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April 28th, 2009 | Public Speaking

I have pointed out that one of the leading causes of stress in our society is being held accountable for an outcome without having control of the situation. In business situations this is commonly caused by office politics. An employee is expected to deliver a particular result, but not allowed to make the changes that would allow such a result.

Another cause of this situation occurs when an individual is held accountable for performing a task – without the proper tools or training.

I can think of a couple of situations where this happened to me.

When I was in University I had a work placement with one organization that did not have a computer for me. That would have been fine other than the fact that my job was to learn a particular tool and program databases for them.

I was told to read the manuals for three weeks until they found a computer for me.

As silly as that sounds, it doesn’t compare to the second example.

One of my first job placements involved my manager putting me on the accounting systems support team. That too would have been fine if weren’t for the fact that I only had a rudimentary knowledge of accounting principles, a less than rudimentary knowledge of COBOL (which the systems were written in) and no knowledge of the mainframe computer that they were running on.

I asked my manager for training, to which he responded with, “Don’t worry, you’ll pick it up.”

The good news was that this company reorganized itself more often than it produced quarterly results. After several months of slogging my way through my assignments, I was assigned to a new department. I didn’t know this system either – but then again no one else did either. The first thing my new manager did was arrange for proper training.

I Felt Instant Relief

It was like I could once again breathe.

The feeling I had is not unfamiliar to those who have the responsibility of a presentation thrust upon them.

You have no presentation skills, but we expect you to do the job anyway. We’re not going to give you training – or even explain what would make your presentation successful. We just expect you to do it.
All of a sudden you are being judged – that is being held accountable – for something you have no control over. You have no control over the success or failure of your presentation because you don’t have any presentation skills.

But What if?

What if you got the skills you needed?
What if those skills were easy to learn?
What if you discovered how to prepare and deliver an effective presentation - almost effortlessly?

Can you imagine how you would feel?

An Easy Source of Presentation Skills

I created EffectivelySpeaking.Com to provide people with the information they need to overcome the fear and go on to excel at speaking in public. With that in mind, I have created this section to hold a number of articles about delivering an effective presentation – I will be adding more over time.

A Free Course on Presentation Skills

In addition, if you are in a situation that is similar to the one I described, then I would encourage you to take my S.C.P. presentation course. It will only take you a few minutes each day for six days, and then about 45 minutes on the seventh. By the time you’re done, you will have a solid understanding of what goes into preparing and delivering an effective presentation. Best of all, I have made the course available for free to Effectively Speaking Members.

If you want to experience the same relief that I described, then head on over to EffectivelySpeakingMembers.Com and sign up. You’ll find a whole lot more “relief generating” information – and best of all, you can sign up for free.

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