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    Why Your Presentation Sucks - How to Lose the Stage Fright & Win: Presentation Skills, Public Speaking & Storytelling Technique
    Why Your Presentation Sucks - How to Lose the Stage Fright & Win: Presentation Skills, Public Speaking & Storytelling Technique
    Why Your Presentation Sucks - How to Lose the Stage Fright & Win: Presentation Skills, Public Speaking & Storytelling Technique
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    Why Your Presentation Sucks - How to Lose the Stage Fright & Win: Presentation Skills, Public Speaking & Storytelling Technique

    By Collin C. Young

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    Secrets, Tips and Confidence Techniques: Deliver Powerful Presentations in a Few Simple Steps
    ~Based on Academic Research~

    Develop powerful presentation techniques for any kind of public presentation: Many of us neglect the importance of storytelling in presentations. The book will introduce you to the most effective strategies and tips that can turn anyone into a persuasive and entertaining public speaker. After explaining what storytelling actually means in our lives and why it is essential to communication, this book will take you through a series of steps that can help you become a master storyteller and enchant your public.

    This book draws on academic research to introduce you to the most effective antidotes to stage fright: Since many people experience stage fright when they have to speak in front of an audience, this book also addresses this major aspect of public speaking and provides you with consistent advice that can help you get rid of this problem. Stage fright is a natural phenomenon and many people have intensively researched it and discovered means of dealing with it. It also clarifies why losing stage fright and winning your public go hand in hand.

    How To Lose the Stage Fright!

    • Causes of Stage Fright
    • How to Drastically Reduce Anxiety
    • What to Do When You Feel Nervous Before Your Presentation
    • 3 Infallible Proven Techniques To Lose the Stage Fright
    • Practical Bonus Tips

    How To Win the Audience!

    • Creating a WOW Story 
    • How to Impact the Audience Right from the Start 
    • Bonus Tips on Riveting Storytelling Technique
    • Keep the Public Hooked 
    • What to Do If You Lost the Audience 
    • How to Wrap Up Perfectly 

    After you read this book, you will have secrets, tips and confidence techniques to be a convincing and engaging public speaker and use infallible storytelling technique to keep your public hooked. A comprehensive overview of the most important factors that can make or break public speaking is accompanied by many practical tips and concrete examples to help you improve your storytelling technique in many kinds of situations. 

    This book is your ultimate guide to persuasive presentations, an irresistible persona, and powerful storytelling skills that can mesmerize your public without fail.

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCollin C. Young
    Release dateApr 5, 2016
    ISBN9781533735560
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      Why Your Presentation Sucks - How to Lose the Stage Fright & Win - Collin C. Young

      Public Speaking:

      Why Your Presentation Sucks

      How to Lose the Stage Fright

      & Win the Audience

      Storytelling Technique

      ~Based on Academic Research~

      Collin Clark Young

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without written permission from the author.

      Copyright © Collin C. Young

      All rights reserved.

      First Edition August, 2015

      ISBN-13: 978-1519584786

      ISBN-10: 1519584784

      Table of Contents

      Public Speaking: Why Your Presentation Sucks

      1| Introduction

      Why Should You Learn Storytelling Technique?

      2| Lose the Stage Fright!

      2.1. Causes of Stage Fright

      2.2. How to Drastically Reduce Anxiety

      2.3. What to Do When You Feel Nervous Before Your Presentation

      Three Infallible Proven Techniques

      Practical Bonus Tips

      3| Win the Audience!

      3.1. Creating a Wow Story

      3.2. How to Impact the Audience Right from the Start

      Bonus Tips on Riveting Storytelling Technique

      3.3. Keep the Public Hooked

      3.4. What to Do If You Lost the Audience

      3.5. How to Wrap Up Perfectly

      4| Conclusion

      "It usually takes me more than three weeks

      to prepare a good impromptu speech."

      – Mark Twain

      1| Introduction

      Why Should You Learn Storytelling Technique?

      Storytelling is part of our lives more than we picture. It is like breathing for most of us, part of our human essence. Just that we don’t often notice when we use it in our daily lives and we may think it’s something that comes up only in fiction. So far from the truth! Storytelling is closely connected with time and this is an essential aspect of our lives. Stories are organized temporally, just as our lives unreel chronologically. We often communicate with others through stories (many of them short bits of our daily incidents, others memories or broader autobiographical sequences).

      Apart from this psychological and existential function of storytelling that helps us structure our perception of time, define ourselves and shape our identities, storytelling also has a prominent communicational value. That may sound abstract and dry at first hearing, but let me assure you it is easier that you may think. Just picture yourself in a rather mundane situation in which a person has to transmit some information to a group of people. Let’s say a teacher must be both instructive and entertaining in order to master the class and be truly appreciated by pupils.

      ‘You have to write at least a half of page in German each day if you want to learn this language. You don’t learn a language only by attending my classes and doing your regular homework. I will check how much you develop your skills regularly and you’ll get bad grades unless you improve your German the right way. Now show me the last thing you wrote in German!’

      Can you picture the reaction of the pupils? Can you get there and see the look on their faces? Most of them are probably quite discouraged by the teacher’s attitude and discourse, although they also fear the person and the bad grades. This is likely to happen especially if the pupils are very young. Otherwise, the teacher may only ‘lose’ their audience and their class. Let’s not forget almost any kind of situation in which a person has to speak and perform in front of a group and persuade them implies a classic speaker-audience relationship alongside with another that is shaped by the context itself.

      Now what if someone goes in front of the pupils and says:

      ‘When I was very young, I used to have a passion for literature. I would read one book after another and devour the story, often fascinated and caught in the plot myself. I didn’t really like languages. My mother used to ask me what I wanted to do when I grow up: Are you going to become a writer yourself and write about a starving artist who falls for a rich fashion model? If so, please don’t forget to use me as a model for a minor character at least. Later I met a tutor who would ask me to write very short stories in German. We used to meet once a week for classes and she would give me a maxim, a sentence, or a quote each time and I had to write about one page and invent a story starting from those words and their meaning. One time I had to write about two thieves who meet on a train and share their experiences. I kind of hated German, believe me! When I heard that topic, my mind flew to two famous thieves in Greek mythology, Prometheus and Tantalus. One stole the fire from gods to give it to humans and the other stole the divine ambrosia. Both were harshly punished, of course. I got caught up in the narrative as I started to write about these two interesting figures and I even lost track I was writing in German. After I wrote a full page, I realized I liked telling stories in writing regardless of the language. The following week I showed my short story to my tutor and I didn’t know what to expect. She was baffled. She told me she had other people enlarge on that storyline, but she’d never heard anyone talk about

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