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Superstar Rajinikanth say thanks to aishwarya rai for acting with him by quoting a funny incident. very funny speech. don’t miss it.
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Peter Sage giving his insights on Public Speaking, business and life. Peter does not actually have a small head, it just looks that way due to angle that the sun is hitting the camera! Roastmasters group meeting – August 6th …
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Mr. Venkatesh, shares had stage fright and after coming to Success Point’s “World’s Greatest Presentation Skills & Public Speaking Course” He not only got rid of his social anxiety but also has become an amazing orator.
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Immigration – Global humanitarian reasons for current U.S. immigration are tested in this updated version of immigration author and journalist Roy Beck’s colorful presentation of data from the World Bank and U.S. Census Bureau. The 1996 version of this immigration …
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Statistics and data are an important part of your presentation. If misused, they can bore your audience to death. If used correctly, they can have a lasting impact.
So, how do you present data the right way?
Statistics and data are left brain food. They work well to support your logic and reasoning, and they do an excellent job at that. They add substance to your presentations and ground your claims to reality.
I compare data and stats to fruits and vegetables. They are what you need most to sustain your health, yet, they are not the most attractive to eat.
Data and stats feed your left brain, and they are good for you. However, the brain is divided into the left brain and the right brain. If you only feed your audience’s left brain, they will quickly become bored because you are only feeding them fruits and vegetables.
To feed your audience correctly without boring them, you have to balance the left brain and right brain food.
Right brain foods consist of 6 things
1 – Stories (Notice that stories are the top of the list)
2 – Analogies
3 – Metaphors
4 – Examples and case studies
5 – Demonstrations
6- Meaning (giving meaning and context)
You can compare the right brain food to appetizers and desserts. Not the healthiest things you eat, yet it’s what you crave the most.
To make your points with impact, use stats to support your logic and wrap up the points with one of the right brain foods listed above. Your presentation has to be a multi-course meal, balancing what people crave with what’s right for them.
Some people abandon stats and data all together and just use right brain food. I don’t recommend that, because, If you only feed the right brain of your audience, then they will be shallowly entertained and will miss out on the vitamins and minerals they need in the long term.
Example:
Left brain food only:
86 % of executives surveyed said that their presentation skills were crucial to their career success.
Right brain only:
Peter Drucker, the father of modern western business philosophy, once stated in an interview: “as soon as you move one step from the bottom, your effectiveness is directly correlated to your ability to communicate through the written and spoken word.”
Combined left brain + right brain food: This is the best way to present data
Public speaking and presentation skills are crucial to executive success. Peter Drucker, the father of modern western business philosophy once said in an interview: “as soon as you move one step from the bottom, your effectiveness is directly correlated to your ability to communicate through the written and spoken word.” The observation of Peter Drucker is backed up by many recent executive surveys. For example, a recent study of 1000+ executives by Distinction Communications indicated that 86% of participating executives attributed a direct correlation between their public speaking skills and their success as senior managers.
Do you see how a combination of left brain and right brain food is better than just one type of food?
Hope this is useful – As usual, to get the most out of these tips, try to put them to use right away.
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Hey! Wake up!
Do you have to present on a boring topic?
Let’s do something about that!
The first thing you need to know is that your topic is fine!
Initially, almost all my client’s say that their subjects are boring, and other people have more interesting topics. Whether they are presenting about Marketing, Economics, Biotechnology, Big Data, Quality Assurance, Deep Learning Algorithms, or Sales, they always point outside to other fields and departments and say that others have a more interesting topics than them.
If I buy into their premises, then there will be no interesting topics on this whole earth.
That’s why I share the belief of the English philosopher, G.K. Chesterton, that there are any boring topics out there; there are only disinterested audiences.
That’s closer to the truth. So, instead of blaming your topic for being boring, you can start to look for ways to stir your audiences interest (and seduce their minds.)
If your topic is not perceived as hot and sexy enough, then you need to speak about it with more confidence, authority and conviction and soon people will be interested. Think about it like this: if Tobacco Companies sold smoking cigarettes as sexy, I am very sure you can sell your topic too.
Here are some ways to help you get your audience interested in your topic:
How you start your presentation will determine if people listen to you or not. Two of the big questions your audience members have when they are in the room with you is “Why am I here?” “Why is this is important to me?”
If you don’t quickly tell them why they should care about the topic, then they will focus on other things they deem more important.
Simon Sink started a whole movement based on the idea that companies that explain the why of their product end up on top of the food chain. He stated in his famous Ted talk that the fundamental difference between the “Apples” of the world and everyone else is that Apple always starts with “why.”
Sinek based his idea on the fact that people are starving for meaning and relevance. I add that we live in a busy and noisy world, and your audience is careful with their time and attention. If you don’t show them the reason they should listen, then they will tune you out.
Now, starting with why does not mean that you forget about the why throughout the presentation. You have to keep connecting your topic to your audience’s interests throughout the talk.
