Susan Peterson
What was Susan Peterson's "switching paradigms" technique?

What feeling did this technique combat?

Robert Dickman
What term does Robert Dickman use to identify that state of being when you are "in your breathing and in your body" so that your mind won't race?

What does he say is perhaps the most essential ingredient in speaking confidently?

What do you have to do after you've connected with yourself and are physically comfortable with your surroundings?

Sheri Jeavons
What kind of environment does getting rid of speech anxiety require?

What is the only way to learn the new skills of how to give a presentation in front of a group?

You need to be an active participant, standing and presenting, with what three things?

Sam Del Brocco
What will produce more energy, authority and confidence and go a long way toward alleviating anxiety?

Why don't most people appear this way?

Melanie De Bond
What does cognitive restructuring involve?

With what do we replace fear-inducing thoughts?
 

Luanne White
What can be a powerful ally when presenting, if it involves flowing adrenaline?

What more do you have to do other than look and speak if you want to engage someone in conversation?

What do you become when you connect correctly and get rid of your fears?

What must you direct toward the audience in order to transfer this idea to speaking at a podium?

What is the most important step in managing speaking anxiety, according to Dr. Motley's research?

What kind of orientation do people with high anxiety almost always have?

In a nutshell, what should you see the audience as?

What should you focus on having?

How should you organize your points?

In what manner should you communicate what you want to say?

What should you focus on doing with your audience, instead of performing for them?

What must you be on guard against in order to make sure your thinking stays rational and realistic?

What leads to the extreme anxiety many of us feel?

What should we adopt that will naturally lead to less physical arousal?

What can help to keep your heart-rate in check?

What is the "428" approach to keep you from feeling anxious?

What three things must you adopt in order to be able to face your next presentation, not with fear, but with excitement?

In advance of the program
How prepared should you be?

What should you do concerning your opening statement so you can recite it on autopilot if you have to?                

Strategies just before the program
What should you remember about stage fright?

What should you do to relax your throat?

What should you do with attendees before the program?

What should you do to make sure your voice is ready to go?         

For how long should you breathe deeply, evenly, and slowly?

When should you take tranquilizers or other such drugs?

Strategies when the program begins
What can you use to make you feel less isolated?           

Where should you look?                

What three things must you do to create a fun gimmick or a dramatic opening to grab your audience's attention?

Nothing works better than sharing what?

Make sure you choose an opening to suit what?

The first goal of a public speaker is to create what?

What three components make up the way we deliver our message to other people?

Which of these three components usually carries the most weight with audience members, and what are the main areas in this equation?

What theory does this follow?

How should you stand in order to achieve a comfortable speaking position and stop any swaying or rocking motion?

What do gestures help you to emphasize?

Which gestures are the most effective ones, where do they come from, and what do they help the audience do?

As a presenter in a business setting, how will you will be using gestures?

As a presenter in a business setting, you will be using gestures only to emphasize what?

The most effective gestures are natural extensions of what?

To what should you relate the extent of your gestures?

What do bigger audiences need?

What does standing behind the lectern for any length of time do?

What should you use to establish contact with your audience?

What increases your audience's attention and interest?

You should videotape your presentation or practice in front of a friend to see if you do what?

What more does it take than just a slick presentation to seal the deal and make an impression?

What do listeners have to know before they can participate in your presentation?

What is crucial in order to establish a dialogue with your audience?

Audiences stay more focused when you supply information how?

What is an excellent way to accent your key message and prevent your audience from slipping into a passive listening mode?

What strategy helped one presenter "force" the audience to listen and consequently drew them in and helped maintain a constant dialogue between himself and the audience?

If you want to introduce variety in your delivery, you can start by doing what?

What can vary the pace of the talk in a good way (as opposed to a distracting way) and encourage you to change your voice as well?

Because most of us do not want to be lectured to for an hour and prefer to have the chance to add our own comments and questions throughout the talk, what should you do?

What can help keep you sounding and looking more energized - and your audience more engaged?

If a room's lighting is poor, what will it be difficult to do?

