This document outlines 8 steps to improve business presentation skills through visualization and modeling excellent presenters. The steps include 1) imagining an upcoming presentation and feelings of nerves, 2) choosing a mentor presenter to model, 3) stating limiting beliefs, 4) imagining explaining the situation to the mentor, 5) imagining encouragement from the mentor, 6) imagining successfully resolving issues and delivering presentations with confidence, 7) addressing any remaining issues, and 8) delivering the presentation noticing changes. Repeating the steps can help different aspects of presentations.

1. How to Deliver a Top
Quality Business
Presentations
By Simon Maselli
www.SimonMaselli.com

2. Would you like to improve the quality of your Business
presentations?
Do you have someone that you would like to model to achieve
excellence and success in delivering business presentations?
If you answered yes to these questions then this exercise is for
you

3. This exercise allows you to create useful states
by visualising excellence in the spirit of Milton
Eriksons famous quote
“You can pretend anything and master it.”

4. Step #1
Think of the business presentation that
you are required to give. Allow yourself to
feel nervous or scared about this business
presentation, it will assist in forming the
neural neworks.

5. Step #2
Choose a person who you feel is an excellent
presenter. It may be another colleague, a
mentor or perhaps someone you watched on
TV. You need to know enough about them to
know how they would relate to you.

6. Step #3
Express the beliefs that you believe are
limiting your business presentation skills.
State this is real terms out loud to yourself.
Try beginning the phrase such as, “I am
scared by…..”, or “I don’t know how to…..”.

7. Step #4
Imagine that you are interacting
with your mentor and that you are
explaining the situation as well as
your limiting beliefs.

8. Step #5
Imagine encouragement from your mentor.
Picture him or her giving you
encouragement stated in the positive and
encouraging you to become a better
business presenter.

9. Step #6
Imagine yourself and your mentor acting as if the
outcomes stated where coming true. Imagine that
you have successfully resolved all the issues you had
with giving presentations and you are able to deliver
our presentations with full confidence. Understand
how you will be thinking or acting differently

10. Step #7
Handle any leftover issues related to
giving your business presentation.
Repeat from Step #2 to deal with
these issues.

11. Step #8
Go ahead and deliver your business
presentation. Notice the changes in
your behaviour and delivery.

12. This exercise is best completed for small parts
of your overall presentation. Perhaps to deal
with your body language or helping your voice
sound more confident. You can repeat the
exercise for as many parts of your Business
Presentation that you feel may benefit from this.

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