Presentation Skills for a New Conversation

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This is another one of Chris Brogan's 100 blog topics that has had me thinking. There are so many ways to interpret this topic.


I have decided to focus on the preparation skills required for a new conversation. I think that is one of the skills that is not thought about as often as it should be when we are about to engage in a new conversation.


Most of us do tend to prepare for each and every conversation though. Just maybe not as much as we should!


This is a list of what I believe are some of the presentation skills required for a new conversation:

1. Consider who your audience is
2. In line with considering who your audience is, use an appropriate language directed towards that audience. After all, the conversation is not going to get very far if one party only understands every second word!
3. Timing. Give yourself enough time to respond intelligently. You also need to give the other person time to respond.
4. Know your subject. You do not want to come across as being unprofessional or naive.
5. Present your personality dependent on who the audience is. In some circumstances you may need to come across as extremely confident, but in other circumstances that same confidence may be perceived as arrogance.

That is my top 5 list of presentation skills needed for a new conversation. Do you have any to add that I haven't considered?