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during college days, that benefited me in my career and overall business.

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When you deliver a public presentation or participate in an interview, even though

you are doing the talking and answering questions…it’s not about you, it’s always
about the audience – focus on them.

Make your presentation interactive, visuals are your friend but do not become a
slave of visual aids, avoid reading from the slides or handouts too frequently. Tell
them a relevant story instead, one that you know by heart.

‘Use repetition to make sure the key message gets delivered and is remembered
long after your presentation.’

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1 KNOW YOUR AUDIENCE

You might have heard it thousands of times before, but let me tell you it is THAT
important. If you know your audience you can plan on your topic, dress code,
avoid saying or doing something that might be offensive depending on the cultural
background of the people listening to you.

I wish I could say “Just be yourself,” but that is not the best advice especially if
being yourself drives people away from the very message you are trying to pass.

I am not saying try to impersonate your favorite actor/actress. The idea is to make
sure you do not come off as insensitive or out of place. Being yourself is not about
disregarding other people’s values, space or beliefs.

Take some time before your presentation to learn about your audience, who they
are, what are their expectations, their values, if possible their language (greeting
them in their own language is a tremendous icebreaking technique), this will allow
you to become a lot more than just the guy who came to speak about something.

KNOW
YOUR
AUDIENCE

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2 RELEVANT TOPIC SELECTION AND RESEARCH

If you want people’s attention in listening to what you are saying, despite all the
distractions available today, you better make sure that whatever you are about to
present is uniquely enticing, backed by experience or extensive research.
Otherwise, why should they give you their valuable time and attention?

In the digital world, blogging or news websites, you often will hear “Content is
King.” Well, that is also a crucial point in the physical world. Moreover, the means
and tools you use to deliver that content count as much.

Numbers, everyone likes to hear about numbers. If you do your due diligence, you
should come up with some statistics on the topic (past cases, growth percentage,
and trends for the future).

RELEVANT
TOPIC
SELECTION
AND
RESEARCH

Give credit where credit is due. If you have used research data from some book,
website or blog mention it, even if you have to reference your mentor’s teachings
it is still a good thing to do. In case you are wondering, no it does not make you
look weak or less knowledgeable.

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3 FOCUS ON THE KEY MESSAGE YOU WANT TO

LEAVE WITH THEM

One thing that happens a lot is when you select your topic, do your research and
get your facts right, then you are not sure how you are going to deliver the key
message to your audience, because there is just too much to be said.

What I usually do is, I select 3 critical words or short sentences that I want to
share with my audience and build the discussion from there. If I manage to find a
famous quote that summarizes the key messages, then I use it.

Remember that your audience will not remember everything that you have to say,
they will remember the most impactful messages, so please do your best to avoid
apologies, late introductions, or anything like that.

One example is, for this ebook, I opened it with these three sentences for you to
focus on (and now, I am taking the chance to repeat them):

‘When you deliver a public presentation or participate in an interview, even though you
are doing the talking and answering questions…it’s not about you, it’s always about the
audience – focus on them.’

‘Make your presentation interactive, visuls are your friend but do not become a slave of
visual aids, avoid reading from the slides or handouts too frequently. Tell them a relevant
story instead, one that you know by heart.’

‘Use repetition to make sure the key message gets delivered and is remembered long
after your presentation.’

FOCUS ON
THE KEY
MESSAGE
YOU WANT
TO LEAVE
WITH THEM

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4 BREAK THE ICE – GET THE PUBLIC TO PAY

ATTENTION TO YOU
The Urban Dictionary’s top definitions for “breaking the ice” are:

• Attempt to escape from an awkward situation.

• Say something in a silent moment.

• Do something to win the appreciation of people you don’t know.

It is essential to try to get your audience to link with you from the beginning of your
presentation, and as a good practice, you should have them redirected to your
speech using this technique whenever you feel like their attention is misplaced.

Breaking the ice at the right moment coupled with excellent body language can
allow you to command the stage and win your audience undivided attention.

As I mentioned before, you can do something as simple as greeting your audience in

their local language if you are overseas or, provided you have some knack for it, tell
a good joke. We must all have a good one in our pocket, if not at least a good story
that can relate to the topic at hand perhaps.

If you are using a slideshow to deliver your presentation and you are not confident
in your jokes, you can search for some tricks, add them to your slideshow or
material, and just read it. Please remember to consider your audience values here,
do not tell a joke about something that they are sensitive about (leader, family
members, religious beliefs, and tradition).

BREAK THE
ICE – GET
THE PUBLIC
TO PAY
ATTENTION
TO YOU

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5 MAKE IT AN INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCE

One critical aspect of delivering public speeches, presenting slideshows,
participating in an interview or promoting a product is that it is not about you
even and when you are talking about you it’s about the Audience, so make sure
you involve them.

There are multiple ways to involve your audience, let me list a few for your
reference:

• Getting them to introduce themselves in the beginning (if you can manage)
and assure them that it’s ok to interrupt with questions

• Answering their questions in a politely and asking if anyone else shares a

similar concern (this goes a long way to show that you care)

• It would help if you also asked questions (not too complicated, you don’t want
to embarrass anyone)

• Have some fun activities planned out

• Have a live demo of whatever you are presenting (we are visual creatures)

• Pause for a moment and look at them (this will make them look at you to see
what’s happening)

• Play an exciting video and ask for comments, then summarize with your own

There are many more ideas to have your audience engaged during your
presentation, and we should explore as many of them as possible to ensure that
today’s “distraction syndrome” does not block your message from coming across
to your audience.

