SouFBP

I can help Finance Teams on 2 ways
👊 I work as a FP&A Freelance on mid to long term assignments
👊 I help Finance Professionals train their storytelling and presentation skills

Thanks to a wisely crafted training program, your FP&A team can learn how to
- prepare their message: get the main insight from their analysis
- prepare the story: use a framework to deliver a clear and convincing story
- prepare their visuals: learn design techniques and tools to build clean slides and graphs
- prepare themselves: master the delivery of a presentation and switch to discussion facilitator when needed

Founder

Proximus

Responsible of Strategic Finance for the Consumer Business Unit, I helped
- building our 5 years strategic plan
- designing key objectives in our priorities: Fiber, 5G, market share
- working on innovative projects (eHealth, eEducation,...)

All that with transversal teams composed of Finance, Marketing, Sales and Strategic advisors

Finance Manager Strategic Projects CBU

	Budgeting and Forecasting (Short to Long Term): new modelization including business assumptions
	Monthly Reporting and Variance Analysis vs Budget/Forecast/Last Year
	Assistance and review of Business Cases (New product Launch, Investments,…)
	Business Strategic KPI’s Settings and Follow up 
	Development of Automatic and Comprehensive Reports (usable for all Stakeholders)

Finance Business Partner EBU Mobile at Proximus

Deloitte Belgium

Manager

Leisure and Travel Industry (Zwijnaarde): Business Controller
Plastics Manufacturing (Kontich): Cost Controller
Leisure and Hotels (Brussels): Financial Controller
Gas (Vilvoorde): Financial Professional
Manufacturing (Aalst): Treasury Officer
Consultancy (Diegem): Treasury Responsible

Experienced Senior

Groupe Vlan

•	Follow-up of general costs and production costs (printing, paper, set up and distribution)
•	Follow-up of commissions charged and turnover granted by national advertising distributor
•	Monthly analysis of reportings per product (titles)
•	Follow-up of legal updates (Accounting Law, Corporate Law, Taxes,…)
•	Participation to yearly budgets 
•	Setting up of Closing Procedures
•	One-off requests (Business Object queries, financial calculations,…)

Financial Controller

PricewaterhouseCoopers

•	Industry department: Main Clients: Sodexo Pass Belgium, Bosch, European Air Transport (DHL), Pharma Belgium,…
•	Organisation of audit engagements as in-charge and coach of junior members
•	Specialised in revenue recognition of services companies
•	Assignments both in French and in Dutch

Senior Auditor

I train Finance Teams at Soft Skills | Corporate Training Facilitator | Course Instructor | Keynote Speaker

I followed all the usual steps to become an efficient finance professional
- mastering reporting, dashboarding and automation
- striking with business drivers integration
- killing it with financial modelisation

Then I discovered that all of this was not enough to make an impact: if you want to have an influence on decision making process YOU MUST CONVINCE

This is why I want to help Finance Professionals to convince their audience thanks to kickass presentations

Be one of the firsts to know about the development of that training on http://www.soufbp.com

FREE Course on Storytelling (a real one)

Start your journey with Financial Storytelling Basics

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Presentations are a challenge for you?
You feel nervous and stressed?
You don't know what to say and how?

Learn the basics of Financial Storytelling with this free crash course

In this free course, you'll get in your mailbox 7 videos (1 per day)
✅ Day 1 - The 4-Step Approach
✅ Day 2 - The 3 What Method
✅ Day 3 - Segment your Audience in 2 Groups
✅ Day 4 - Prepare Alternative Stories
✅ Day 5 - PowerPoint - Use CTRL and SHIFT
✅ Day 6 - Managing Stress (before and during the presentation)
✅ Day 7 - Ready for the Next Steps?

Get the basics so that presentations are no longer a challenge for you.

