Perfect Presentations

There are many ways to improve your presentation skills, whether through Toastmasters, Dale Carnegie, one of our workshops, or many other fine opportunities. And in most of these programs you will learn many of the same skills and ideas - techniques that will make you effective, regardless of who you are.

This post on the Presentation Zen blog, which talks about the unique and unorthodox styles of Seth Godin, Guy Kawasaki and Tom Peters (which video clips of each), reminded me that for all of the proven techniques and approaches, we still must make the presentation our own - we must own it - and it must reflect who we are.

There is no one best leadership style. There is no one best parenting style. And there is no one best presentation style - except the one that is uniuely yours.

I'm sure that Tom, Seth and Guy know all of the "proper" presenting rules, and I'm equally sure they have made conscious decisions about their styles to match their personality and their message.

We can all learn from them, and I hope that you do.

(Thanks to the several different people who forwarded me this post!)

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