MAKE IT AN
INTERACTIVE
EXPERIENCE

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6 TELL STORIES

A list of public speaking tips would not be reasonable if “Telling Stories” was not
one of the points in it. We have been telling and hearing stories for ages, and we
love stories.

Being able to tell stories is an essential skill to have if you want to become a
fantastic speaker or coach even to lead people. You can influence thousands,
millions, even billions of people with stories; you can move masses, build up a
profitable business and also get respect and prestige by telling compelling
stories.

TELL STORIES

Think about it: how many people watch TV shows, Movies (think the Avengers,
or Gladiator, or any one of your favorite movies), Telenovelas, Japanese Anime,
read romances, blogs, cartoons, Japanese manga, and many other media. All are
means of telling a story, which has always been successful.

Compelling stories are capable of making you lose track of time, and when we
find one we want more, we get sad when it ends, and sometimes we try to
emulate whatever piece of wisdom we get from them.

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What I am trying to say here is that your ability to tell stories, to choose the
right one for your specific presentation and aligning it with your topic is a
powerful asset.

You can tell the story of the person, product, and piece of technology, science
fact, and curiosity you are sharing, or you can tell a story that can serve as a
metaphor to your intended message.

Here’s an Example to help you sort out what We have just discussed

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Which one
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structure
the data
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and Closing included in both? make an with a close with a
Lines Opening quote and live Demo?
with a call to
relevant Action?
story?
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Strategy their local language joke game to
liven up the
spirits
How to Prepare some questions Prepare Competitio Include a
make it to ask, get feedback and some games n and polemic
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it discussion

Top relevant One of your audience’s Your Any Stories of

stories I can stories / Any that is backstory inspiring Speakers
use relevant to the topic story that and
builds the contributor
right s in the
emotion field of
discussion

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WHO IS EMIDIO AND WHAT HAS HE BEEN UP TO?

• My relevant Experience in the Corporate World

I am a uniquely skilled professional in several areas, I completed a 5-year

Engineering Honors Degree on IT and Telecommunications, right after worked
as an application and software engineer at the world's best ICT providing
company, Huawei Technologies, for about 2 years and got promoted to work a
Service Delivery and Project Manager.

In my time as an SDM for Huawei Technologies, I managed large projects, teams,

contractors, supported the sales team with bidding and won over 200 million
contracts to the company. My peers included Engineers, Specialists, Senior
Managers, Executive Head of Departments from other multinationals, and the
list went on, as my years of experience and projects complexity grew.

I am still working as a Project Manager, now in the banking industry, for one of
the biggest European banks. So, the experience I have accumulated in all these
years, how I managed to climb to the ranks of managers in 2 of the world's
biggest multinational companies.

• Becoming a Key Note Speaker & Improving my Public Speaking Skills

I have been delivering speeches to large audiences from the age of 16, in
religious congregations, then moved to become the top performer during my
college days when it came to presentation skills, and in my first job those skills
helped me get quick promotions, and opportunities to present the solutions,
products, and services to our customer both domestic and abroad.

Being experienced in delivering speeches (both in my native language

Portuguese, as well as in English) is a rare and really sought-after skill for
multinational companies that come to do business in this country. Additionally,
it landed my opportunities such as traveling to China to learn about the latest
solutions Huawei was developing (4.5G, and 5G, Modular Data Centers, etc.),
and present them to a VIP delegation from my country that was visiting China.

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I have also been appointed as the Key Note speaker, representing my company
to deliver a speech in the country's first and largest digital forum, where most
companies would bring their specialists from abroad, have them give speeches
in English and use near real-time translation systems to the audience. Well,
imagine if you had an engineer, technology enthusiast, who loves to speak about
it, and has experience delivering speeches to large audiences? That's right, they
have asked me to do it, and that was a terrific experience to increase my
visibility as an expert as well.

I am not saying all this to brag or anything! I want you to know that the person
behind the blog posts and products that will be coming in the future is a real
person, who struggled to learn and master the very skills that helped him
succeed as a student, as an employee, as a manager and most importantly as a
person - a family man.

• Becoming an Entrepreneur - Building my Online Business

The things I love the most doing are reading, learning and absorbing new things,
sharing that with others, seeing how it helps them achieve their own personal
objectives, and overcome their struggles. I learn, every day, about virtually
anything that piques my interest, and that has allowed me to become the type of
person who usually has something to share with others.

Having seen that, and wanting to help as many people as I can, I decided to use
this side of mine, of wanting to share, challenging myself to learn more and
more, and keep sharing...to help others.

I am talking about people like You, who read this far looking for ways in which I
can help to make you become a confident, engaging, and resourceful speaker. Or,
perhaps you want to become a great leader, appreciated by his staff and peers
or, alternatively, you want to become your own boss, by launching a successful
online business, where you share with others that which makes you unique, that
which they are looking for, and you can provide.

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