Remember, your audience is always listening to one radio station: WIFM. What’s In it For Me. And to keep them interested in the topic, you have to keep tying your topic back to their interests.
If you think your topic is boring, then how can you expect anyone else to like it when you present.
It’s impossible.
People will detect your lack of passion, disinterest, and insecurities about the topic. Your disinterest is like a virus that spreads and infects everyone around you.
Besides, even if you hint that your topic is boring, you will be missing out on an enormous influence phenomena: It’s called Social Curiosity Driver.
The Social Curiosity Driver tells us that if other people show interest in something in front of you, then we will get curious too.
Example, you are walking down the street and you see ten people staring and pointing at the sky with amazed looks on their faces.
Would you be interested in finding out what they are looking at?
Of course, it’s human nature.
Now imagine leveraging that same phenomena in your presentations.
Next time you present get interested in your topic and don’t fake it; just tap into real interest, and you will see how this will peak the curiosity of your audience. They will be sitting there, saying to themselves, “I don’t know what she sees in the topic, but there must be something interesting here.”
Social Curiosity Driver is a biologically hardwired phenomena. Don’t miss out on it.
Remember, if you can’t get yourself interested in what you are talking about, there is no way you will get your audience to be interested.
Even, if you topic is boring – which is not.
Don’t be a boring person yourself.
Nearly every day, people ask you what you do for a living, you engage in conversation about your work, and maybe tell work-related anecdotes.
Sometimes our preconceived notions about how to put together and give a presentation can interfere with the powerful and simple goal of being interesting.
Don’t be constricted by a particular telling of the story on the slides. Be yourself. Interject anecdotes that support your talk. Add context with interesting “did you know” facts.Look your topic up on Wikipedia and you might find out something you never knew before.
For example, if you’re talking about cash vs. accrual accounting, did you know that U.S. tax authorities started accepting accrual methods in 1916? That means 2016 is the 100th anniversary of accrual! Pretty exciting stuff! I am not in accounting, and I find that fascinating as an entrepreneur.
Your topic is not boring, and you are not boring.
Personal Confession:
Somehow, when I was an engineer, I bought into the misleading cultural premise that engineers are not exciting; that they are boring people. Honestly, I bought into it because it allowed me to be lazy and not have to try too hard to make my topic interesting to my audience.
Please don’t make the same mistake. Whatever you do for a living can be fascinating. You just have to put some effort into it.
Nowadays, I work with so many professionals, directors, and C-level executives from many industries, and when I see them put just a little bit of effort, they turn into superstar presenters and the go to people in their organization to represent the whole company.
When you talk to reporters, they always use the word “angle.” The angle is how you approach and present about a subject. Reporters know the power of the angle, and that’s how they get you interested in reading their stories.
So instead of complaining about your boring topic, think, what angle should I use to get people interested in this topic.
A computer science client of mine was presenting in front of neuroscientists. Instead of jumping into his algorithms right away, he started talking about some problems neuroscientists are facing and then presented his work as a possible interesting solution to those problems. The audience was riveted instead of bored to death with algorithms. That’s an example of a good angle.
Let’s say for example your topic is doodling. Or what happens when you encounter a broken web page and get a “404” error message. Hard to imagine less interesting subjects isn’t it? Somehow “Doodlers Unite” and “404, The Story of a Page Not Found” are among a list of the 22 best TED Talks ever!
That’s an example of how Renny Gleeson found a great angle to present on the topic of 404 error messages.
TED Talks can be great examples of making any subject interesting.
Sure, many TED speakers speak on what we might think of as interesting topics like business, information technology, and public policy.
But there are hundreds and hundreds of speakers who give interesting talks on how to be a better grocery shopper, how painting a house led to a better community, and the physics of pizza.
Notice that all good Ted talks have good angles.
Maybe your presentation topic requires information dense, flat and “uninteresting” (or difficult to absorb) slides. One way to make this type of presentation more interesting is to break up the flow.
At appropriate points in the story, you could stop, insert an audience poll, a video, a graphic of a recent news item, or a quote relevant to the topic.
Some free or inexpensive audience polling tools work well with PowerPoint, such as Poll Everywhere, and ParticiPoll. The Tech Republic has some suggestions on others.
If a poll is not appropriate, you can utilize a variety of interactive games to make your presentation more interesting. Use interactive techniques that work with your personality.
Can you guess what the image above means?
It means nothing 
Just wanted to add a break to demonstrate the point below:
If your audience has a sense of humor and the occasion is appropriate, some speakers like to break up a presentation by inserting something entirely irrelevant to re-engage the audience.
For example, if the time of year/timing is right you could pick one of your favorite holiday photos and put it on the slide and speak to it. Some people add a photo of their family or a picture of their car. You could even acknowledge, “Hey I know this material is a little demanding so I thought we’d take a break and talk about Thanksgiving dinner. This will be a quick break to help you digest the material better”
In the Science of Influence, this is called, “breaking state.” If people get in a bored state, the best way to get them out of it is to break that state. One of the best ways to do so is to do something completely off topic.
