March 12, 2010, 6:22 am

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Secret Strategies

This secret strategy is all about you.

What makes you tick? What puts a grin on your face? It's about doing what you value and what you're good at.

I recently realized - this is kind of a confession - that I'd spent far too much of my life treating myself as a self-improvement project. In the past, I only focused on getting better in my weakest areas.

Lately, I have switched gears. I have been focusing on what I'm good at. And doing more of that. And you're seeing the results in this very website. I'm great at seeing things structurally. It comes easily. I love it. I enjoy it. And it's exactly how I naturally think.
Now, this may or may not be true for you. I hope that this structural approach to growing your communication skills will help you make better and faster decisions about your presentations.

I hope that these blueprints and storyboards will make it easy for you to see the most direct road to profits in your business presentations. That's the benefit of presentation storyboards.

But why am I telling you this?

I want you to get in your groove. Find the thing that you do with your eyes closed. It's easy. No-brainer. It's fun. And everyone who knows you says, "I'd recognize that anywhere."

It's got YOU written all over it. This is your home zone.

Build your presentation plan to match your strengths. Organize your presentation delivery to match your strengths. Grow your business in ways that put a smile on your face. Because you are doing what you do naturally.

Once you do this, get ready for lift off! Things will fall into place. Things will start moving forward faster than you ever imagined.

Don't just believe me. Try it out for yourself.

Of course, if presentation strategy is not your "home zone" you know where to come. I'm happy to help. This is my strength. It doesn't have to be yours.

Just consider. If you are great at coaching, but accounting is not your strength, what would you do? Hire an accountant and focus on your coaching!
If you are great at coaching, but lousy at graphic design, what would you do?
Hire a graphic designer and get a great flyer that you can hand out to your clients.

Don't try to do everything yourself. Once you understand your strong suit, and value your strengths, hire out all the things that are not your natural strengths. Instead of making yourself and your presentations into a self-improvement project, you actually get to spend more time doing what you enjoy doing most!

Now that is the real secret strategy of successful presenters.

Just to recap:
1. Identify your strengths.
2. Do what you are good at and where you have natural strength.
3. Hire other people to do what is not your natural strength.