To get it, nothing easier
- Like this post 
- Add a encouragement comment to help this post being seen (by tagging someone who needs to see it for example)
- Go and enroll on https://lnkd.in/emqicPEz

And I'll enroll you in the course

PS: You can also ask your questions here and I'll gladly answer

Soufyan Hamid

Presentations don't mean slides

You can give a presentation without slides

But slides without you are just a report

Observe my reasoning in the document below 

And tell me what you think in the comments 👇

So slides are a good tool for your presentation

But it's not the goal in itself

And if you want to find out more about the goal of a presentation

𝗕𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗳 😉

Presentation Vs Slides 

The Financial Storytelling Program is in Singapore 

I had the pleasure to deliver my course to a group of 13 ultra motivated finance pros at the other side of the world

Coming from companies like Volvo, Accor, Abbvie or BlueLeaf, they all had 1 thing in common: they applied for the training after discussing with their manager on how to get to the next level after an already successful career in Finance

And they sure will get there with what they proved during the day

1. Getting the message from the use case in teams, they got the techniques to transform an information into an actionable insight

2. After analysing the audience with role plays,  they could structure their story and prepare alternatives in case something goes wrong

3. With the design best practices in hands, they prepared the slides for their final presentation

4. 3 volunteers accepted to take their chances and help us understand how to practice and deliver a presentation 

And the final touch, this awesome group delivered their group presentations in a realistic setup.

I consider myself lucky to have had such a motivated group

And their feedback fills me with pride

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The activities, interactions with team members and most importantly the feedbacks received during the workshop.

Thinking about training your teams' storytelling skills?

Just contact me 😉

Everybody's telling you to show your Finance data in visualizations

But what chart do you use for what?

83%* of Finance professionals 𝘄𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄
- I've seen stacked bar charts for averages that can't sum
- I've seen line charts for comparing categories
- I've seen pie charts to compare over time

And who can blame them?

I can't because I've been there too

So if you want to know which chart to use when

Just follow this decision tree from 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗻 𝗣𝘂𝗴𝗹𝘀𝗲𝘆** from 𝗞𝗗𝗡𝘂𝗴𝗴𝗲𝘁𝘀 that will help you decide according to the story you want to tell

▶️ Comparisons 
▶️ Changes over time
▶️ Trends in a quantitative dataset
▶️ Highlighting a single measure

It's much easier to know what to use especially because in Finance

we don't need much more than the basic ones: Line, Bar, Pie charts and Scorecards

and hopefully, next you'll have to prepare a slide deck, your graphs will be in line with the 𝗺𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗶𝘃𝗲

PS: If you want to continue having tips on finance presentations, follow me 🔔

* Thanks to Barney Stinson for this statistic
** couldn't find a way to tag him properly. If you find him on Linkedin, please tag him in the comments for this awesome view

4️⃣ ways to use your hands
4️⃣ reasons to use your hands
4️⃣ don'ts
4️⃣ do's
👇

Because what you do with your hands when you are in front of the audience will improve how people follow your presentation

And this simply because

▶️Using your hands can help you better emphasize important points and help your audience understand the key ideas of your presentation

▶️Gesturing with your hands can help you maintain the audience's attention and keep them engaged

▶️Using your hands can also help you convey emotions and make your presentation more dynamic and engaging

▶️Finally, using your hands can help you appear more confident and in control during your presentation

Of course, as I always recommend, keep it 𝘀𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲 and 𝘀𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿

Don't start to gesticulate in all directions because it will distract the people in front of you and your message will become secondary

So observe the best practices with the 4 do's and don'ts 👇

But I can't just leave you without my 4 ready-to-use techniques
- the fireball 🔥
- the balance ⚖️
- the counter ✌️
- the scale 🪜

and as these are personal techniques, I am pretty sure you have yours

So I am curious to discover your ways to use your hands 👇

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗮𝗱𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗴𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗵𝗶𝘀/𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻?

 The Finance Circle - Hands in a presentation

Keynote at IMA Europe : check ✅ 

Storytelling is for everyone, not just for CFOs

If that was the case, I'd still be a report maker

But I was lucky I had a mentor who emphasized the importance of storytelling in my career

And that's why, today, I pushed finance leaders present at the conference to cascade storytelling mindset to their teams

We have a responsibility to mold the finance leaders of tomorrow and spread financial literacy through the whole organisation 

And storytelling is key to do that

I want to thank Alain Mulder for giving me the opportunity to speak to European members of IMA and for the incredible organisation 

Curious about how you can implement storytelling mindset in your teams?

Contact me 😉

#IMAEurope24

Storytelling won't hide the misery

If your data is crap

Your story is crap

This is why you have to start with a strong analysis

How do you do that?

Share your experience with me 👇

# 19 in Belgium and # 1 in Corporate Finance

Guess I must be doing something good 😄

Rankings are rankings and mean what they mean

But let's recognise it's always good as an ego boost

And who doesn't need one?

Speaking of ego boost: so much quality in Belgium 🇧🇪!