While this does briefly interrupt your story, it can be an effective way to rekindle the participation of audience members who may have started checking email or are otherwise losing their focus on your presentation.
It’s a great technique especially late in the afternoon when people are sleepy from lunch.
Always give a reason for the break, or when you talk about irrelevant things, otherwise, some of your audience will think you are wasting their time.
Here are some examples of reasons you can use for introducing something irrelevant to the topic:
1- “Just to give you a little break from the material, I wanted to ….”
2- “To help you compartmentalize the previous information and separate it from the rest of the talk, I would like to introduce a quick visual break….”
3- “Just to break this dense material up a little bit, I wanted to give a quick break…”
4- etc.
You can make a “seemingly” flat topic more lively by taking an innovative approach to slide design.
Who doesn’t have a hard time looking at spreadsheets and bullet points for 45 minutes or an hour? What if instead you use a historical theme for your presentation, supporting it with memorable images from the past that help support your speaking point?
If you want to consider using images from the past, the National History Education Clearinghouse offers some great resources for finding historic images online. And of course, there’s ever faithful Google Image Search. But with all of these, you’ll want to consider copyright implications if you give your presentation publicly or publish it.
You can even change up the color palette of your theme. The popularity of various colors has changed over the years. Here’s a blog post on historical color themes you can use to give your presentation a retro look that might fit the story you’re trying to tell. Don’t settle for the generic templates all the people in your department use. Think outside the box and use more interesting templates.
It’s a general rule of presentation design that form follows function. In other words, the data you are presenting and the concepts that you’re trying to get across are more important than the graphics. But you can use an unusual graphical concept if it does not interfere with getting your message across, and it can help give your presentation some variety and make it more interesting to your audience.
Easter eggs are something children hunt for on Easter. But it’s also a term from the world of movies. An Easter egg is a little something the director or producer has hidden in the scene with perhaps secret or additional meaning. You could put one or more Easter eggs in your presentation.
Let me explain how you would do that. Let’s continue with the accounting example. You could start your presentation by telling people that there are three references to famous economists hidden throughout your presentation, and at the end of your talk you’ll ask your audience if anyone found all three.
If you’re an author, you can even offer a free copy of your book to the first person to correctly identify all three references. You’d be surprised at how closely people pay attention when they are challenged to be competitive.
Your audience doesn’t want you to “speak at” them. They want you to engage them in a conversation. Since the presentation format is restrictive, you sometimes have to create the illusion of a conversation.
The best way to do that is to use rhetorical questions. These are questions that you ask and then answer on stage. Rhetorical questions create the illusion of dialog when presenting and instinctively interest your audience.
Here is a formula to use when applying rhetorical questions:
1- Make a point
2- Ask a question about the point
3 – Answer
Here is an example that I use:
1- Make a point: Public Speaking is hard.
2- Ask a question about the point: So why is public speaking hard?
3 – Answer: The answer is not because we are stupid. It’s because we are conditioned all our lives to think that it’s hard. Since childhood, we have been conditioned not to speak up in class, not to challenge authority and not to make eye contact with strangers.
And after all, that, as adults we are expected to drop years of conditioning, stand up, make eye contact, and speak up to give presentations in front of groups of strangers.
Using rhetorical questions along with open ended and closed ended questions will turn your topic into an engaging presentation. When your audience feels that they are active participants in your presentation they will get a sense of ownership in the topic and that alone will keep them interested.
How to Make a “Boring Topic” Interesting? Leverage available tools and practices to interest people in your topic. After all, there are no boring subjects only disinterested minds. Figure out how to re-interest those minds and you can become a fascinating person in your peer group at work.
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Hey! Wake up!
Is your presentation topic that boring?
Let’s do something about that!
The first thing you need to know is that your topic is fine!
Initially, almost all my client’s say that their subjects are boring, and other people have more interesting topics. Whether they are presenting about Marketing, Economics, Biotechnology, Big Data, Quality Assurance, Deep Learning Algorithms, or Sales, they always point outside to other fields and departments and say that others have a more interesting topics than them.
If I buy into their premises, then there will be no interesting topics on this whole earth.
That’s why I share the belief of the English philosopher, G.K. Chesterton, that there are any boring topics out there; there are only disinterested audiences.
That’s more like the truth. So, instead blaming the topic, you can start to look for ways to interest your audience in it (seduce their minds).
If you topic is not hot or sexy enough, then you need to sell it more and soon people will accept it as sexy. Just think about this: if even the Tobacco Companies sold smoking a cigarette as sexy, I am sure you can sell your topic too.
Here are some ways to help you get your audience interested in your topic:
How you start your presentation will determine if people listen to you or not. Two of the big questions your audience members have when they are in the room with you is “ Why I am I here?” “Why is this is important to me?”
