The Introverted Presenter: Ten Steps for Preparing and Delivering Successful Presentations

Introduction

If you bought this book for a presentation you need to give right now, go straight to Chapter 13 and come back here when it’s over.

For the rest of us who have more time, read on.

There are those naturals. They always get asked to speak because they love it. Because they love it, they seek it, and because they seek it, they become better at it.

Then there are the rest of us. We hate the spotlight and run away from it. We never get asked because we never volunteer. We never volunteer because we don’t like it. So, we never improve.

We just get very good at procrastination.

We put off speaking, and we put off anything about presenting. We put off writing the speech, we put off preparing the slides, and we put off rehearsals. And that ...