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Communication Toolkit for Introverts

By : Patricia Weber
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Communication Toolkit for Introverts

By: Patricia Weber

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Communication Toolkit for Introverts
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface

Making a presentation like a one-to-one conversation


Most authorities would agree that when it comes to one-to-one relationships and communication, introverts excel. We listen more, we focus, and we enjoy diving deep into a conversation. We can take actions like this, which come to us naturally in these situations and put them to advantageous use in any kind of presentation.

Some of the characteristics in a chart in Chapter 5, Your Headband Light - Succeeding in the Business Meeting, are worth returning to as we explore how to, in making a presentation more like a one-to-one conversation, become more at ease and successful. Here are the characteristics in that chart most germane to this discussion of improving our presentation poise and presence:

Extroverts

Introverts

  • Prefer face-to-face meetings

  • Think while talking

  • Talk more

  • More interested in people

  • Breath of discussion

  • Distracted

  • Prefer e-mail (or online) meetings

  • Talk after thinking

  • Listen more

  • More interest in ideas

  • Depth of discussion

  • Concentrate...