If you don’t quickly tell them why they should care about the topic, then they will focus on other things they deem more important.
Simon Sink started a whole movement based on the idea that companies that explain the why of their product end up on top of the food chain. He stated in his famous Ted talk that the fundamental difference between the “Apples” of the world and everyone else is that Apple always starts with “why.”
Sinek’s based his idea on the fact that people are starving for meaning and relevance. I add that we live in a busy and noisy world, and your audience is careful with their time and attention. If you don’t show them the reason they should listen, then they will tune you out.
Now, starting with why does not mean that you forget about the why throughout the presentation. You have to keep connecting your topic to your audience’s interests throughout the talk.
Remember, your audience is always listing to one radio station: WIFM. What’s In it For Me. And to keep them interested in the topic, you have to keep tying back your topic to their interests.
If you think your topic is boring, then how can you expect somebody else to like it when you present.
It’s impossible.
People will detect your lack of passion, disinterest, and insecurities about the topic. Your disinterest is like a virus that spreads and infects everyone around you.
Besides, even if you hint that your topic is boring, you will be missing out on an enormous influence phenomena: It’s called Social Curiosity Driver.
The Social Curiosity Driver tells us that if other people show interest in something in front of you, then we will get curious too.
Example, you are walking down the street, and you see a group of people looking at something that you can’t see.
Would you get interested to find out what they are looking at?
Of course, it’s human nature.
Now imagine leveraging that same phenomena in your presentations.
Next time you present get interested in your topic and don’t fake it; just tap into real interest, and you will see how this will peak the curiosity of your audience. They will be sitting there, saying to themselves, “I don’t know what she sees in the topic, but there must be something interesting here.”
Social Curiosity Driver is a biologically hardwired phenomena. Don’t miss out on it.
Remember, if you can’t get yourself interested in what you are talking about, there is no way you will get your audience to be interested.
Even, if you topic is boring – which is not.
Don’t be a boring person yourself.
Nearly every day, people ask you what you do for a living, you engage in conversation about your work, and maybe tell a work-related anecdotes.
Sometimes our preconceived notions about how to put together and give a presentation can interfere with the powerful and simple goal of being interesting.
Don’t be constricted by a particular telling of the story on the slides. Be yourself. Interject your anecdotes that support your talk. Add context with interesting “did you know” facts. Look up your topic in Wikipedia and maybe you’ll find out something you never knew before.
For example, if you’re talking about cash vs. accrual accounting, did you know that U.S. tax authorities started accepting accrual methods in 1916? That means 2016 is the 100th anniversary of accrual! Pretty exciting stuff! I am not in accounting, and I find that fascinating as an entrepreneur.
Your topic is not boring, and you are not boring.
Personal Confession:
Somehow, when I was an engineer, I bought into the misleading cultural premise that engineers are not exciting; that they are boring people. Honestly, I bought into it because it helped me be lazy and not try hard to interest other people in my topic.
Please don’t make the same mistake. Whatever you do for a living, It can be fascinating, and you are fascinating, you just have to put some effort to let it shine.
Nowadays, I work with so many professionals, directors, and C-level executives from many industries, and when I see them put just a little bit of effort, they turn into superstar presenters and the go to people in their organization to represent the whole company.
When you talk to reporters, they always use the word “angle.” the angle is how you approach and present about a subject. Reporters know the power of the angle, and that’s how they get you interested in reading their stories.
So instead of saying your topic is boring, think, what angle should I use to get people interested in this topic.
A computer science client of mine was presenting in front of neuroscientists. Instead of jumping into his algorithms right away, he started talking about some problems neuroscientists are facing and then presented his work as a possible interesting solution to those problems. The audience was riveted instead of bored to death with algorithms. That’s an example of a good angle.
Let’s say for example your topic is doodling. Or what happens when you encounter a broken web page and get a “404” error message. Hard to imagine less interesting subjects isn’t it? Somehow “Doodlers Unite” and “404, The Story of a Page Not Found” are among a list of the 22 best TED Talks ever!
That’s an example of how Renny Gleeson found a great angle to present on the topic of 404 error messages.
TED Talks can be great examples of making any subject interesting.
Sure, many TED speakers speak on what we might think of as interesting topics like business, information technology, and public policy.
But there are hundreds and hundreds of speakers who give interesting talks on how to be a better grocery shopper, how painting a house led to a better community, and the physics of pizza.
Notice that all good Ted talks have good angles.
Maybe your presentation topic requires information dense, flat and “uninteresting” (or difficult to absorb) slides. One way to make this type of presentation more interesting is to break up the flow.
At appropriate points in the story, you could stop, insert an audience poll, a video, a graphic of a recent news item, or a quote relevant to the to the topic.
