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Jerzy Zientkowski: Why you don’t need self confidence on stage. A lesson from the IT guy

Tue, 04 Nov 2014 17:59:00 +0200 by Oscar Leave a Comment

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Jerzy Zientkowski is a public speaker and coach. He is founder and owner of speakerslair.pl a coaching company, which organizes workshops, coaching sessions and helps clients with business presentations. He has nearly 20 years of experience in IT field, working for small and big companies. Jerzy currently has 100+ speaking appearances per year and has been TEDx speaker. He is also a Toastmaster, who among many other achievements cofounded the English-speaking club “Verbal Victory” in Poznan.

Lifetime best opener

  1. “Hi, I’m an IT guy”… “Don’t expect many of my jokes to be good”. The audience starts laughing and they feel connected to the speaker.
  2. To start acting as a speaker who introduces himself arrogantly. Then leave the stage and ask to the audience: “what do you think about this guy?”

His stage fright moment

Toastmasters’ Division level Humorous Speech Contest, in front of 300 people. First 20 seconds were brilliant. But then, the bad feeling came.

Today, the feeling (stage fright) is always there but he learnt to perform next to it.

Do we need self confidence on stage?

No. People needs confidence in skills, in connections, in what’s in our hearts, in our beliefs.

How to build the gap thought as “lack of self confidence”

Measure what you do. Think of proper questions to the one who gives you feedback: Was I understandable? What you didn’t understand in my presentation?

* In Toastmasters, Project #2 is your very second task “Organize your speech”.

Favorite quotation

“The only reason to give a speech is to change the world.” – John F. Kennedy

Recommended book

Audiobooks by Darren LaCroix

Routine to Shine

Try this weekly. Take your slides, put a piece of paper with numbers 3-7-11 near your laptop. Is the idea of this slide understandable in 3 seconds? Can I read everything on this slide in 7 seconds? Are my slides redable from 11 meters away?

Links

Jerzy at LinkedIn

speakerslair


 

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