Ebook: The Introverted presenter: ten steps for preparing and delivering successful presentations

The introvert is a personality type that draws energy from the outside inward. Introverts are congenitally programmed to recoil from the prospect of public speaking, yet making presentations to expert and non-expert audiences is an inescapable requirement for career advancement in any technical field. The sequence of steps for The Introverted Presenter begins with defining your presentation's audience and objective. The next step is to write the script of your speech in stages, constructing it on the basis of proven structural rules, cognitive laws, and dramatic tricks. Then refine and tighten your script by delivering it iteratively, first in front of a mirror and then in front of increasingly critical test audiences. When you have a well-constructed and sound-tested script in hand then, create some slides to graft into your script in support of your opening action call and your concluding takeaways.;Introverts and presentations -- Feared more than death -- Your objective -- Presentation structure -- Writing your speech -- Refining -- Presenting tips -- How to love technology -- Primacy and latency -- Prepare for performance -- Time to shine -- The aftermath -- The last-minute panic.