PUBLIC SPEAKING / PRESENTATIONS 11Extra Tips Here are some valuable ideas that will improve Your Presentations! EXTRA SPEAKING TIPS Here are tips that will improve your presentations.
PUBLIC SPEAKING / PRESENTATIONS
11Extra Tips
Here are some valuable ideasthat will improve
Your Presentations!
EXTRA SPEAKING TIPSHere are tips that will improve your presentations.
EXTRA SPEAKING TIP #1JOIN TOASTMASTERS! Great place to learn the basics with lots of support.! Visit several clubs before joining because they each have their own distinct qualities.
EXTRA SPEAKING TIP #2!Use MIND MAPPING to Develop, Practice and Deliver your presentation.! Non-linear, visual, brain storming tool that brings together the left, linear and right, creative sides of our brain.! This is the ʻSwiss Army Knifeʼ for the Brain.
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My Speech
LINEAR or DIAGRAM! The problem with going linear to develop a speech is that weʼre trying to organize thoughts before we develop them. ! Our brains donʼt think this way.! In this case, IIIB should be ID.
MainSubject
Sub-Topic
Sub-Topic
Sub-TopicSub-Topic
Sub-Topic
Mind Map
MIND MAPPING! This is a basic mind map with the main subject in the center and sub-topics radiating from the center.
www.mastermindmapper.com
MIND MAPPING! This is a Speakerʼs Template
mastermindmapper.com
EXTRA SPEAKING TIP #3HANDOUTS! Donʼt hand them out unless a workshop.! They become a distraction to your talk.
EXTRA SPEAKING TIP #4HUMOR! If done well, can be like icing on a cake.! Tough! ! If say Iʼll be funny and not, theyʼll be laughing at me rather than with me.
EXTRA SPEAKING TIP #5PROPS! Can enhance! Rule! ! Put away when finished! Example: Hat speech - Each hat indicates a ʻHatʼ we wear in our lives! Sometime best prop is NONE - Example - Picture your favorite Coffee Cup
EXTRA SPEAKING TIP #6PRACTICE! Malcolm Gladwell - 10,000 hours to be an expert - Michael Phelps! Practice makes perfect - Perfect practice makes perfect - The road to perfection never ends.
Practice in mirror, video, audio, friends and family. Join Toastmasters.
EXTRA SPEAKING TIP #7TIMING! Respect the program and time of others! Have talk in modules
EXTRA SPEAKING TIP #8BUZZ WORDS! NO buzz words or jargon.! You wonʼt impress an audience - youʼll lose them.! Simple is best.
EXTRA SPEAKING TIP #9WATER! For cotton mouth! ! Room temperature - NOT ice water, NOT hot tea of coffee.! ! Lozenges! ! ! NOT cherry - red tongue!
EXTRA SPEAKING TIP #10CONSTANTLY take TEMPERATURE of the audience! Facial Expressions! Body language! ASK - ʻDoes that make sense?ʼ! ! May have to re-state in a different manner
EXTRA SPEAKING TIP #10QUESTIONS! NOT after conclusion! ! The CONCLUSION is the CONCLUSION - Period.! Throughout talk or time set aside for them
EXTRA SPEAKING TIP #11POWER POINT! What DIDNʼT you see in my slides?! ! Lots of text and bullet points - “YOU supply the text!” ! ! Reading text doesnʼt reinforce message, it confuses it.! Donʼt use fancy build-ins, build outs and transitions
! CLEAN and SIMPLE is best
Fred E. MillerWriter - Speaker - Coach
Public Speaking and Presentation Skills
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