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Mindful Presenter is far more than a training and development business helping people to speak with greater confidence and impact. We are in the business of helping people to connect with each other. Connecting themselves and their ideas with others in a way that is calm, creative and compelling. Mindful Presenting is the route to connecting emotionally as well as intellectually with your audience? What do you do?

Public speaking and high impact presenting is about how we make people feel. It's not simply about sharing knowledge and data, that's easy. The five most important words in presenting and public speaking is Please Make Me Feel Something. Imagine your audience silently screaming those 5 words out to you from their own minds.

At Mindful Presenter we don't believe that you can having a boring topic, product, service or idea to present on. We do however, believe that any presentation can be made boring because the presenter is boring. The key reason for this is the lack of energy given in the crafting and delivery of the presentation. Your audience really do need your energy and if you are involved in public speaking or presenting in any way we owe it to them to give them as much as we can.

You could be the best presenter and public speaker in the world but that doesn't mean you know the answer to everything. Occasionally you will be asked a question during or after your presentation that you either don't know the answer to or have momentarily forgotten the answer. Public speaking and presenting isn't easy but it becomes much easier if we own the entire experience, including the fact that we can't know the answer to everything. It's ok to say 'I don't know'.

If you've been following the Mindful Presenter Truth Series you will have experienced our passionate belief that high impact public speaking and presenting involves far more than simply presenting data. At the heart of our presentation we need to send our audience a sincere feeling of love.

We all need to have our physiological needs looked after, we need to feel safe, we need to feel a sense of belong and connect, we need a healthy self esteem and we all want to be the best that we can be. In public speaking and presenting it's worth remembering that whilst we are all unique and have a vast range of very personal and specific needs at the core we are all the same. That knowledge and understanding can be very helpful to us and our audience when we sit down to craft our presentation.

A high impact presentation is far more than a presenter simply speaking and presenting; it's a conversation. Public speaking success requires us to actively involve our audience in the presentation.

Far to many presenter prepare and deliver presentations without knowing exactly who there audience are, how much they know and how they can help them. Public speaking is about making a difference to people and the only way presenters can do that is by understanding the expectations of their audience and then mindfully managing those expectations.

The challenge of public speaking and presenting is to craft and deliver content and a message which is so mindfully considered that it'e memorable. If your audience don't remember your presentation then you've wasted their time and yours.

Every presentation has to be personal and relevant to your audience in a specific and meaningful way. Effective public speaking and presenting isn't about simply turning up to tell your audience what you want to see. Mindful presenting and high impact public speaking involves telling your audience what they need to know.

One of the most important elements of high impact presenting and public speaking is eye contact. If you are giving a presentation its crucial that you make eye contact with your audience. That doesn't mean the presenter scanning the room, it means taking a few seconds to genuinely make eye contact with as many members of the audience as possible.

High impact public speaking and presenting isn't about the length of time it takes to present. It's about the impact and difference it makes in real terms to our audience that counts. Whether a presentation takes 5 minutes or 25 minutes is largely irrelevant; it's about impact.

If you've ever had to prepare and deliver a presentation you'll realise as most presenters do that there are 3 types of presentation which makes public speaking a challenge. There is the presentation you prepared The presentation you delivered The presentation you wish you had delivered

PowerPoint and other visual aid platforms are used in all walks of public speaking and presenting. There is nothing wrong with PowerPoint but there is often a great deal wrong with the way we use it. If you have a presentation to craft and deliver soon, watch out for these 5 big mistakes.

The only example you will ever need of how not to speak, present or debate in public. Did you see last nights US Presidential Election debate? This was one of the most disturbing political debates I have ever witnessed.

Success in presenting and public speaking depends upon not only a strong opening but an equally strong close. Many presentations end with a lack of clarity and imagination. They often drift off like damp fireworks. Closing your presentation with impact is a must for every presenter.

Ownership is the watchword of high impact public speaking and presenting. That means taking full responsibility for every aspect of the presentation even if that means being assertive and sometimes pushing back.

Our most important task when presenting and public speaking is to connect with our audience. That all important connection begins the moment you stand to present and before you utter a word. Don't be in a rush to give your presentation and start speaking before you have made a momentary connection with yourself and your audience.

Like many things in life most people are looking for the hack. The hack is the short cut, easy way, magic pill that means they don't have to work hard to get the result they want. When it comes to high impact presenting and public speaking there are no hacks or short cuts. To craft and deliver a great presentation you have to put in the work. The good news is, if you're prepared to do the work there is a great deal you can do.

Public speaking and presenting is a challenge for many people at work and most people don't like attending business presentations. At Mindful Presenter we believe is that one of the reasons for this is that we haven't really changed since we were at nursery school. Our audience want much more from us