Powerful Presenting For Leaders
David Thomas, global speaker and executive speaking coach, shows leaders how to handle their nerves when presenting, really connect with their audience and walk off feeling like a presentation rockstar!
https://www.CreatingPresentationRockstars.com
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 15 minutes
- Episodes
- 165
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
#125 Dead ducks don't quack
It's always a nervy time testing new material.
You don't want to be stuck delivering the same old stuff every time you present but it takes courage and a leap of faith to use brand new material.
In t…
#124 Most nervous day EVER as a presentation skills coach
Coaching commercial clients is fun and inspiring because they walk through the door keen to learn and improve.
But teaching kids round the kitchen table is a trial that most parents would rather subs…
#123 Speaking can be as much about validation as education
A successful senior manager in a major company spent the day with David yesterday at his house learning presentation skills.
Problem was, she was already speaking beautifully for the very narrow type…
#122 Variety is the spice of life, especially in speaking
Mel Robbins is a fantastic motivational speaker and David has both listened to her Audible podcast series and an interview with her.
She was asked about her presenting style and she said that she fil…
#121 When you get to the top, you need a different set of presentation skills
David appeared on the TV show, The Weakest Link, many years ago. He got through to the final three but astonishingly, one of the other two contestants didn't realise that the strategy that would WIN …
#120 Brag like mad and create a halo effect
In business, everyone brags about the key elements that make them stand out.
In David's case, he is forever going on about appearing on Oprah, having a #1 bestselling book and breaking a Guinness rec…
#119 Bite off more than you can handle and chew like hell
David heard the title to this podcast in a newsletter and thought it very apt for his progress through his speaking career.
In this episode, he explains why presentation skills progress only happens …
#118 Ten lessons I learned about presenting in 2021
In this episode, David goes through the top 10 lessons he has learned about presenting in 2021.
This is from the perspective of his own speaking having presented in person and remotely in over 50 cou…
#117 Grow a backbone and address the elephant in the room
As a presentation skills coach for leaders, David gets to work on specific talks with real material and over the years, he has worked on every kind of talk imaginable. He is not easily shocked or sur…
#116 That horrendous feeling you get when talking to an ice cold audience
Last week, David did two very different talks. Both had a really positive outcome but both also had polar opposite starts.
The first talk started with a lot of love for David in the room. Welcoming, …
#115 Always match your message to the audience
PLEASE NOTE: This episode talks very briefly about the abuse that David received at the hands of his mother and bizarrely, how it got him a major book deal resulting in a #1 bestselling book.
David h…
#114 If there's only one job, you have to be different to the rest
David recently coached a guy going for a major job interview. The company made various stipulations.
David told his client to ignore them and do something different.
In this episode, he explains how,…
#113 Pre-presentation is everything
You'd think that after 25 years of speaking, David would be drilled in the art of everything speaking, including the pre-presentation preparation, maybe the most important thing of all.
In this episo…
#112 A beautiful pillow and marginal gains
Marginal gains has been around for many a year now and is de rigeur in sport.
But the same can definitely be applied in presentation skills.
In this episode, David explains how applying marginal gain…
#111 JK Rowling or Jeffrey Archer?
JK Rowling used to grab spare minutes while her baby was asleep to write Harry Potter when she was a single Mum.
Jeffrey Archer writes from his home in Mallorca from a purpose-built writing room over…
#110 Managing interruptions
Managing interruptions is where every leader earns their presentation stripes.
Being able to handle hecklers (rare but happens), disruptors (less rare), objectors (relatively common) and people inter…
#109 Why are you even here today?
When leaders present, they fret over a ton of stuff like their voice projection, whether their slides are formatted properly and the engagement level of the audience.
Question is - should they be fre…
#108 Don't be an informer; become an interpreter
Information is cheap as chips. It is a commodity that we value little because of how easy it is to come by.
Delivering information makes you look cheap as chips.
What is valuable is INTERPRETING info…
#107 What is the price you are prepared to pay for your words to be valuable?
When your words are always the same, they have an equal value and that value is zero.
But the question is this - how far are you prepared to go to make your words valuable?
David did a talk recently …
#106 Perfectionism is a killer
David is launching an online business and best practice is to launch fast, fail fast and adapt. But not David. Nope, he has been spending too much time making all his material perfect.
In this episod…