Some free or inexpensive audience polling tools work well with PowerPoint, such as Poll Everywhere, and ParticiPoll. The Tech Republic has some suggestions on others.
If a poll is not appropriate, you can utilize a variety of interactive games to make your presentation more interesting. Use interactivity devices that work with your personality. However, don’t use your personality as an excuse for not trying anything new. Don’t automatically say that a technique is not for you: There are so many things that I do and say now, that I thought would be impossible years ago.
Can you guess what the image above means?
It means nothing – Just wanted to add a break
If your audience has a sense of humor and the occasion is appropriate, some speakers like to break up a presentation by inserting something entirely irrelevant to re-engage the audience.
For example, if the time of year/timing is right you could pick one of your favorite holiday photos and put it on the slide and speak to it. Some people add a photo of their family or a picture of their car. You could even acknowledge, “Hey I know this material is a little demanding so I thought we’d take a break and talk about Thanksgiving dinner.”
In influence science, this is called, “breaking state.” If people get in a bored state, the best way to get them out of it is to break that state. One of the best ways to do so is to do something completely off topic.
While this does briefly interrupt your story, it can be an effective way to rekindle the participation of audience members who may have started checking email or are otherwise losing their focus on your presentation.
It’s a great technique especially late in the afternoon when people are sleepy from lunch.
You can make a “seemingly” flat topic more lively by taking an innovative approach to slide design.
Who hasn’t had a hard time looking at spreadsheets and bullet points for 45 minutes or an hour? What if instead you use an historical theme for your presentation, supporting it with memorable images from the past that help support your speaking point?
If you want to consider using images from the past, the National History Education Clearinghouse offers some great resources for finding historic images online. And of course, there’s ever faithful Google Image Search. But with all of these, you’ll want to consider copyright implications if you give your presentation publicly or publish it.
You can even change up the color palette of your theme. The popularity of various colors has changed over the years. Here’s a blog post on historical color themes you can use to give your presentation a retro look that might fit the story you’re trying to tell. Don’t settle for the generic templates all the people in your department use. Think outside the box and use more interesting templates.
It’s a general rule of presentation design that form follows function. In other words, the data you are presenting and the concepts that you’re trying to get across are more important than the graphics. But you can use an unusual graphical concept if it does not interfere with getting your message across, and it can help give your presentation some variety and make it more interesting to your audience.
Easter eggs are something children hunt for on Easter. But it’s also a term from the world of movies. An Easter egg is a little something the director or producer has hidden in the scene with perhaps secret or additional meaning. You could put one or more Easter eggs in your presentation.
Let me explain how you would do that. Let’s continue with the accounting example. You could start your presentation by telling people that there are three references to famous economists hidden throughout your presentation, and at the end of your talk you’ll ask your audience if anyone found all three.
If you’re an author, you can even offer a free copy of your book to the first person to correctly identify all three references. You’d be surprised at how closely people pay attention when they are challenged to be competitive.
How to Make a “Boring” Presentation Topic Interesting? Leverage available tools and practices to interest people in your topic. After all, there are no boring subjects only disinterested minds. Figure out how to re-interest those minds and you can become a fascinating person in your peer group at work.
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You have to get better at Extemporaneous Speaking.
Here is why:
Imagine you’re working hard on a project plan or product, and a co-worker interrupts to let you know that a C-level executive is in the conference room down the hall and wants you to give a quick update on that initiative. Right Now!
Or maybe you’re in a job interview and a question from left field catches you unprepared:
Can you think on your feet quickly and deliver a concise and compelling message? Or will you stammer your way through as you struggle to find the right words?
If you answered “stammer.” you’re not alone. A study found that even CEO’s of organizations struggle with impromptu communication. The same study found that most CEO’s lack awareness around this weakness.
If you think this is a weakness of yours, don’t freak out: Extemporaneous speaking and thinking off the cuff are skills that can be acquired and even mastered.
Most of my suggestions here on the Magnetic Speaking site are about presentations and public speaking, and specifically, how to prepare and give a talk.
Many of the techniques we learn to use in preparation for formal presentations would seem not to apply to extemporaneous speaking. But perhaps they do. So let’s talk about ways to prepare for when you’re unprepared.
Extemporaneous speaking is sometimes called impromptu (from improvisation) speaking, off-the-cuff (a reference to the days when a speaker might write a few notes on the starched cuff of their shirt) speaking, and thinking on your feet.
I have some ideas to share with you on how to make the most of it when you are called to make impromptu remarks, and we’ll try to keep your shirt clean!
Extemporaneous speaking can be one of the most difficult types of speaking, but can also be the most fun and rewarding to your career and confidence.
As I hinted before, the key to extemporaneous speaking is to prepare for such an opportunity without making it appear you’ve done so. You can apply many of the techniques you use to create more formal presentations as you prepare to make more off-the-cuff remarks.
However, since you won’t be at your desk with your laptop in front of you with easy access to your existing presentations and tools like Google, you’ll have to be a little more resourceful.
