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Nearly 50 landscape contractors were on hand at 8:30 a.m. Thursday for the Communicating with Confidence seminar sponsored by Professional Grounds Management Society (PGMS), Baltimore, Md. The featured speaker was Melody Templeton, president of Templeton Consulting, Kimberton, Pa. Attendees came to gain skills they could apply while giving sales presentations, training programs, speeches at trade shows, and for more confidence when speaking in general.
According to Templeton, the first thing most people do when they hear they have a presentation to give is to try to get out of doing it. That is followed by panic before the presenter actually starts to prepare.
The first action a person should take after finding out he must give a presentation is to sit down and brainstorm for 15 minutes and take notes, Templeton says.
The thing is, your brain continues to work on it even though you don’t realize it, she says.
Read more on the Lawn & Landscape magazine site
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