The more people talk and share their opinions and ideas, the more they will then do what?

Delivering your presentation effectively involves using what proven four-step process?

What should you plan the content of your presentation around?

What should you prepare in order to get the audience's attention and elicit the audience's interest?

Your key ideas should make up what percent of your presentation?

What should a memorable close do?

You should consider videotaping yourself rehearsing, and then review the videotape for what?

What is the best cure for nervousness?

What comes with practice?

What kind of tone should you speak in?

What should you do before and after key points to set them apart?

Question-and-answer sessions offer the opportunity for you to do what?

If a question takes you off track or is of interest to only a few members of your audience, what should you do?

What should you do at the beginning of your question period?

What should you do if no one has any questions?

What should you do so that everyone can hear the questions?

What should you do to end the question period?

When preparing your speech, what three things must you consider in order to limit your material based on time or audience interest?

What will create more impact and action than pure data?

What should you include in order to reinforce the key points?

What kind of notes should you create?

Stage fright is a negative term for what?

You should channel the adrenaline into what?

You can control the physical symptoms by doing what?

Which audience members should you look at when answering questions?

Remember -- speaking is what kind of sport?

You should be successful as a presenter as long as you stay focused on what during the preparation, delivery and during the Q and A?

 

To gesture effectively, how should you respond to what you think, feel, and see?

When you speak, what should you be totally involved in rather than thinking about your hands?

What should your gestures be motivated by?

So the audience will note only the effect, not the gesture itself, what should every gesture you make be?

What will you need to continue to do if you expect to eliminate all your distracting mannerisms?

What does the "formula" for putting together good presentation content start with?

No matter what happens during the presentation, don't cheat your audience out what?

What hasn't worked for business presenters over the last hundred years or so and it probably won't work for you either?

What will happen when your actions are wedded to your words?

What will happen if your platform behavior includes mannerisms unrelated to your spoken message?

What is the first step in eliminating any superfluous behavior?

After you have videotaped yourself speaking, review the tape several times and make a list of what?

What is the most important rule for making your body communicate effectively?

What should the emphasis be on instead of the performance?

Strive to be as genuine and natural as you are when you speak to whom?

What is it essential that you get rid of and share to become an effective speaker?

Speak from where and to where?

Nothing influences a speaker's mental attitude more than the knowledge that he or she is what?

What is the cement that binds together speakers and their audiences?

When you speak, what do your eyes do to your listeners in your presentation?

No matter how large your audience may be, what does each listener want to feel?

You can convince your listeners that you are sincere and are interested in them, and that you care whether they accept your message, only by doing what?

How long should you maintain eye contact with one person in order establish a visual bond?

What three things can you do if your audience is bored?

When does a speaker begin to command presence?
 

You should watch for consistency in what three things?

In what way should the text come in to make it easier to read?

How can you get a black screen when you are in slide show view?

How can you jump ahead to a different part of your presentation when you are in slide show view?

What three things can you use as a backup plan?

What should you do if the equipment fails?

Who is the message?

The visual aid is just what?

What approach can you use to avoid presentation slides cluttered with more text than our audience can absorb?

Instead of using text to deliver your message, what can you leverage to illustrate your ideas?

What is ultimately our goal as presenters?

Your audience will never criticize you for simple, non-cluttered slides, but they will tune out if you do what?

What is an essential concept worth mastering to ensure your message is clearly articulated and understood by any audience?

If you have lots of information to tell, where should you put that extra data and what should you use it for?

What should you constantly ask yourself?

Through what two ways can we brand our presentations and keep the central theme evident and consistently expressed throughout?

What three simple tricks can you use to make sure your slides will display with the font you intended?

What is the fastest and easiest way to make sure your slides display the way you intend them?

What is the advantage of embedding fonts?

What is the disadvantage of embedding fonts?

What are the two main differences between linked objects and embedded objects?

What happens to an embedded object when it is inserted into the destination file?

How might embedded objects larger than 100 KB affect the performance of your presentation?

What will happen if you embed a file that is more than 50 MB?

