Three secrets of powerful practice. How can you expect to be effective if you do not practice your pitch? Have you ever gone to a networking event, and the person next to you is trying to describe what he does, but keeps Miss cueing the words, This often happens. At any event, the major problem besides a lack of focus is not what the speaker is saying. But it's not been practice. Why don't people practice quite often they feel subconscious trying to practice in front of the mirror, especially when others are around and listening.

The reality is you need to practice over and over again until the spiel is second nature. So having an audience is not a bad thing. It's a necessity. The initial solution is to make sure you have the door closed so you cannot be disturbed. Then allow others to hear what you have to stay still shy. You could use an audio to tape yourself to give yourself feedback from what you hear and see during the presentation.

Professionals tape their presentations in order to make the necessary adjustments to their pitch. They practice in practice until the presentation is smooth. Did you know that Robin Williams does at least 37 takes of any movie seen before he feels that his performance is up to par? He's a seasoned pro yet he still practices all the time. Could you imagine Michael Jordan not practicing throwing balls into the hoop. When you reach the professional level, practice becomes more imperative.

Without practice it is difficult to move forward may be surprised when the words do not flow the way they should. You must become the expert if you were to work a room effectively. Do not think of this as in terms of smooth talking salesman the connotation is always negative. But as The way you present yourself with confidence and poise, people will more likely enjoy listening to you when your messages practice and your delivery of smooth practices like acting, you need to keep working on it until you think the pitch is perfect. practicing the words is not the only thing you need to work on how you move your body, your icontact hand gestures arm positions how you scan how your face looks, all must be mastered in a practice session. You need to treat the practice session as if you are playing a part in a movie.

Soft skills such as body language and intonation all contribute to the three secrets of powerful practice. Let's talk about creating a powerful script. Have you ever heard about copywriting the type of writing that gets the readers Attention and have them read on further. Wow. The same is true of your pitch. Now that you have taken the time to write that perfect pitch including your meme, it is time to start the practice ritual.

Now for most of us practice comes as part of what we want to skip. I know I do, but I do it anyway. I know I will practice playing tennis, baseball. I will even practice running, cycling or playing other games, but I dislike practicing speaking ahead of time, I have to force myself to do it. Can you imagine a movie or play if actors did not rehearse? It would be absolutely terrible as they tripped over their words, forgot their lines and became less believable.

The same is true when it comes to your elevator speech. That is your pitch or anything else you say about your company. You have to know your script in detail at first You will stray from the script and make up stuff as you practice. Did you know it but it takes a minimum of 50 times for anything to become a habit. Do you want to waste sales to a potential market 50 times? I don't think so.

I would think you would prefer to practice. Okay. So you may be shy practicing in front of others, you can start by locking yourself in a room and reading the script. Do not try to memorize it at first, just read, read, read and make changes so that you feel more comfortable with what you were saying. You need to have another person to read it back to you. If it does not pique your interest, then you will still have to make more changes until you get it right.

Make it interesting. Make it so people want to know more memory. Here's some tricks that will keep it intact. We all know that we should have our script ready and commit it to memory. But that's not the only thing. Let's first take a look at consistency.

Your script should be ready at this stage along with your meme. So now let's find the best ways to practice until the words are second nature to you, and you can say them consistently without variation. At first, you may want to think about making improvements even though you have gone through the process of making changes. It is your job to rehearse to get the script just right. Here's some professional tactics that will be useful to you from a Toastmasters professional I heard them say before I give every speech, I sit down and I write every word. Literally.

The act of writing the words you want to say or need to say produces a very different result than when you are winging it and speaking off the cuff even if you are good at it. If this sounds like a lot of trouble, I know that you say the same things over and over again in front of clients. If you haven't taken the time to think about how best to say those things about what you need to say, you must really try it. You'll like it a lot better than winging it and solely your dream clients. Now let's talk about winning rehearsals. The rehearsal builds confidence, confidence builds a better performance.

It's true for sales that is for public speaking. Here are a few steps that will help you along the way. One, find a place to rehearse. There's no real ideal place but it should be a quiet spot where there are little distractions. You don't want to be locked in a closet but you do want to make sure there is nothing around you that will get you off track. Also, make sure you can get to what you need without traveling for such as have a patient And near, so that you can spend more time rehearsing and less time wandering around.

Take out any unneeded electronics, posters or anything else that may get you distracted. For me, I use the dining room of all places. It's a good place to practice at home, but just make sure you have something that's very quiet, to gather everything you need. For me, it's PowerPoint, the copies of the slides. Whatever I have produced, it's my research so that I have everything in front of me when I go to make my elevator speech, or at least make a list of what I need to have, such as a microphone because I do record it and play it back and get it before you start to rehearse. Don't be getting up and down and running around because you don't want to rehearse three, have someone rehearse with you, it can help to have a person encouraging you, making sure you stay on track.