Pieter Slegers who is the reference in Investing
Kobe W. who shares the love of data viz with me
Stéphanie Reniers 🍀who will transform recruitment worldwide
Guillaume Boutin who started as Proximus CEO when I worked there 
Fernanda 🌟 Carcamo who challenges the way I look at recruiting

And so many others who I know less personally...

...and others who'd deserve to be there (my first thought: Kris Heyndrikx and Henny Speelman)

Now what will this do to me? 

Concretely, not much!

People judge me on the work I provide and the quality of my trainings.

And so far, Belgium is a territory I am not yet successful in.

No one is prophet in his own country 😅

So my main objective for 2024 👇 

Train at least 10 Belgian companies (20% of the objective in progress)

Will you help me reach to 100%?

Free Resources on Storytelling

On my mission to make storytelling accessible

I share free stuff
- Tips & Tricks
- Opinions
- Frameworks

And recently, I revamped my website

So I make all of these available to you on it

You'll find
- The Ultra Guide Storytelling and Presentations For Finance
- The S.T.O.R.Y. framework for Finance Presentations
- Everything you can do in PowerPoint
- Finance Charts Cheat Sheet
- Steps to creating the Perfect Finance Chart in Excel
- Handling Difficult Questions and People

....and many more

You want it? It's simple
- React to this post to make it visible
- Write a comment and tag a person in your network who would benefit from it
- Go to my https://lnkd.in/e5ADN6PH

Hope you enjoy it 😉

For a lot of Finance people, colours in charts is only aesthetic!

But there is a reason why colours are important 👇

And it's 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴

Colours are important because
- they convey the underlying 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗹𝘆
- they set the tone and enforces a 𝗺𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗲
- they can turn a simple visualization into an 𝗲𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲

But because the human eyes and brain are trained and make automatic links, you have to respect some ground rules when using colours

1️⃣ 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀: think about the association of the colour
2️⃣ 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆: must be easy to read
3️⃣ 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: less is more
4️⃣ 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: avoid gradient colours for categories
5️⃣ 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆: keep the same colour code for the same data
6️⃣ 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆: use legends or labels to ease understanding

So next time you must build a chart, what will be your reflex when it comes to colours?

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Colours in data visualisations

S.T.O.R.Y. framework for Finance

5 letters to prepare your presentation

Select your message
Target your audience
Organize your thoughts
Review your visuals
Yield to questions

These are the most important steps for your presentation

S - Select your message

The most difficult for experts in finance 😕

I've seen many FP&A professionals wanting to deliver the full extend of their work but you have to choose what to communicate.

And choosing is refusing

T - Target your audience

Sounds natural but it's not. Generally, we prepare the same monthly presentation and we deliver it to different audiences.

Make sure to adapt to your audience, especially regarding seniority.

O - Organize your thoughts

Your presentation must follow a logical order that transforms it into a storyline.

There are many possibilities but I found the most adapted to finance is the
- What
- So What
- Now What

Thanks to it, you have all the information and can decide in which order you deliver it (according to the seniority of your audience)

R - Review your visuals

A presentation without visuals can be. But let's be honest, it's much better with slides that are well designed and have graphs that show the data you speak about.

A visual anchor will help the audience catch the message more easily and remember it.

Y - Yield* to questions

Before delivering your presentation, you must prepare for questions.

Because, you're going to get questions for sure.

And there are easy questions: they're around your message and you need to prepare 10 slides of backup (mentally, not especially in PowerPoint) for each slide you show.

But there are also difficult questions (or people) and for these, you need to prepare how to react rather than what to answer

👉 Which letter do you think is the most important?

📂 Bookmark this post and share it with your colleagues

* For this one, I'm not convinced so if you have a better idea than Yield to Questions, let me know 😉

 the STORY framework

Working on the last details of my presentation

Tomorrow, I'll have the chance to present 

Why and How Should CFOs Cascade Storytelling Mindset to Their Teams?

I will do that in Amsterdam at the IMA Europe European Conference

And I won't be alone

I'll have the chance to see again my friend Anders Liu-Lindberg and meet other interesting people 

But I need inspiration from you 👇

Why do you think it's important for CFOs to have teams storytelling skills trained?

Tell me in the comments 😉

𝗟𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘀𝗹𝗶𝗱𝗲𝘀?