What is the default setting in PowerPoint for the allowed maximum size of embedded objects, and can that maximum size be changed?

If you plan to show your presentation on another computer, what must you save on the computer you're using to present?

What type of object (file) should you use if you plan to make changes to the source file and you want the changes to be recognized in the presentation?

When a file is embedded, does the information in the destination file change if you modify the source file?

Which layout option has a vertical orientation and comes with blank lines for audience notes?

Where can you position, size, and format headers and footers?

As animation effects are applied to items on a slide, where are they reflected?

What initially determines the order of the sequences of the animation effects?

If you move an animated item to a new location on the slide, what will happen to its position in the animation list?

What two ways can you change the order of the animated effects?

What three choices do you have for how to begin (start) an effect?

Which should you choose in order to make an item's effect play at the same time as the previous item in the list or on load of the slide if the effect is first in the list?

Self-running presentations are a great way to communicate information without having to have what?

For example, you might want to set up a presentation to run unattended where?

What does a self-running presentation do when it has finished and also when it has been idle on a manually advanced slide for longer than five minutes?

What can you use to move through the presentation or to jump to other slides and programs?

What can give your presentation the look and familiarity of a web page, with buttons for Home, Help, Back, Next, and so on?

What can you create a hyperlink from?

Adding a narrative in your self-running presentation can help deliver what?

What are two ways that you can add a narrative to help deliver more information in your self-running presentation?

What must you keep in mind in addition to the animations you want to use (or have used)?

What browsers and versions do PowerPoint animated effects only work with?

What custom animation or animation schemes will work with Netscape or earlier versions of Internet Explorer?

Will most animation effects and most motion paths, including custom motion paths, work nicely in the Web page environment?

How will effects applied to charts play?

To arrange the timing of the animation sequences so that your audience members don't have to click the slide area to make the next item appear, how should you set the animations? 

If they do not have Office XP installed, what might your audience need to do to view the animated Web presentation?

What should you consider when deciding whether to add sound to a Web presentation?

What should you consider when deciding whether to add video to a Web presentation?

What should you consider when deciding whether to add embedded objects to a Web presentation?

What happens when you publish the presentation instead of merely saving it as a Web page or Web archive?

What can you do as presentations are completed by your team members and sent back to you?

What can you then use to apply your team members' changes and incorporate them into your presentation?

The members of your project team are located in another city. What can you do by using PowerPoint and Microsoft NetMeeting?

What must the host of the online meeting and all participants have installed on their computers?

Who needs to have the shared presentation and PowerPoint installed?

When (in what situation) should you consider broadcasting the presentation?

What can you include as you broadcast the presentation, so it's really like you are presenting in each office? 

What does your audience need in order to see the presentation?

What can you do when you want to broadcast a PowerPoint presentation to a group of people, but know that not all the participants can attend at the same time?

What does recording and saving your broadcast allow the members of your audience to do?

With presentation broadcasting, can you deliver a presentation including video and audio narration?

With presentation broadcasting, can you deliver to an audience with members who are at different locations?

To what two places can you record and save a presentation broadcast?

Can you see yourself in video display while you deliver a presentation?

If you recorded the broadcast to a folder that is not shared and want to move the recorded broadcast to a shared location, what must you be sure to do?

What is Microsoft Producer and what does it make it easy to do?

What can you create with it?

What can you do with existing video training content in order to reach users in a cost-effective and engaging way?

What is probably the number one reason why an increasing number of businesspeople are realizing the advantages of using a PDA in presentation settings?

Can you do much with video or audio?

Can you present with large files?

What can PDA presentation software – for Palm and Pocket PC operating systems – offer for the average Microsoft PowerPoint-type slideshow?

Do any of these products allow you to view PowerPoint as well as Microsoft Word and Excel documents in their native formats on a Pocket PC-based PDA?

Do any of these products claim no data-conversion steps are necessary, and most PowerPoint transitions and animations are supported?

Will a smart phone soon let you present PowerPoint-like slideshows from a cell phone?