Presentation Skills: Opening your presentation with impact

Knowing how to open is not only the most important presentation skill, it's also the single most effective way to eliminate fear of public speaking. For those of you who don't have a lot of time or who don't want to scroll down this entire page, let's cut right to the chase and look at why you should buy this course. It's because knowing how to open a presentation or speech powerfully and memorably is the most important presentation skill you can have.

Because if you get the Opening wrong, the structure, the slide deck, the carefully-prepared argument. all worthless. Because nobody's listening.

They're checking their emails or their social media feeds on their phones. So the very first words out of your mouth have to grab the audience by the throat and give them a compelling reason to give you the next 15, 20, 30 minutes of their lives because they WANT to, not because they feel OBLIGED to because you're at the front of the room with control of the slide deck. It's a bit like the opening scene in a James Bond movie (the one that sometimes has nothing to do with the movie's plot, but is there purely to grab your attention and draw you in).

You need to get the audience to think, "Hey - this ISN'T going to be like all the other boring presentations I've been forced to endure today/this week/this month; this one's going to be interesting. I want to listen to this. "PLUS.