How To Develop Great Presentation Skills - Visualization - Part 1

To become a great presenter, one must learn the technique of visualization. The thought process which is concerned with seeing yourself in your mind's eye performing at your optimum level is known as visualization. The most important aspect of this is "mental practice". Mental practice involves going over and over in your head some important event and combining it with as many senses as you can, especially mental imagery. Professional sports people of all types use it to keep their minds focused on critical competitions, tournaments, and potential record breaking opportunities, and away from inner tension, rivalries, possible failure, and accidents. It works well in any area of your life when you want to raise yourself up to your maximum potential.

Professional mental practice techniques can be internally or externally focused. When you focus externally you imagine being in an audience watching yourself perform. When you focus internally, as described previously, you place yourself in the imagined event and become the performer rather than the audience. When you start practicing this technique you can chose to either focus method.

Professional mental practice can build a total feeling of invincibility, change your attitude and boost your confidence.

External Mental Practice

The best and probably the most effective mental practice technique is called "top performance mental practice". To start with, sports people compile a list of attributes they associate with top performance in their own particular field. Top performance for a professional golfer, for instance, would probably include perfect swing, accurate putting, terrific concentration as well as mental focus, self confident attitude and a feeling of being totally ready to play.

For you, the upcoming great presenter, it would no doubt include upright and confident body language, a sincere authoritative and powerful voice, terrific mastery of your subject, a self confident attitude and feeling of totally "rehearsed" and ready to go.

Now you need to compose a very detailed imaginary picture in your head, Thin back to a moment in your own history when you actually, despite all your prior misgivings, did well at a presentation or meeting. If you really can't recall such an occasion, make it up! Invent how you think such a presentation would have been! Remember, your subconscious mind does not know the difference between real and imagined events. So go ahead and imagine something terrific! The visualization process requires reflecting on this real or imagined top performance, particularly the characteristics and behaviours which make it your best performance.

I will give you detailed instructions on how to embark on external mental practice in the next article. I would also discuss Internal Mental Techniques in subsequent articles.

The Author of this article is an experienced presenter and a champion story teller. He has immense interest in topics on public speaking, leadership, the art of negotiation, internet marketing strategies, investing and personal success

This following article is adapted/extension from/of his new presentation program: "How to Develop Great Presentation Skills".

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