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Effectively practice a presentation
How to Practice a 5 minute group presentation
If you're still working on memorizing your script, then only read off of paper or notecards. No phones because phones = distration.
Have one person start the recorder and record the entire 5 minute presentation on the voice recorder on your phone.
Put the recording phone on the table, and everyone else put your phones away.
Present as if it's the real deal. Visualize your success.
Each of you have a pen and paper ready for the review session, so you can take notes about your own words and delivery.
After the presentation, take a little break, high five each-other. Take a moment to feel good about how far you've come.
Regroup and sit down together. Play back the audio. Listen to yourself carefully. Ask yourself, do your words sound like you? Are any sentences too big of a mouthful? Are you noticing that your words are changing a little bit from your script? That means your brain knows better.
This will take around 15 minutes for setup, presenting, and reviewing.
Do this 3 times in a row and then take a longer break. Shake it off, get some water, bathroom, fresh air.
With focus, you can get between 6-10 rounds of practice in before lunch!
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