Prosperous Project Management: Honestly, Honesty is the best policy

Prosperous Project Management

Tips, techniques and pragmatic strategies for excellent Project Managers, Toastmasters and high personal achievers. Wayne Botha is a rare Project Manager, with passion for achieving results through Project Management, while improving inter-personal relationships, and developing Project Managers in the process. Wayne is a faculty member at Toastmsters Leadership Institute and Axia college of University of Phoenix.

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Honestly, Honesty is the best policy

Honesty.

I believe our audiences sense honesty. When you present your material and you are openly and honestly presenting what you believe in then your audience senses that you are relaxed and not covering up or acting.

Today I watched a presenter shared his plan for his department and the goals for 2008. We sensed he was being completely honest from his body gestures and when he occasionally answered a question with "I don't know".

Wow. Instead of trying to know all the answers, in the audience we felt his sincerity and honesty. Everyone in the room was relaxed.

How can you present honestly? Do you perhaps need to change the topics that you present on, so that you can present with honesty? Do you feel that you need to be someone else on stage and your are not the same person onstage and off stage?

Labels: Presentation Styles

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Name: Wayne Botha

Location: South Windsor, Connecticut, United States

Wayne Botha is one of those rare people who can say he is a project manager, author and speaker and mean it. He is a past Area Governor for Toastmasters International and an enthusiastic Toastmaster. Wayne is a faculty member of Toastmasters Leadership Institute and has trained audiences in South Africa, Netherlands, Saudi Arabia and the USA. With an MBA in eCommerce, and a PMP certification, Wayne is sought out to speak at Toastmasters and Project Management conferences. Wayne's colleagues and friends often tease him about his South African accent.