Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning.
Speaker 1: This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's
Speaker 1: tip is that when you are presenting your work, start
Speaker 1: by identifying what you are excited about so you can
Speaker 1: get your audience excited too. Today's tip comes from the
Speaker 1: book Broken Wrong When the career latter breaks for women
Speaker 1: and how they can succeed in spite of it. Authors
Speaker 1: coiln ellingrid Lorena Yee, and Maria del Mar Martinez draw
Speaker 1: on their experiences at Senior Partners at Mackenzie to offer
Speaker 1: strategies for women in particular, but really for everyone to
Speaker 1: thrive in their careers. They recount the story of an
Speaker 1: associate brand manager who was about to present her annual
Speaker 1: plan to the president of her company. The president said,
Speaker 1: before you dive in, always explain why someone should be
Speaker 1: excited about your plan. This employee took the advice to heart.
Speaker 1: Ever since, they say, she never starts a presentation with
Speaker 1: the deck. Instead, she opens with, these are the things
Speaker 1: you're going to hear about that I'm most excited about.
Speaker 1: They continued, It allows her to intentionally position any conversation.
Speaker 1: This seems like smart advice when you are getting ready
Speaker 1: to give a presentation, get clear on why you are
Speaker 1: excited so you can get others excited too. You want
Speaker 1: to sound conversational when you say why you are excited,
Speaker 1: but I would still be inclined to plan what you
Speaker 1: are going to say and rehearse it. You want to
Speaker 1: be sure that whatever you are excited about comes through clearly.
Speaker 1: You don't want there to be a disconnect between what
Speaker 1: you are excited about what you spend most of your
Speaker 1: time talking about. For some presentations, it will be easy
Speaker 1: to articulate what you are excited about, and for others
Speaker 1: it may be a little harder, but there is probably
Speaker 1: still something. If you are presenting on a new set
Speaker 1: of options for health insurance, you may be excited about
Speaker 1: how a new plan will give your employees the same
Speaker 1: level of care while saving your company money. In a
Speaker 1: presentation about a marketing plan, you might be excited that
Speaker 1: you've identified an emerging market of customers and a strategy
Speaker 1: for reaching them before your competitors do. Maybe you are
Speaker 1: excited about your role in executing whatever plan you're presenting.
Speaker 1: It might be a chance to use new skills you've gained.
Speaker 1: You could mention that too. You want to be strategic
Speaker 1: in choosing what you say you are excited about. I
Speaker 1: mean it should be something you are genuinely excited about,
Speaker 1: but also something that will be relevant and meaningful to
Speaker 1: your audience too. So do some thinking. Nobody likes a
Speaker 1: dull presentation. You don't want to give one, and your
Speaker 1: audience really doesn't want to sit through one. When you
Speaker 1: convey your excitement as a prelude to your presentation, you
Speaker 1: liven things up. You connect with your listeners and get
Speaker 1: them excited so they will be engaged and invested in
Speaker 1: you and in what you present. You show you care
Speaker 1: so they care, and that is as important as however
Speaker 1: fancy you have made your slides. In the meantime, this
Speaker 1: is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making the
Speaker 1: most of our time. Thanks for listening to Before Breakfast.
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