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Have you ever felt like strategic planning sounds like a jumble of buzzwords and confusing acronyms? Let’s demystify that today and take a journey beyond jargon.
At its heart, strategic planning is about two deceptively simple yet profound ideas: seeing the world more clearly and understanding what matters most.
Straightforward right? Yet so much grows from these concepts.
A goal without a plan is just a wish.
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
So… how do I stop feeling nervous?
…the quick answer is – I can’t just stop feeling nervous. So, a more useful question might be, do we want to get rid of nerves altogether?
I’m sure we can all recall a moment when we have had to stand up in front of a room of people, whether for a work presentation or maybe for a wedding speech. The hairs on our arms raise up, our heart is in our throat, our breathing rate goes for a jog….the list goes on.
Wouldn’t it be great if we could stop all of this and make our lives easier? If we did achieve that, then what might that speaker look like?..it could be… very robotic.
This is something that often comes up during our presentation skills course which I for one always encourage a conversation around. As trainers, the way we like to think about it is, that we don’t/can’t get rid of nerves, but what we can train ourselves to do is to help control them.
So how do we do this? This is where the advice can get very individual but here are a few of the key changes to consider:
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When I was 8 years old I gave my first speech to an audience of 300+ schoolmates.
It was terrifying, and I’m pretty sure I rushed my way through it to get it over with.
So in the decades since I’ve done all sorts of things to become more confident as a presenter.
Each of these has helped me build confidence and skill and cultivate my own style.
But if I had to begin again, this is the guidance I wish I’d had when learning to present ideas in a clear, connected and engaging way…