Episode 50: THE Leadership Japan Series-Successful Public Speaking Part One
Intro:  Greg:  Konnichiwa and welcome to Episode 50 of THE Leadership Japan podcast.  I am your host in Tokyo, Dr. Greg Story, president of Dale Carnegie Training Japan, and much more importantly, you are a student of leadership, highly motivated to be the best in your business field.  If you enjoy the program then you might like to consider subscribing on iTunes.  Also, if you would like your own access to 102 years of the accumulated wisdom of Dale Carnegie training through free white-papers, guidebooks, reports, training videos, blogs, course information plus much more then go to japan.dalecarnegie.com.  Today, we are going to talk about successful public speaking.  This is a presentation to the Japan Market Expansion Competition (JMEC) audience on how to give a fantastic presentation.
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Greg:  Congratulations on getting your documents in on time.  That is a fantastic achievement.  No penalty points sounds good to me.  As you heard, now its crunch time because the best plan can be overtaken by the second best plan if the presentation of the plan is superior.  There are so many points in play for you.  What we’re going to do this morning with our presentation skills will make a big difference in the final results.  What you have in front of you is a manual, which is actually a manual for a full day of training on successful public speaking.  Obviously with the time we have available to us, we won’t be going through the whole manual. I’ll pull little pieces out of it and we’re going to have lots of opportunity for actual practice.  I’m going to talk today about giving presentations so that in your business career, as you are called upon to represent your organization or represent yourself, you’ll be able to do it in a professional manner.  The most immediate application of the training will be for the judging panel, for JMEC oral presentations.  I’ll talk about that in some detail as well as about some things you can think about for that.
So let us begin and we will look at some of the problems that come up in the research on oral presentation skills. Now this is a very interesting diagram.  When they looked at presentations, the vast majority of presentations of people listening to are thought to be boring.  And ones that aren’t boring make you plain sleepy and only 3% of business presentations were considered to be stimulating or interesting.  What that says is that you very simply can place yourself in the top 3% because the competition is so weak, and so impotent, basically.  It is worthwhile to think about that because you represent your organization in the first instance but you also represent brand you.  We made assumptions about your organization based on you and how you come across.  Now it could be an internal meeting, it could be a broader meeting, it could be a very large gathering.  The presentation skills don’t change that much in terms of what you need to know.  What we are going to look at today is how to be a person in the 3% group, rather than in the boring and sleepy group. 
So can we talk with confidence?  We are going to talk about fear of presenting in a moment, and structure and purpose of your presentation.  Your opening and closing are very critical.  We’re going to talk about why that is.  First impression, last impression, how that works, and then evidence.  What you say may or may not be true to the listener unless you have solid evidence to back it up.  So this is the agenda for today.  And again this is normally a whole day of training with lots and lots of role play and practice.  We’ll have a truncated version of that for today and still have some practice.
Before we begin, though, in pairs, discuss yourself.  Think about outstanding presenters.  Think about people you respect; people you see and think wow that was a great presentation.  What was the outstanding feature of their presentation?  So take