Don't❗Here's something that 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽 𝘆𝗼𝘂

I know how 𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 it can be to work on PowerPoint when you were only trained to work with Excel

But believe me, working with slides will help you
- gather and structure your thoughts
- build a designed storyline
- focus on the important messages

So instead of rejecting PowerPoint because it takes too much time, train your skills to 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 spent on it

And thanks to these 5 easy steps , you will learn how to
- start before building your slides
- visually enhance your work
- save time with shortcuts
- use external plugins (not always possible on your corporate laptop)

And with that, I think you can already improve the way you use this tool

Get the PDF version of this sheet on https://lnkd.in/eJwAerwf

PS: the list of add-ins and plugins is big but I love Think-Cell. Which one do you like?

EVERYTHING you can do in Powerpoint 👇

Despite all posts saying "PowerPoint is dead"

It's well alive and super useful for professionals

and for good reasons
- It's part of the Microsoft Office Suite (so compatible with Excel)
- It has features nowhere else available (rehearsal coach,...)
- You can work with it offline

So let's go through the main tabs together

🏠 Home

The motherbase where you can select how you paste (pretty useful with pictures) but can also go further with direct access to SmartArt (hello Nicolas Boucher) and Arrange options (aligning, ordering,...)

↘️ Insert

Basically, everything you could insert:

Images (from computer but also from stock, clipboard or from search engines)

Shapes and Icons (don't use bullet points anymore)

Media (video and audio)

📹 Transition and Animation

Useful but also risky if you let your creativity take the lead

Use them carefully and only when it makes sense (list, or engagement of the audience)

💻 Slide Show

Too often underestimated, this the place where you'll find everything you need to prepare your presentation

Rehearse with a coach to get feedback on your performance

Record and use timings to assess your delivery

🔎 View

Slide Master is THE tool to make your slides look the same throughout your presentation.

Instead of copying-pasting your company logo in each slide, use this feature instead

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That’s about everything you can do in PowerPoint…

but there’s so much more and I only have 3,000 characters here.

What would you add?

Let us know in the comments below 👇

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Finance Charts Cheat Sheet

Of the 100 charts available, here are 7 you can use

🙏 Help me spread this free Cheat Sheet: like, share and comment!

You want to get the free PDF of this Cheat Sheet?
👉 Like and comment, and go to https://lnkd.in/etax8ZRA

And I do not only name them

Find out which charts to use and undersrtand
- their goals
- the type of data you need to use
- the pros and cons of their usage
- the key considerations
- when to use (and when not)
- the best practices
- the main use cases

So before jumping on your Excel file to build them, here's some that you want to know

1. Bar/Column Charts: Although many purists would disapprove, for a limited time (like 12 months), they can represent time value. Combined with a line, they're super powerful to explain to show Actuals vs Budget

2. Line Charts: when you show a flow (over a year for example), they're particularly good to show trends. Other good point: you can put multiple lines on the same chart and still be readable.

3. Pie Charts: the little ugly duck of the charts. No one likes them (except me) despite their ease of use and global understanding. They're not good for everything, but they are, they are.

4. Scatter Plot: Not to use in a final presentation but rather as a backup or in a working session. From it, deduce the conclusions and tell them (otherwise, you'll lose everyone)

5. Speedometer Chart (or any indication actually): When you want to show a performance vs a comparative (budget, last year,...), they do the job. Today, cards are more often used.

6. Bullet Charts: if you have a target to reach (especially if the targets are different for each bar), bullet charts can be very efficient.

7. Waterfall: will I have to convince you again how much I love them. The only chart who could possibly tell a story on its own. Of course, make sure the categories are self speaking enough and run away from the simple accounting categories.

Convinced this is helpful?
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Go and get your high resolution PDF in the comments?

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Working alone = Being alone?

Wrong 👇

One of the biggest fears you have when you think of starting an entrepreneurial career is to feel alone

No more colleagues

No more meetings

No more coffee breaks

And I had the same fear

I valued so much being in contact with people that remote working during the different lockdowns almost destroyed me

So that was the biggest obstacle when I started my journey

But quickly, I realised that the contacts I had in the past were somehow faked

And I'm sure you feel the same today
- forced meetings with people you don't like
- forced projects with people who don't share your vision and value
- an inherent competition with your colleagues for promotions

Today, I don't feel this anymore

Because today, I found real partners

People who are not competitors

People who genuinely care about developing each other 

People who I learn from and help me grow

And this weekend I had the chance to be with some of them in real life

We bonded more than ever and worked hard to make sure that all four come back home with new actions to develop their business and continue growing

So this post is to thank my "no-colleagues" 

Thank you for being there

You did/do an amazing job

And I recommend all my followers to give them a follow if you don't yet 😉

Your manager gives all the presentations?

