Losing Your Place

I encourage my clients to rarely (if ever) use notes when they present. Having nothing in your hands projects confidence and frees you up to communicate with your whole body.

But what happens if you lose your place in front of an audience? How do you recover?

1. Take a breath.
2. Find an ally in the audience and look them in the eye. 3. Smile.
4. Remember why you’re there. Tell the audience.
5. Pick up from the first thing you remember.

The net-net: Audiences love mistakes.

All an audience wants to know is that you’re a living, breathing human, that you know what you are there to do, and that you can recover.