How to Speak
- This will ensure success in your life.
- Knowledge(x3) + Practice(x2) + Inherent Talent(x1)
- How to start ?
- Don’t start with a joke, start with a promise of empowerment.
- 4 samples
- Cycle around the subject to make it register in their heads.
- Build a fence around the subject, so it is not confused with other similar subject.
- Give pauses of 7 seconds for people to come back to what you were talking.
- Ask questions to intrigue interest, dont ask obvious or veryhad questions. Mostly open questions ?
- Tools
- Time and place - brightly lit, feel full
- Dont just throw a complicated diagram at people, build it along, that way they are not overwhelmed.
- Not too many words on slides.
- Reduce distractions on the screen. Title, logo, background, bullets, blah blah
- Dont lose contact with your audience, use arrows instead of doing a pointer.
- Hapax Legamannon
- How do you inspire people?
- Exhibit passion about what you are doing.
- Show contrast
- Trust building
- Have a vision - problem that someone cares about it
- Has done something
- Show steps
- Talk about constraints
- Getting famous
- Why?
- How?
- Symbol associated with your work.
- Slogan
- Surprise
- Salient - idea that sticks out
- Story on why and how
- How to stop
- Final slide and words
- Maybe a joke to make peopoe feel they had fun.
- Final slide and words
Questionnaire for feedback
- Was I talking too much ? - points to the idea that you had too much going on in the slides.
- Was it confusing ?
- What action did you take or would take after the talk ? - Checkempowerment. Did I live up to the promise ?