately draw the attention back to the speaker.<\/p>\n<p>I would recommend grabbing a copy of one of his books, or better yet; go and see him in person if he is presenting at any conferences you are attending.\u00a0 At the very least, follow him on Twitter, and catch his videos on his website and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/fredemiller\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube Channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Check out his free <a href=\"https:\/\/nosweatpublicspeaking.com\/go\/freespeakerstemplate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">speaker&#8217;s template mindmap<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Check out his <a href=\"https:\/\/nosweatpublicspeaking.com\/go\/freeelevatorspeechtemplate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">free template for creating an Elevator Speech<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/render.bitstrips.com\/v2\/cpanel\/a517c0fb-4ebc-4c05-9047-d6ede2fac127-37db42d9-fcfe-4f2b-8cd3-ef52c97064e5-v1.png?transparent=1&amp;palette=1\" width=\"196\" height=\"196\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had the privilege of meeting Fred Miller when he spoke at a National Collegiate Conference for the Association of Information Technology Professionals.\u00a0 He had just written his first book,\u00a0No Sweat Public Speaking!.\u00a0 From his website (https:\/\/nosweatpublicspeaking.com\/) I see that he has written a few more:\u00a0 No Sweat Elevator Speech!, No Sweat! The Fear of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[98,99,97],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":392,"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions\/392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.perceptivepetal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}