Being on the east coast-WHAT an adventure!
Right here, this is the face I make when I have such an incredible audience, like I had this last week at the Women in Philanthropy breakfast in Holyoke MA, and at the AFP NJ Philanthropy Day Conference. Thanks to everyone who made it to these two presentations! I had such a good time hearing […]
4 things I learned from making an ask this week
This week I did something scary. On Friday afternoon, my friend asked me to make the ask for her first campaign kickoff on Saturday afternoon. At first I wanted to say no. I wanted to say, “Sorry, I can’t do it.” But I couldn’t do that to her. I frantically started to write a draft […]
How to jumpstart your donor’s heart in 3 steps
This last week I had the pleasure of speaking at the Urban Summit at Mercycorps. My topic was potentially dry. Enewsletters. Bah. What can you say about those? Luckily, I had something in my back pocket that made everyone sit up and take notice. What was it? My story. You see, in 2009 […]
Do you have trouble presenting for your cause?
How do you practice? By mumbling under your breath an equivalent of what you might say? Or by putting in order the scraps of paper that contain your notes? Or perhaps you think that you can practice by thinking about how you might practice.
None of this, plain and simple, is practice.
Practice is. . .
Guest Post: 4 methods to practice your nonprofit presentation
Another practice option is to record yourself on video or audio. This maybe painful but it will be incredibly instructive. You will learn more watching the playback of a video recording than you will in hours of practicing in a mirror.
Guest Post: Do you have a presentation coming up?
Watch for any odd facial expressions or body twitches or hitches. If you jingle the coins in your pocket, you will drive you audience nuts after a while. If you fuss with your hair, your audience will notice and be distracted. If these are ingrained behaviors, it will take a while to stop doing them. Watch your posture, too. Stand up straight, keep your body open to the audience.