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Lessons from a Street Performer
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I was in Boston last week and had an opportunity to do some sightseeing.
Around the famous Faneuil Hall Marketplace there were several street performers.
They’re mostly very good.
One was O-U-T-S-T-A-N-D-I-N-G!
The Content of his performance was juggling.
The Great Delivery was what set him apart from the majority of street performers.
I was reminded of Delivery Lessons all great speakers should emulate.
Here they are: Read More→
BLOG!
It will make you a Better Speaker!
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Blogging (Writing) and Speaking Go Hand-in-Glove.
They are both communication skills a speaker needs to continually sharpen.
Writing is a great way to develop, and make better, the content of your presentations.
The analogy is: “If you really want to learn about a subject – Teach It!
The same holds true for blogging.
I know the subject of Public Speaking and Presentations. I’m an expert in this field. I’ve practiced and studied it for years. However, each and every time I write a new blog Post, I add Read More→
The ‘Show-Before-The-Show’
Warm up the Audience Before the Emcee Speaks!
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This does it for My audiences! What do You do?
This Slide Show and Music will be playing when people enter the room I’ll be speaking in.
What effect do you think it has on them? My thoughts are that it reminds many of them why they chose to attend. It preps them for the information I’m going to deliver. Read More→
I Get Ideas for My Presentations,
But Forget Them!
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Use a Digital Recorder to
Capture those thoughts ‘In the Moment!’
None of us have the great memories we wish we had.
We’re exercising, walking, driving or maybe just sitting at a coffee shop and an idea for a speech, or a story to make a point in one, comes to us. We don’t have a pen or paper handy, but we mentally promise ourselves to start working on it when we have the opportunity. Many times that doesn’t happen because we forget that great idea – Bummer!
Yoga teaches to be ‘Always present and In the Moment’. This makes great sense for speakers because what’s happening NOW might be potential material for a new presentation or a delivery technique to add to a speech already in your ‘portfolio’.
Great speakers always update their material and consider all the speeches and techniques they ‘own’ to be works in progress.
Too many ideas have gone unused because they haven’t been ‘recorded’ for future use. Read More→
Connect with Your Audience Emotionally
and You’ve Got Them!
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“I’m a Failure!” is a great example.
Read on!
My good friend and internet mentor, Russ Henneberry, is an internet expert.
Russ Henneberry
He develops, and helps others develop: web sites, blogs, email marketing campaigns, social media campaigns, and many other things related to internet marketing. He really knows his stuff!
Russ holds a monthly MeetUp named, TINY BUSINESS, MIGHTY PROFITS and has established himself as an authority in this area. Part of his plan for ‘proving his status as an expert’ is the speaking he does at the MeetUps. They are so well attended, he’ll probably need the seating the Fox Theatre in St. Louis affords in the near future.
From the get-go, Russ connected with his audience on an emotional level.
At his first MeetUp, he announced we would go around the room and give everyone an opportunity to introduce themselves with their elevator speech. Russ then said, “I’ll go first.”
Here’s what he said:
“I’m an entrepreneur, teacher, son, father, husband, and . . . I’m a Failure.” Read More→
Nine Ways to Guarantee
Your Presentation BOMBS!
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If You Absolutely Want to BOMB!
- Don’t practice your presentation.
- You’ve given it before – no big deal.
- Don’t visit the facility before your talk.
- Don’t find out what style of seating is in place and don’t rearrange if not best for you.
- Don’t check the lighting; natural or in-room.
- Don’t find out where the temperature controls are located or who to call to adjust heating and cooling. Read More→
Here’s how an EXPERT uses PowerPoint
Posted by: | CommentsI used to be the Poster Boy for very b-a-a-a-d PowerPoint/Keynote presentations.
If there were 20 slide transitions available – I’d use 19 of them.
If there were 15 build-ins and build-outs within those slides available – I’d use 14 of them.
I would use 8 different fonts and put them into all different colors, plus make some bold, italic, strikethrough, underlined, and subscript others. Whatever cool thing was available – I used it!
Garr Reynolds is a guru of Presentations. His book, Presentation Zen, was a real eye opener for me.
This video of a presentation at Google, at 72 minutes, is a long one – and worth every second!
Enjoy!
OK. They asked me to Speak.
What do I talk about?
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Start with Passion and Knowledge . . .
You first choice is to have the opportunitiy to talk about a subject you are passionate about. Ideally, it’s also a subject about which you possess a high degree of knowledge .
It might be work, family, or health related. The topic could be a personal hobby, charitable cause, or lifetime goal.
If it’s something you’re enthusiastic about, it’s much easier to prepare, practice and deliver that talk. You already ‘know the stuff’, so getting the latest information (you always have up-to-date material, don’t you?) isn’t a great challenge. You know how, when and where to look.
Injecting emotion into the talk won’t be an effort, either, because Read More→
Speech Content – Part #5
The Conclusion
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Two Elements Here:
Tell them what you told them.
Close your speech.
One of the ways to reinforce a message with the goal of the audience ‘Getting It!’ is to repeat that message.
This is why the first part of the Conclusion is to ‘Tell them what you told them.” Restate, in a slightly different manner, the main points of the message you want the audience to take away.
Repetition is one of the best ways to Read More→
Speech Content – Part #1
The Title
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Think of your Speech Title as if it were the Title of a Book;
displayed on a shelf at
Barnes & Noble.
When someone is eyeing the selection on the shelves in the section where they have an interest, yours should jump out at them!
The Title should jump out so much that the person actually takes the book from the shelf, reads the back cover, and opens it to read the front and back flaps.
After “investigating” the book (i.e., your speech) because the title grabbed their attention, they “buy” it; that is, they come to see you speak because they want to learn more!
Unless you’ve given this lots and lots of thought, pencil the title to your speech in. Remember, this must Read More→
