A Speaker’s Template – SEE The BIG PICTURE
ByUse this Speaker’s Template to
Develop, Practice and Deliver Your Presentation
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This Speaker’s Template gives you the Big Picture. Your entire speech is on a single page.
It’s a great visual to ‘See’ how the Content of a Speech should be constructed and all the pieces ‘fit’ together.
We think in terms of pictures. By using icons, images and colors, it’s easy to work on the separate modules of your presentation.
Literally, and physically, the entire speech can be on one page. This has many advantages over note cards and sheets of lined paper. Rather than using a Linear Outline Form to develop your talk, this template shows how the parts flow from Title to Close.
This diagram was constructed using Mind Mapping software which greatly helps the process of developing, practicing and delivering a speech.
Use a Mind Mapped Speaker’s Template to Develop, Practice and Deliver your speech and it will be absolutely, positively – No Sweat!
About the Author:
Fred E. Miller coaches, speaks and writes about Public Speaking and Presentation Skills.
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This is an outstanding resource Fred. It is amazing how fast I was able to learn something from looking at that mind map. Very intuitive.
One question — it appears that you have a “SPEECH TITLE” as the first order of business. I have found that I usually end up changing the SPEECH TITLE at the end so I have moved it to the end of my presentation building workflow. I usually begin by giving the speech a generic, boring title and then try to spice it up at the end.
What are your thoughts?
Hi Fred,
Glad to see you put this incredible template out there for everyone to get the value from it. I love what the mind mapping strategy did for me in moving my business forward. This speakers template is excellent as it allows one to see it all in one view…incredilble as it keeps you on track!
Great post Fred. Thanks a million!
Fred,
This is great! You can visually see the process of what great talks are all about. If people are looking to make an impact they should definitely hire Fred as their coach.
Great template Fred – love the mindmap. It lays out the basics of a well formatted speech very nicely.
Your comment about the title is correct, Russ.
I change the title of this template several times.
My intention with the Speaker’s Template was to keep it as clean and simple as possible.
Thanks for visiting and your insight about the title.
Thanks, Jennifer!
Joe: Thanks for the comment and plug!
Adam:
Thanks for visiting and the comment!
Hi Fred,
This is an interesting template. When I’m creating the concept for a speech, I usually use a mind map. It helps me to put things in their proper places.
If I were going to use notes ( I rarely do), I would prefer to have note cards or a speech. I’m not a visual learner, so I would be more confused looking at mind map.
I notice you have “tell a story” under each heading of “make a point”. Although stories do work, you can also use examples, statistics, case studies, quotes, etc … after you’ve made a point.
Keep up the good work.
John:
Thanks for visiting and your comment.
I ‘See’ what you mean.
Thanks for the good ‘Points’!
Fred, I think this is very helpful. I’ve seen the “write your own introduction” in action when you spoke, and love that idea. Rather than having someone stumble through an uninspired, on-the-spot intro, you gave them a funny, engaging intro that really set up your presentation.
Thanks for sharing!
Sharon:
Thanks for visiting and your comment!