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Follow This Simple Process To Transform Your Presentation Skills

Derek Hughes
5 min readFeb 16, 2023

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I used to be a terrible public speaker.

I’d read from my notes. Be too long and boring. I was fascinated by my material but my audience obviously wasn’t. I struggled to make the impact I wanted to.

But that’s all in the past.

Now I find people are so engaged with what I say that they ask me to coach them to become great speakers too.

How did that dramatic change happen? How did I go from being an awful, boring speaker to someone who is regularly asked to coach others?

It took time, but by following a simple process. I gradually got better and better until I reached the point that others recognised my skills and wanted to learn from me.

And if it worked for me, as bad as I was, it can definitely work for you too.

So here’s the simple 5 step process I followed that led to my transformation.

Step 1: Identify an aspect of presenting you want to work on

Firstly, identify one aspect of presenting you want to improve. In a sense it doesn’t really matter where you start because this is part of a longer journey. But key areas to think about are:

*how to tell a good story

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Derek Hughes
Derek Hughes

Written by Derek Hughes

I'm an old bloke with zero writing experience. In 18 months, I built a $35k writing business. Get my free 5-step system: https://www.derekhughes.biz/

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