How to Open and Close Any Presentation with Joel Weldon

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Idea Climbing® Podcast Episode 45

If you’re an entrepreneur you’re constantly presenting to people. But are you doing it effectively? I recently discussed a component of successful presentations with Joel Weldon, a Hall of Fame professional speaker with over 3,000 paid talks and who has personally coached over 10,000 speakers. Yes, he knows a thing or two about presentations.

A presentation is anything that you’re communicating ideas to someone else. This could be an email, a phone call, a video call, an interview and, of course, live and virtual business presentations and many other formats. All of those are the same in the sense that they need to start some place and end some place. According to Joel, to successfully open and close a presentation you need to have a S.Y.S.T.E.M.

What is that?

“Saves You Stress, Time, Energy, Money”.

Think about the last presentation you made. How did it open and close? Were you strategic? The key tip for opening your next presentation is to always make it about your audience. You know it’s about them if you use one three-letter word and get rid of one one-letter word. Those words are “you” and “I”. When you’re presenting it’s not about you its about them. Consider something as simple as an email. Open your email by writing about the other person. Instead of “Hello Chris, I’m writing you because…” consider “Hello Chris, I hope you’ve had a great week so far and all is well with you.” That’s a simple twist and now you have them engaged in the email.

In this episode you’ll also learn about:

More tips for successfully opening your written presentations.
How to open business video presentations.
A deeper dive into the S.Y.S.T.E.M approach and an invitation from Joel to set up a 30-minute call to discuss your situation and goals.
Why Joel believes that a call to action should never be the closing of your presentations, and what to do instead.
The three types of calls to action to include in your presentations, just not at the end.
22 words of advice for successfully presenting your ideas to your audiences.
…and more golden nuggets of advice!

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About The Guest

Joel Weldon:

At age 18— Joel never stood up in four years of high school and gave an oral report or spoke in front of his class, he was so shy and had no confidence.

At age 28— he spoke in front of an audience for the first time. It was part of his job. Afterwards, he was told he was the worst speaker the audience had ever heard. If that happened to you, what would you have done?

At age 36— Joel was inducted into the professional speakers Hall of Fame, standing alongside the world famous speaker Zig Ziglar.

How is that possible?

As of today, Joel has been paid to speak at over 3,000 events and has personally coached well over 10,000 speakers and created an Ultimate Speaking System that works. Plus, he coaches 1 on 1 successful entrepreneurs who are committed to being amazing in their audience’s eyes.

You can learn more about Joel here:

http://www.UltimateSpeaker.net

http://www.SuccessComesInCans.com