This presentation is based on my 25 years of personal experience as a presenter and technical trainer and two books I recently discovered by Garr Reynolds (Presentation Zen and The Naked Presenter). It shows how your attention makes or breaks your show and how you can improve your ability to master your attention and be your true self while you are up on that stage.

1. present
How to give effective presentations

2. Who is talking ?
Jang F.M. Graat

3. The art of Presenting
What makes a presenter effective ?

4. your goal
getting your message across

5. Your nightmare
presenting can be a real challenge

15. Attention
How does it work ?

16. What is it ?
• at•ten•tion, n. 1. the act or faculty of attending, esp. by
directing the mind to an object. 2. Psychol. a. a
concentration of the mind on a single object or thought,
esp. one preferentially selected from a complex, with a
view to limiting or clarifying receptivity by narrowing the
range of stimuli. b. a state of consciousness characterized
by such concentration. c. a capacity to maintain selective or
sustained concentration.
• [Webster’s Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, 1996
edition.]

17. Ad-tendere
reaching out for something

18. Outward
directing the mind to an object

19. Specific
focus on one particular object

20. Inward
not only aimed at physical objects

21. Distraction
your attention gets caught by something

22. Attraction
some ‘objects’ strongly attract attention

23. Using attention
misguiding your attention

24. Restless minds
attention behaves like a young puppy

25. Out of control
your attention is running away with you

26. Focusing
deliberately directing attention

27. Concentration
summoning all your attention

28. Tunnel vision
only perceiving what is in the focal point

29. Presence
Controlling attention

30. Practice
until everything becomes natural

31. Lose the mind
trust your intuition and skills

32. become focused
put all your attention on the goal

33. focal point
makes objects bigger, more colorful

34. You decide
where is your focus ?

35. stay focused
lose your focus and you’ll lose the audience

36. Go with the flow
enjoy the ride

37. Be real
the audience can only relate to real persons

38. your story
make it personal

39. “People will forget what
you said, people will forget
what you did, but people
will never forget how you
made them feel.”
Maya Angelou
Engage
show and share your passion

40. Presence
you and me, here and now

41. Present
something to take home

42. Questions ?
jang@jang.nl