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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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So you muster every ounce of courage you have, and you ask your audience a question.
And no one answers.
What do you do? Do you give up and go back to giving a boring presentation? Or do you try again in a smarter way?
Today’s Tip-Tuesday will give you professional comebacks to use to bounce back from an anxiety-inducing audience response. This will help you motivate people to engage with your question, even if they are not typically responsive.
Let’s say you have one of these questions as part of your presentation:
If you know that the audience is open and receptive then just ask them.
If you sense that your audience is hesitant or apprehensive, use the following strategy before asking a question:
1- Prime their mind: say something like “I have a question for you,” “I would like to ask you a question here,” or “I would like to do a little survey.”
This usually primes your audience’s minds for participation and foreshadows the way you expect them to respond throughout the presentation. As a result, they will be more prepared to participate.
2- Lower the risk
Reducing the risk means that you put your audience at ease by framing the act of answering a question in a positive and non-defensive light. People, usually don’t want to be embarrassed or be viewed as weird. Your job is to make them look good and remove the risk for them.
1. No mistake frame: People usually don’t want to make mistakes, and that’s why they don’t answer. Say something like: “there are no mistakes here,” “There is no right or wrong answer here,” or “there is no judgment here, feel free to share what comes to your mind.”
2. Humor frame: Humor disarms people. If you want to lower the risk of the answer, make a joke about it: Say something like “I promise I will not share the results with management.”
3. Benefits frame: people are more likely to do something if they can see an advantage. Say something like this: “ Your answer will help me customize the presentation for you.
4. Cost of the alternative frame: You can make the risk of not answering bigger than the risk of answering. You can do this by saying “I know you are smart people and not lazy, so please don’t be lazy.” this frame is the frame I never used and probably will never use. But I thought I would share it with you.
Here is an example of this used by Gary Vaynerchuk: go to 8:30 in the timeframe.
As you can see, there are many ways to ensure your audience replies to your questions with positive engagement. The best way to become more comfortable in doing this is to continually practice asking questions and setting the frame.
I encourage you to try this at your next company meeting, presentation, or your next Toastmasters speech. Would love to hear your thoughts, please let me know what you think in the comments below.
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There are all kinds of techniques for creating a great presentation and just as many ways to ruin one.
Here are 9 common slide habits that may lead to presentations that fall short of the mark.
Taken individually none of these are fatal, but each takes away from the effectiveness of your presentation and the impression you make on your audience.
You won’t always be able to eliminate all of these from your presentation decks. There may be constraints placed on you by event organizers, company culture, personal preference, and by time and budget.
But in general, each of these is a speed bump on the road to a smooth, persuasive presentation.
Audiences have had enough of cliché stock photos. They are bombarded with these in advertising and marketing every day.
In the business world, some of the most common of these include the handshake to indicate a partnership or a mutually beneficial deal, a group of hard-working smiling people around a conference table to demonstrate collaboration and teamwork, and people huddled together looking at the screen of a laptop to indicate sharing of information.
There are literally hundreds of millions of photographic images available online that would better serve your presentation than a cliché stock photo. You can use scenic images, historical images, images from sports, theater and the arts. There are many inexpensive stock photo sites offering images that can help you go beyond these clichés.
When you sit down to craft your presentation it’s only natural to think about your agenda, what you intend to pass on to your audience, what subjects you intend to cover and so on. But the “traditional” agenda slide can be unnecessary administrative clutter in your presentation.
Instead of showing the agenda, you can say a few words about what the audience should expect from your presentation. But as a slide, the agenda is a dull beginning that will lose people from the start.
Sometimes, having an agenda slide is part of your organization’s culture and it’s unavoidable. If you need to use one, keep it simple with minimal text, and fill in the details verbally.
Here is an example of an agenda slide from Garr Reynolds (Presentation Zen) that I like:
Another showstopper is the housekeeping slide. Housekeeping is content generally unrelated to your topic that you or someone else feels the audience should be aware of.
Housekeeping items include the conference or event schedule, announcements of prize giveaways, and encouragement to fill out an event survey.
You were no doubt invited to speak before your audience because of your expertise on a particular topic. You are there to inform and inspire. Churchill never started a speech by telling people to enjoy the buffet afterward.
