PODCAST SCRIPT - REHEARSING YOUR PRESENTATION

You’ve finished you planning. And your preparation. You have researched your audience. You know the points you intend to make and you have a theme that runs through your presentation. Now’s the time to rehearse.

Rehearsing your presentation makes you fully familiar with its words, content and structure. That familiarity is vital when you present. It will make you relaxed and confident. And, importantly, it allows you to appear very knowledgeable.

Audiences warm to a knowledgeable speaker. Rehearsing isn’t difficult. But it does require time and patience. The objective is to become familiar with your presentation. You don’t need to learn it line by line. What you do need is somewhere quiet. And private.

An empty office, perhaps. First things first. Sitting down, read your presentation – silently. Then read it again. Standing up, read your presentation – again, silently. Then read it a second time.

Once that’s done, read your presentation out aloud. And, then read it out aloud again. Read it again. But this time move around the room. Relax. Become animated. Point to your slides. Look at your pretend audience. If there’s a mirror in the room, take a look as you present.

That’s rehearsal. Aim to become fully familiar with your presentation, and you are ready to edit.