by TJ Walker

ISBN 978-1-929774-88-3

Get it Right the First Time!

TJ Walker fills you with clarity and purpose for any presentation you may make. He makes his points and educates you on ways to improve yourself. How do you know you are as good as you think? How good does your audience feel you are? Many presenters haven’t got the guts to really ask. Walker helps you get there! He covers how to handle stage fright and nervousness. Delivering your presentation is different from planning it in our mind, so he covers how to give it that punch with rehearsals. His techniques and suggestions will be helpful over your lifetime and you will find many ways to incorporate these ideas in your professional and personal life.

We all need to be reminded of how to best prepare for the presentation…it isn’t enough to have all of the data and facts organized. You find that you spend hours upon hours preparing the facts. Preparing for accuracy and depth--to prove that you know your stuff. Well, your audience won’t remember it unless you make it appealing to them. Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder,” as they say and that isn’t much different from what your listener will walk away with. It has to be meaningful and interesting for that listener to take something important away from your speech. How many presentations have you heard that bored you to tears? You probably have given many. We all have been guilty of thinking through a speech in our head, but not rehearsing it. How many times has it come out completely different, and not as good, because you didn’t dedicate enough time to prep? How many times have you asked for feedback that was real and meaningful?

This book will prevent you from being a boring lecturer. It helps you outline and prepare with new vision and goals. He talks about how to not use PowerPoint! Connecting with the audience takes preparation and planning. Walker provides this and much more. His techniques benefit the inexperienced as well as the veteran speakers. It will help you think outside the box. Creating and maintaining interest is possible by using his key points. He has many messages and techniques that make your presentation planning easier, and more fun! I used it to prep a webinar presentation, and I structured my Power Point and my stories completely differently than I had in the past. A home run!