Step-by-Step: How to Be your own Presentation Coach

Coaching is as vital to a presenter as it is to a performer.  If you’re not seeing what your audience is seeing, you’re operating in the dark.  While you may get occasional “drive-by” coaching from a manager, a peer or at a workshop, without a consistent and clear way to gauge progress, many presenters fall back on old habits or end up reinforcing ineffective behaviors.  If you’re invested in your career you need to learn how to be your own presentation coach. 
Thanks to technology, coaching yourself is technically “easier than ever”, but there is still a huge barrier most people have when it comes to being objective about your performance.  Or even watching your own performance!
As an actor I hated seeing myself on video. 
Even if I had received accolades from audience members and directors,  all I could see when I watched were my flaws: a distracting hand gesture, facial