And giving you advice about where you can make changes. For setup times to rehearse. Set a chunk of time to practice, put it in your calendar. Decide how much you are going to need to practice, you may only need an hour or you may need three hours, set a minimum time, have at least 45 minutes to rehearse and decide when you will do it. Put it in your calendar. Five, divide what you need to rehearse and depart.

So you may decide you want to practice that first sentence. And then you may want to decide to practice the component that gives your expertise. Just make sure that you do do it. And in the worst case, break it down. Make it easier on yourself. Six, spend enough time on each if you spend 15 minutes on the first sentence, spend 15 minutes on your expertise and spend the last 15 minutes on showing those benefits to the country.

Seven. Allow yourself to have brakes. You don't want to overpower your mind. You want to be able to tune it so that you can say your pitch without a hitch. Eight, relax, don't get freaked out before you have to give the pitch and go to a networking event become and don't worry, if you have practiced enough beforehand, you should be just fine. All of these things together equal success factors.

So just remember, consistency, professional tactics and winning rehearsals all add up to your success. You are your business. Even if you are wonderful when you put yourself on the spot. How would your sales calls and presentations benefit from rehearsal? How do you make sure your language and choices are as powerful as they need to be? How do you rehearse your sales calls and presentations What do you want your clients or audience to do after you present?

How does what you do affect their decision? It is all in the pitch because they will not want to go to the second conversation if you don't hook them in the first time is of the essence. How much time do you spend in preparation? This time, let me quote us some numbers. Herbert research, conducted a study late last year and surveyed vice presidents and sales managers of mid to large companies in North America. The intent of the study was to determine how management and sales professionals perceived and acted on presentation preparation.

Now this includes your pitch. I won't bore you with a series of numbers from the entire study. I will however, share with you two points that jumped off the page and I consider cause for alarm. Granted, this study focuses on sales professionals. And I asked you to step back and ask yourself if you're one of the next two categories regardless of the type of presentation you are delivering. The study revealed these two shocking points 30 minutes the average time sales managers and vice presidents expect their sales professionals prepare for a sales call.

20 Minutes or Less is the length of time professionals actually spend on preparation. The shocker is 33% spend one to 10 minutes preparing both 29% spend 11 to 20 minutes. When you read the last line, I thought I was going to fall out of my office chair. I asked you what kind of success rate with your presentation half of you spent one minute preparing for it. Give me a break. rehearse your presentation wants in real time out loud, enjoy an 80% advantage over other people in their pitch because they do not rehearse.

Be a leader. Here's some final thoughts in rehearsal. Rehearsal is a simple form of repetitive behavior. I recently heard an Olympian say, in order to achieve such success and hit the Olympics, you have to enjoy the mundane. Your repetitive behavior or training routinely used by many professions, which includes the athletes, pilots, firefighters, emergency rescue, so on and so forth because they want to hone their skills is all repetitive. Do not skip this step.

If you want to lead others you have to be perfect at what you do, if not absolutely perfect. It has to be ingrained rehearse your own present Patience and avoid the disaster of stumbling over yourself ideas to remember practicing effectively, practice, practice, practice until your pitch is an integral part of your speech. You should practice until the pitch sounds very natural and not rehearsed. Take the time to do it right and the results will amaze you. Memory a trick to keeping it intact creating a powerful script. Your script needs to hook the listener in to wanting to know more.

It gives you the edge over the competition. You need to know how your product or service benefits the customer and not present features unless ask for it later. You need to weave your own expertise into the pitch but do it subtly without bragging but showing you know what you're talking about. Other things Memory memorizing is tough but reading and rewriting your script until the words are perfect are extremely important. Many professionals have tips on getting their script just right. writing out the words until they are ingrained is an easy step.

Talking out loud and practicing once you have the words perfected will work wonders. Remember, you are the foot in the door for your business without your pitch, the customer will have to do their own research to find out who you are and what you do. The likelihood of them doing this is very small. So why not put your best foot forward and practice your performance? Yes, delivering a pitch is a performance and you are going to go for the Oscar. Beyond the pitch, you must also prepare a list of questions they might ask.

Make a list and rehearse your answers. The devil is always in the details when it comes to doing business. If your product or service does not fit, then no business. It is your job to work the benefits with emotional appeal. Speaking is just the first part of your performance you also have to think about your body language. If you say one thing and your body says and other than the person you're presenting to will be confused.

In the next lesson. Five lies your body is telling others we will explore body language and how to make it work for you and increase your stay