How to Manage When You Forget Your Point in the Middle of Your Presentation

Do you forget your points, in the middle of your presentation?

How often?

What most people know about me is that I am a professional speaker and I motivate people all around the country. What most people don’t know about me is that I have a tendency to follow my own presentation in the middle. It’s embarrassing and really scary as well.

Last time it happened to me was when I was speaking to a group of HDFC Gold Loan Professionals. I was teaching them about attitude needed for going out there and making it happen. I was taking them through a 5-step process for developing a winning attitude needed to make it big in business.

After the 2^nd point, I was blank.

I mean, complete blank.

They looked at me expecting my next point, and I was dumbstruck.

15 minutes down the line we finished the training for the day and I was given a standing ovation. They loved it.

Now, you may be thinking: “But how? You forgot your point. How did you manage?”

Well, that’s exactly what I am going to show you.

I teach all of that at my Famous Course “Present Like A Champ BootCamp”. For time limitation, let me give you a few quick tips, and if you want more, call my office and we will be happy to give you all of them.

When you forget a point, you can do any of the following:

Start talking about Why You Believe So Intensely In Your Topic
Go right into an activity (Video)
Ask a rhetorical question
Ask an engaging question
Do what I call “Discuss and Share” technique. Ask your audience members to discuss (for 30 to 90 seconds) about what they have learnt from what you have said in last few minutes, and then ask them to say it out loud (while in the mean time you get back on your thinking track )
Use one of your impromptu speaking techniques and rock the floor

This is what I did in front of those HDFC people and I continue to do so, and I continue getting standing ovations and repeat businesses.

An amateur will forget his point and make it obvious to them.

A Champion Presenter may forget his point but he will immediately get a technique from his arsenal of quickie punch and look like a SEASONED PRO.

Which one are you?

About the author: Bishal Sarkar, popularly known as “The Excellence Guy”, is called the best motivational speaker of Bangalore India. Bishal is the creator of “Present like a Champ Boot Camp” (The Best Public Speaking Course in Bangalore) where he teaches the participants the step-by-step easy-to-follow process of public speaking success. He regularly speaks to professionals, youth groups, corporate groups, and trains people from various walks of life and brings out the excellence within them. As the author of the book “I Love Public Speaking”, Bishal now teaches professionals how to overcome fear of public speaking and deliver powerful presentations using the proven formula of speaking & presentation success, through his public speaking courses & communication skills classes in Bangalore. He also helps aspiring speakers by teaching them How to become a motivational speaker in India. People say that he has designed the best presentation skills classes & public speaking workshops in Bangalore. For enrolling in Bishal Sarkar’s “Present like a Champ Boot Camp”, call us on +91-88803-61526.

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