When I was a kid, I used to watch a TV show called MacGyver: It was about a clever secret agent who could get out of any situation using only what he could see in front of him. The best extemporaneous speaker is like MacGyver, resourcefully coming up with eloquent remarks in the right tone in the spur of the moment.
When you are asked to speak off the cuff, your brain power will be divided in half by two activities. One part will focus on determining the right message, and one part will focus on the structure of the talk.
Since both tasks require a lot of mental power, you’ll only be able to use half of your total brain power on each task, and your message ends up sucking.
That’s why you have to have a reliable structure for talks that you can automatically follow without too much thought. Once you have a structure that works stored in your brain, all you have to do is focus on fitting the right content into it. And voila! You will be articulate, concise and eloquent.
In this blog, you’ll find many tried-and-true structures that you can learn and use. And of course, we hold a weekly public speaking class (first time it’s free) where we teach and practice a structure you can use for your daily communications.
Here is my favorite structure. I use it on a daily basis. It’s not only great for extemporaneous speaking; If you want to use this beyond thinking on your feet check out the Blueprint Boot Camp where you will learn how to structure presentations of all kinds.
The SEE structure:
S = Statement
E = Evidence
E = Emotion
The SEE Structure is a powerful tool for you to use when speaking extemporaneously. The name itself is designed to be memorable, so once you understand the SEE Structure, a short, simple word will help you recall it and put it to use.
Anytime somebody asks you a question or prompts you to present something, think of this structure and answer:
First, make a statement about the subject they’ve enquired about. Second, provide evidence to support your statement. And finally, back it up with emotion, telling a story or citing an example.
Let’s try it with the previous example: You get pulled into the board room and asked about Project X.
Your answer (which is your “talk”):
S (statement) = We are making progress on Project X
E (evidence) = Yesterday we reached the second milestone and we are on the budget and on time.
E (emotion) = Michael, our head of operations tells me that he is happy with the progress, and he believes that if we stay at this pace we will be ready to launch the product by next quarter.
The executives in the board room will be blown away by your command of the material and your poise in delivery!
This is a simple but powerful formula. Just memorize it and practice it until it becomes second nature to you.
Then the next time you are asked a question you are not prepared for, you will not waste brainpower on the structure, you will focus all of your energy on the content.
Here is a list of some structures you can learn from our blog:
1- How to do an elevator pitch
2- How to tell your company story
3- Customer success story template
The structure above is great, given you have good content to fill it. If you don’t know the topic you’ve been asked to speak about, then the structure alone will not save you.
As a professional, you have to be aware of your projects, your deadlines, and your milestones. When I was an engineer, I hated when people came unprepared to a meeting. They showed up to a meeting to give an update on their work, and they were clueless about what they were working on and how well it was going.
Some people are great at remembering the content.
I am not.
So, I used to create a Gantt chart and have notes on it for all of my projects. (See sample Gantt chart before.) So even when I get called to give an update on the spot, I can always pull the chart off my phone and glance at it if I need to, before I answer the questions.
These days, you don’t need to carry a notebook with you all of the time. You can always have your phone handy and type your notes into a memo or Evernote the progress of your projects. This will keep you aware of your projects and any updates, and you will look sharp and professional when you are asked to speak on the spot.
A client of mine told me that when he gets pulled into a meeting with one of the partners at his firm, he’ll take a quick picture of the latest data on his smartphone and walk in the meeting. He rarely needs it, but it helps to have it.
In addition to content available to you because of your awareness in your job, there are many other building blocks you can use to craft quickly an impromptu speech, including anecdotes, sound bites and building blocks.
A well-rounded speaker always has a library of anecdotes and sound bites (previously constructed messages, brief quotes, and data points, from others at the company, industry leaders, etc.) at his or her disposal.
If you speak often, you may have a few favorite anecdotes. I suggest these in your phone in Evernote, too. When the time comes, you will probably be able to relate one of your favorite anecdotes to the impromptu presentation you are asked to give.
Anecdotes can be a very effective way to anchor your spontaneous remarks. They probably won’t help you if you’re asked to give a progress report on an initiative or project.
But let’s say you’ve been asked to compare your organization’s strategy to that of a competitor, or to give your thoughts on a new technology. In these situations, anecdotes and sound bites can round out your remarks and add the evidence and the emotion you need.
Just as it’s important to be aware of your work environment, your current projects, and so on, a good speaker is also keenly aware of the world around him or her.
Keep up on industry news through social media or a news app on your phone. You can customize the news delivery to serve up only your key topics. Just think how impressed your audience will be when you walk into the conference room for an extemporaneous talk, and you’re the first one to know about a major acquisition in the field!
With such a story at your disposal, depending upon the length of your talk, you could be halfway to preparing your remarks.
Extemporaneous speaking situations may seem less formal than the typical presentation you’re accustomed to, but remember you’re still being judged and evaluated, and you still have a communications goal to achieve.
