Sweaty palms. Awkward pauses. Audible sighs. Silent fear. Dead air.Public speaking can be anxiety-inducing in the best of circumstances, much less with your dog barking and your family screaming in the background. So, how can you play offense during your next high stakes, remote presentation rather than rebounding from your own “Boom Goes The Dynamite” moment? Follow the winning strategies in this playbook to help maneuver around anxiety toward an MVP worthy performance. Delivering a presentation from your home office can be challenging. But with all presentations and group speaking opportunities, the most important success factor is mastery of the topic and your deep understanding and passion regarding what you hope to convey to the audience. How you connect with your audience in an authentic and relevant manner is what matters most. If your goal is to educate, inspire and ignite positive action, with a great degree of integrity and benevolence, then you are already more than halfway toward delivering a meaningful presentation. What are you discovering as you work from home in terms of public speaking or presenting? Share your success stories and lessons learned with us. We welcome your insights here or by joining us on Twitter @karenmangia and @ValaAfshar. Consider using the hashtag #SpeakingFromHome and we will curate the best lessons on our collective social networks. This article was co-authored by Karen Mangia, vice president, customer and market insights, at Salesforce. Karen engages customers globally to discover new ways of creating success and growth together. From Executive Advisory Boards to strategic consulting engagements, her insights are central to Go-to-Market strategy, product development, marketing, and branding. In addition, Karen influences industry thought leadership in her role as Chair of the Customer Experience Council for The Conference Board. Formerly responsible for Insight Innovation at Cisco Systems, she led a global team with oversight into Customer Satisfaction & Experience, Diversity Business Practices, and Global Offset and Countertrade. Karen is also the author of ‘Success With Less’ and a TEDx speaker.
