Have you ever been in an audience, either on Zoom or live and noticed that the presenter from time to time is pointing their finger at you? Don’t do it!
I’m Michelle Bowden, I’m an authority on persuasive presenting in business and welcome to, What Not To Do, a segment designed to help you get rid of all those annoying little habits that you’ve picked up as a business presenter.
Why shouldn’t you point your finger at the audience? Well, actually the pointed finger is known in presenting circles as Satir’s Blamer, and just as the name suggests, it’s blaming the audience.
What can you do instead?
If you’re passionate and the reason you’re poking your finger at people is because you’re feeling forceful about the matter, stay forceful, stay passionate, just open up your palm and pump with an open palm. This way you won’t find yourself pointing at anyone in the audience and threatening them without realising it. Open your palm, don’t point your finger.
Happy presenting & persuading!
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©2024 MICHELLE BOWDEN is an authority on persuasive presenting in business.
She’s run her Persuasive Presentation Skills Masterclass over 1000 times for more than 13,000 people over the past 25 years and her name is a synonym for ‘presentation skills’ in Australia.
Michelle is a multi-million-dollar pitch coach to her client list that reads like a who’s who of international business: banking and finance, IT, pharmaceutical, retail, telecommunications plus many more.
Michelle is the creator of the Persuasion Smart Profile®, a world-first psychological assessment tool that reports on your persuasive strengths and weaknesses at work, the best-selling internationally published author of
How to Present: the ultimate guide to presenting live and online (Wiley) and
How to Persuade: the skills you need to get what you want (Wiley).