Change that in 5 steps 😎

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A good way to impress your manager is to show him/her you have good notions of storytelling.
Start with the FREE course Financial Storytelling Basics
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Because your communication and visibility will position you as a leader and as and increase your personal branding!

And believe me, this is necessary to obtain opportunities in a company

So don't let the situation as is

And work on that with the 5 following tips

1️⃣ Express your interest
2️⃣ Show you can take a higher point of view
3️⃣ Prove your capability
4️⃣ Offer to help
5️⃣ Start at your level

Have a look at the document below (open it full screen to download it) to have more details and an example for each point 💾

Do that during 3 months in a row and you'll be able to convince your manager to take the next step

What would you add?

Five tips to start giving presentations

Netflix and Finance Professionals presenting

What do they have in common ❓

It's that all have to struggle against the 𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗻 of the human being

Netflix has built its whole business model by keeping the viewers as much as possible on their platform and yet have to invest efforts and money on finding ways to do so

When you know that the (allegedly) average attention span of a human in 2022 is lower than 8 seconds (lower than goldfish), the challenge is hard

Netflix research showed even that a typical member loses interest after 60 to 90 seconds when it comes to looking for content themselves

So how do these masters of taking your attention do to keep you using them up to the binge-using

1️⃣ Full storytelling in well organized units
2️⃣ Engaging Content
3️⃣ Content easily accessible:

So, what do we, as Finance Professionals, have to learn from that when we make a presentation?
1️⃣ Prepare a full story with smaller parts
2️⃣ Foresee the steps in your presentation
3️⃣ Make the montage for the audience

Tudummmm (Netflix style)

What do you think about this analogy?
Do you have techniques to keep the audience awake when you present the results of the month?
Let me know in the comments ⤵️

PS: it's not really like Netflix but my trainings are a real show for storytelling learners.
Prepare your season 2 (second semester) and contact me to train your teams

Netflix And Finance Presentations

𝗢𝗹𝗱 Finance professional vs 𝗡𝗲𝘄 Finance professional

The Old Finance professional

👎 More focused on 𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘀 than building relationships.
👎 Relies too heavily on 𝗻𝘂𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘀 and not enough on storytelling.
👎 Limited 𝗯𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝗰𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗻
👎 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 to change
👎 Works in 𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗼𝘀 and don't collaborate with other departments.

The New Finance professional

👍 Understands the importance of 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽𝘀 and making finance accessible to all.
👍 Uses 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 to make the numbers come alive and bring value to the business.
👍 Thinks holistically and is invested in the 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘀𝘂𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 of the company.
👍 Open to 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗲𝘀 and strategies to drive growth and innovation.
👍 Collaborates with other departments and work together to achieve 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗼𝗻 𝗴𝗼𝗮𝗹𝘀.

It's time to say goodbye to the old-fashioned finance professionals and hello to the new, dynamic finance professionals of the future.

Join the movement and become a business-minded, communicative, and innovative finance professional today!

And if you struggle to use storytelling and make engaging presentations, you know who to contact ✌

Warren Buffet was terrified of speaking in public

But he overcame that fear and here's how (and you can too)

Can you imagine the world's most successful investor once paralyzed by the fear of public speaking?

Difficult to picture it but he felt the same as you: presenting in front of others was a challenge

And yet, today, he's recognized for his public interventions. How'd he do that?

Early in his career, Buffett was terrified at public speaking. 

𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩 𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘦... 𝘐 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥𝘯'𝘵 𝘥𝘰 𝘪𝘵. 𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘸 𝘶𝘱... 𝘐𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘦.

Realizing the importance of communication in business, he knew he had to confront this challenge.

Buffett's decision to enroll in a course (from Dale Carnegie) marked the beginning of his transformation. 

This wasn't just about learning to speak in public; it was about mastering the art of storytelling and persuasion, skills that would prove invaluable in his investment career

Through determination and practice, Buffett not only overcame his fear but also became one of the most admired communicators in the business world

His annual shareholder letters and speeches are now celebrated for their clarity, wisdom, and wit

So no, not all great public speakers are naturals!

Buffett wasn't, but he trained!

I wasn't either, but I trained!

If you aren't, what will you do?

PS: I give you a hint on my website

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