Off the cuff speaking calls for adjustments in presentation style. For example, you will not be on an elevated stage, but at the same level with your audience. The best tone for most of these situations is to be conversational. Speak directly with your audience, not at them, frequently scanning, making eye contact and smiling if appropriate.(link to be likable article)
Even if you’re fluent with the SEE Structure, you may still find yourself briefly struggling with finding the next thing to say. Many speaking clients I work with are concerned about lengthy pauses and losing their audience. But the extemporaneous talk may be just the opportunity to use an intentional strategic pause.
There’s an interesting effect that happens when a speaker pauses. To the speaker, the pause may seem like an eternity. But in reality it is usually less than a second. And as long as you keep it short, a well-placed pause will give you an opportunity to stop speaking long enough to think about your next thought.
Most speakers don’t pause often enough anyway, and the pause gives your audience a chance to digest the last thing you said. Some of the best standup comedians rely on the pause. This makes the joke much funnier by giving the audience a chance to take it in and react to the concept of the joke. As a speaker, you need to give your audience a chance to digest the information.
In our weekly workshops, sometimes I let the participants stand up in front of the group and not say anything for 2 to 3 minutes. This helps them get comfortable with the silence.
One of the most difficult challenges, when it comes to extemporaneous speaking, is that you rarely get the chance to practice.
An excellent resource for speakers who wish to improve their skills in this kind of speaking is Toastmasters.
Toastmasters is an organization that meets weekly for the purpose of allowing its members to practice and improve their public speaking abilities in all situations.
Toastmasters often meets on-site at company facilities or nearby coffee shops at breakfast or lunch time so people who work full-time can still participate. Toastmasters is a very collegial organization and is a nurturing place for even the most junior and timid speaker.
You can also practice with a colleague or friend using your handy smartphone and a tripod and challenging each other to speak on random topics.
Extemporaneous speaking is a great skill to cultivate.
Top managers and executives understand the importance of formal public speaking, as the presentations you might give at a conference or company-wide meeting.
These skills are considered indispensable for career growth. But the ability to speak effectively in extemporaneous situations will make you a Navy Seal among speakers.
Politicians, celebrities, diplomats, and leaders are the kinds of people we picture as the best extemporaneous speakers, stepping to the microphone and wowing the audience with seemingly little effort. There’s no reason you can’t aspire to do the same.
Especially if you use some of the tools we’ve discussed here. With the right mindset, a set of proven tools, and the right preparation, you can refine your extemporaneous speaking skills, speak with confidence and be influential in any situation.
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I’m always looking for more effective ways to visually communicate in my Powerpoint presentations so that I can share the findings with you!
I always seek to learn from the best – In this case it’s Edward Tufte:
You will learn a lot from him.
Edward Tufte is a distinguished Yale University professor emeritus who has made a lifetime of studying, writing and teaching about the visual display of information.
With the Edward Tufte Course coming to the Bay Area, I thought this would be a good opportunity to talk a little about his influence in the field of visual information.
Tufte has written some excellent books on this topic such as the Visual Display of Quantitative Information, which sounds like a lofty academic book but is actually a useful and very engaging read that I highly recommend.
Tufte writes, “Graphical excellence is that which gives to the viewer the greatest number of ideas in the shortest amount of time with the least ink in the smallest space.” These are words to live by for the slide designer.
I thought I would share five lessons I’ve learned from Tufte over the years that could easily contribute to more effective presentations.
While he emphasizes simplicity and clarity in his graphics, he focuses on the importance of balance and complete, accurate presentation of information. This allows the audience to form opinions and make informed decisions about what they see.
Microsoft built PowerPoint around the idea of bullet points, short truncated phrases on the slide designed to remind the speaker and the audience of more complex points.
Bullet points are useful when used the right way, yet, very dangerous when not.
The danger is to you and your argument:
If you create your presentation narrative first and slides next; then you should be in good shape. However…. Most people don’t!
Instead, they create slides and add bullet points to them. Then try to come up with a fitting narrative to match the slides.
If that’s you, then will receive NO judgment from me because I used to go through the same process when it came to giving presentations in my corporate life.
The purpose of your presentation is to convey an idea, a logical argument, and a direction. That should be your primary focus. However, the moment you throw the bullet points on the slides your purpose changes.
Your new purpose becomes to make the bullet points sound good together. So you shape your story and narrative to fit the bullet points, forgetting about your original purpose.
That’s how you kill your presentation with bullets.
Now you know better.
So I challenge you to create your narrative and arguments, build your case without the slides, and then when ready create the slides and the bullet points that support your original goal.
The danger of bullet points to your audience:
In corporations, a lot of your presentations end up in a shared drive. These presentations often end up being used as a report by others in your organization as a foundation for their decisions. If the bullet points don’t follow a cohesive narrative, they can lead to inefficiency, mistakes, and sometimes disasters.
