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Take This Presentation Skills Assessment

Discover Your Strengths And Weaknesses As A Speaker

This assessment is meant to quickly provide you with the big picture in your presentation skills. It will help you begin to identify your strong points as a speaker, reveal your needed development areas and provide a focus for our first coaching session. It will also serve as a launching point for understanding how the presentation coaching process will unfold. I believe that presentation training begins the moment you begin completing this assessment. Understanding how presentations work, becoming aware of possibilities, knowing yourself, seeing the big picture, and expanding and sharpening your mental game toolkit as a speaker all begin now. This assessment is very simple and easy to complete, and should take you around 5 minutes.

If you've hired me as your presentation coach, please fill out this form and press the Submit button at the end of the assessment to email this back to me before our first coaching session. You may also use this form for your self-analysis, to begin working on your speaking skills.

Here's how to complete the following 87-item Presentation Skills Assessment.

1. Review this list of presentation topics and select the number 1 next to the items that seem MOST important and URGENT to you to be WORKED ON FIRST.

2. Select the number 2 next to those that seem NEXT most important to work on.

3. Select the number 3 next to those that seem to be in the THIRD TIER of importance.

4. Leave a blank space next to those which DON'T seem to be important now, or at all, or which DO NOT APPLY to you.

5. Select the QUESTION MARK (?) next to those with which you are unfamiliar and would like clarification.

6. If there are any areas or concerns you would like to address NOT LISTED here, please enter them in the Questions or Comments section at the end of this form.

7. Please be sure to print this page after you have entered your responses and BEFORE you click the Submit button, so you'll have a record of your responses. I have found that our repeated review of this assessment is quite helpful in allowing you to continue to see new presentation skills vistas. Here we go with the assessment.

 

Presentation Skills Assessment

Which of these 87 presentation issues would you like to know more about, get under control and master? Which ones are holding you back from reaching your full speaking potential?

Please select the appropriate entry for each issue.
1 = most important, 2 = next most important, 3 = third tier of importance,
blank = not important or doesn't apply, ? = needs clarification.

Name and e-mail address are required entries.

 
  Name:    
  E-mail address:    
 
  1.   Controlling Choking, Panic Attacks, Nerves And Stage Fright

  2.   Improving Confidence

  3.   Learning Mental Toughness

  4.   Recovering From Mistakes Better

  5.   Performance Consistency

  6.   Removing A Self-Critical Attitude

  7.   Reducing Frustration, Fears, Or Worries

  8.   Fixing A Negative Attitude

  9.   Removing Mental Blocks

  10.   Dealing With Slumps, Brown-Out And Burnout

  11.   Improving Motivation

  12.   Getting Into The Zone

  13.   Dealing With Unmotivated, Negative And Hostile Participants

  14.   Pre-Speech Mental Preparation

  15.   Goal Setting

  16.   Concentration

  17.   Stress Management

  18.   Controlling Energy Levels

  19.   Mental Stamina

  20.   Resolving The "I Perform Well In Practice, But Not In The Presentation" Syndrome

  21.   Improving Practice Efficiency And Effectiveness

  22.   Staying Relaxed And Focused Under Pressure

  23.   Reducing Self-Consciousness And Shyness

  24.   Self-Coaching Skills

  25.   Reducing Self-Sabotage

  26.   Minimizing Perfectionism

  27.   Stopping Procrastination

  28.   Dealing Effectively With The Media

  29.   Visualization And Mental Rehearsal

  30.   Positive Thinking

  31.   Overcoming The Fear Of Failure

  32.   Overcoming The Fear Of Success

  33.   Credibility

  34.   Authenticity

  35.   Audience Analysis

  36.   Room And Stage Set Up

  37.   Audio-Visual Factors

  38.   Handouts And Other Audience Materials

  39.   Question And Answer Sessions

  40.   Speech Title Selection

  41.   Speech Research

  42.   Speech Organization

  43.   Speech Writing and Editing

  44.   Audience Rapport And Connection

  45.   Props And Costumes

  46.   Speaker Image Management

  47.   Speaker Notes And Memory Strategies

  48.   Audience Memory And Organization Devices

  49.   Presentation Timing And Planning

  50.   Speaker Introduction

  51.   Speech Opening

  52.   Adult Learning Strategies

  53.   Body Language

  54.   Eye Contact

  55.   Humor, Stories, Music And Magic

  56.   Pacing And White Space

  57.   Audience Involvement Exercises

  58.   Vocal Variation, Volume And Tone

  59.   Pronunciation

  60.   Understandability

  61.   Accent Reduction

  62.   Enthusiasm, Passion And Involvement

  63.   Persuasiveness And Influencing Skills

  64.   Contingency And Emergency Plans

  65.   Content Transfer Issues

  66.   Content And Entertainment Mix

  67.   Strong Closing

  68.   Creating Products And Services

  69.   Selling From The Platform

  70.   Back Of The Room Products And Services

  71.   Keynote vs. Breakout vs. Workshop Styles

  72.   Making a Call to Action

  73.   Marketing And Public Relations

  74.   Creating Your Brand as a Speaker

  75.   Using Video and Audio and Other Speaker Feedback Strategies

  76.   Getting Paid To Speak Or Raising Your Fee Level

  77.   Finding Speaking Markets

  78.   Presentation Strategies For Politicians

  79.   Presence And Charm

  80.   Working With Your Presentation Coach

  81.   Using Speaking as a Business Marketing Strategy

  82.   Using Speaker Rating Forms

  83.   Working as a Master of Ceremonies

  84.   Appearing on Radio and Television

  85.   Speaking on the Web

  86.   Working with Meeting Planners

  87.   Working With Speakers Bureaus

 
  Here are the two most critical questions to think about and
answer to help us guide our presentation skills coaching
process. Enter your answers in the boxes provided below.

 
  1. What are the top 3-5 issues you are facing now that are holding you
back, which you would like to immediately begin working on?
 
   
 
2. Once you successfully make headway on these issues, how would that
positively improve your presentations and what would that mean to you?
 
   
 
Questions or Comments:
 
   
  Please be sure to print this page after you have entered all of your
responses but BEFORE you click the Submit button. Then click
Submit to send us your responses via email.
 
     

If there are any other presentation issues that come up for you prior to our first coaching session, please write them down and we will address them. Feel free to contact me at any time if you have any questions or concerns. I'm here to help you. I am very excited about working closely with you on your speaking.

This is a fascinating, fulfilling journey you are about to embark upon, one which will have far-reaching effects on your career and on your life.

It will be my privilege to be at your side every step of the way.

Your Presentation Skills Coach,

Bill Cole, MS, MA
CEO and Founder
Procoach Systems


P.S.: Once you submit this assessment, and hire me to begin presentation coaching, I will send you our other in-depth, proprietary, 212-item presentation skills assessment, to help us pinpoint the exact issues and reasons that are holding you back from peak performance in your speaking. As part of the presentation coaching process, that 212-item comprehensive assessment carries no additional charge. From these two assessments, and based on our initial phone interview, we will create a master presentation skills strategy to bring your speaking dreams to reality.

Learn more about our Presentation Skills Coaching Services.

Presentation Skills Assessment  
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