Tufte argues that this truncation of information was a major contributor to the Columbia shuttle disaster of 2003. He writes that engineers were compelled to shorten information to fit the bullet point format and by doing so their slides failed to disclose the risks of the shuttle launch.
“There are many true statements about complex topics that are too long to fit on a PowerPoint slide.” Edward Tufte
The lesson here is that it’s good to get away from the habit of trying to reduce everything to bullet points and to explore other ways to display information. In some cases, this will mean slides with a higher density of information if message comprehension requires it.
Simplicity is one of Tufte’s key messages, but he always emphasizes that the best way to show information is in a way that communicates clearly and completely in the least amount of space.
Sometimes, detail is required, and we shouldn’t oversimplify a slide just to make it look better. That’s why I am not always against dense slides like most presentations experts are. I come from a technical background, and I know that sometimes you have to put a lot of information on a slide. This, however, does not give you permission to be lazy and just create a “data dump” slide.
You have to think about your audience while they are listening to you and your audience using your presentation later as a reference and optimize the information on the slides based on those two things.
There are many familiar formats for displaying information on slides. For example, we often use a list of bullet points, as mentioned above, or a bar or pie chart, diagram or photographic image.
That is very limiting. You are smart, you are creative, and you care about communicating effectively. So think outside the box to communicate your ideas and data better. Don’t just take what Excel gives you because sometimes that’s not the best way to display your thoughts.
There are many alternatives available to you. A complex Excel 3D bar chart, for example, might not be the best way to display data. You can use concentric circles with size proportional to the magnitude of the data points to better make your point.
For example, see the chart below produced by NPR to convey Military Casualties and Deaths by conflict: notice the difference between the Persian Gulf War and World War II.
Sure, they could have used an Excel bar chart for this. But it would not have been as elegant or as memorable. This chart has received recognition from MSNBC, Huffington Post, Business Insider and at least 56 other reputable blogs. Because it is insightful and different.
So, how can you build better graphics? In addition to PowerPoint and Keynote for the Macintosh, there are many alternative presentation technologies available, such as crazy Prezi, which takes a unique multidimensional approach to data display.
Also, check out these 10 Tools for Creating Infographics and Visualization
Tufte points out that the compelling display of visual information is nothing new. Throughout history we can see examples of alternatives to traditional communications techniques, and we can learn from them and apply them.
Long before we had slides in PowerPoint presentations, professionals in various trades have been challenged to create effective displays of information.
In his talk, Tufte often shows a 16th Century copy of Euclid’s Geometry which features a pop-up diagram of a pyramid (yes a pop up in an ancient book). Though published nearly 500 years ago, the publishers felt that the concept of the pyramid required more than a flat page to describe it.
Tufte also uses an amazing example of an 1869 map drawn by a cartographer in Napoleon’s army portraying the losses suffered in the Russian campaign of 1812.
This deceivingly simple map illustrates a complex campaign over many months and shows six variables on a two-dimensional surface yet does so without clutter and extraneous information.
At a single glance, you can see the entire, heartbreaking story.
It’s unlikely that you’ll be required to document a military campaign, but a similar approach could be used to create a timeline for a marketing campaign or progress on a project.
For some practical PPT examples, I recommend spending time on SlideShare and looking through some of the presentations highlighted there.
If you want to learn to build better slides, then you need to look and learn from others. Learn from others in different fields, from different times, and from different viewpoints than you. Nothing is ever created in a vacuum.
Another point Tufte is clear on is the difference between compelling information display and over designed graphical information. No amount of eye-catching graphics, images, animation and bold typography will make up for a lack of information or focus.
Audiences are informed consumers of information and will not be fooled by slides that do not clearly make their point.
As always, I recommend stepping back from your slide, viewing it in its entirety, and asking yourself the questions:
The most powerful slides are those that are reduced to exactly the right amount of information, clearly displayed.
A mentor of mine told me to never show information in order to impress, but to show information in order to influence.
A lot of presenters like to display all the information they have because they want to show the audience how much they worked, but that could get in the way of being influential. Please don’t fall in this trap, there is always an appropriate time and place for every number you got, but not all at the same time.
Making decisions based on evidence requires the appropriate display of that evidence.
“Good displays of data help to reveal knowledge relevant to understanding mechanism, process and dynamics, cause and effect.” – Edward Tufte
In his book and lectures, Tufte offers a number of principles for the ideal representation of visual information. Here are a few of them, paraphrased:
These are just a few of the great insights Edward Tufte has to offer that can help us all produce more effective, and more innovative slides for our presentations.
If you’re not familiar with Tufte, I hope you will check out his website, look into his books, and possibly attend one of his talks in San Francisco. Audiences are becoming increasingly sophisticated and demanding in their consumption of visual media, and as presentation designers we must take the lead in new, innovative techniques for engaging and keeping their attention.
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