In a conference, leave the announcements to the MC or to the host (unless you are the MC). That’s not your job. It distracts people from your key message and diminishes your stature as a respected leader and authority.
We’ve all seen slides with too much information on them. To mitigate this, some presentation experts offer guidelines about the number of words or number of bullet points, or length of sentences on a slide.
An overly dense slide will overwhelm your audience and be difficult to present. The key is not to use arbitrary rules but to keep your slides clean, simple, and uncluttered. Step back and look at your slide from the audience’s perspective. If it looks to you like there’s too much on it, fix it.
Slides should serve as backdrops for your presentation, providing visual support. No one expects the entire presentation to be printed on the slides. If that were the case you would not need to show up.
I have even heard presenters introduce a slide by saying, “I apologize, this one’s a bit of an eye chart.” If you find yourself saying this or thinking this, it’s time to reduce your slide content to the bare essentials.
Exception below:
In some technical presentations, the slides are used as a report afterward. In those cases, you get some leeway on the amount of information on the slides. Don’t apologize for it. Just make sure you guide the audience through the slide content, and make them aware of the key points to pay attention to.
With that said, don’t use the “technical presentation” as an excuse to be lazy. I come from an engineering background, and I know that it only takes a small amount of effort to streamline your data if you choose to.
In most cases, your audience will probably have a good sense of humor. Humor is a great way to connect with an audience and put them at ease. Well-placed humorous remarks can also help relax the audience and the speaker.
There is often the temptation to add a captioned cartoon to a slide to use humor to make a point in the presentation. While there are people who will be amused by the cartoon, it can land with a dull thud for others.
It’s also a little inauthentic. The cartoon doesn’t showcase your sense of humor as much as it does the person who created the cartoon. Think about ways to introduce subtle, appropriate, inoffensive humor in your remarks and anecdotes and you’ll both inform and entertain your audience. (And remember, use of a cartoon without permission could be a copyright violation.)
I’ve seen hundreds of business presentations with what I call the “Bumper Sticker” slide.
This is a slide covered with dozens of logos flashed on screen with no comment or context for the audience.
The logos are intended to represent a company’s customers, clients, partners, etc. The more logos the better, and the better known the logos, the more impressive the slide.
The problem with this kind of slide is it contains nearly no information on its own. The audience doesn’t gain any understanding of why these companies do business with your company, what value they realized from doing so, what problem you solved or what need you filled.
Instead of a wall of logos with no context, it’s better to present a few key customer examples or testimonials with details on why they chose your company that might resonate with your audience who are considering doing the same.
At least do the following:
At a minimum, if you’re going to use a logo slide, give your audience some context verbally, by saying something like, “Here is a small sample of our happy customers. As you can see we’ve worked with Yahoo, Google, Zendesk, Ancestry.com, and many other Bay Area organizations.”
Anyone who has used PowerPoint or who has spent any amount of time on Google Image Search knows about the millions of clipart images available.
The problem is every amateur presentation designer has access to these and uses them liberally. Since they are overused, they can make your presentation look cheap or hastily assembled. If possible, use some other kind of graphical device to make your point, such as a compelling photographic image, a simple eye-catching chart or a few well-chosen words to support your story.
Some of my clients use modern icons instead of clip art and properly used they look great. However, in a few years, these will likely go out of style as well. If you use clip arts it’s time to upgrade and if you are using modern icons be prepared to move on soon.
We live in both the analog and digital worlds. It’s only natural that it in a presentation there might be an opportunity to direct your audience to additional resources online that will help them learn more about your presentation topic, or yourself, or your business.
However, if you’re giving an interesting presentation and you have their attention, it is highly unlikely that they will have the time to write down or memorize a complex web address or social media identity.
If you are going to provide information of this kind in your presentation, keep to a few key resources and make sure they can be accessed simply. One way to do this is to have a simple link from a blog or website home page where you keep all these resources online and direct people to a single URL.
A long list of resources might be impressive and useful in a brochure or on a web page, but is just more distraction and more clutter in a visual presentation.
Often when developing a presentation, we start with an abstract and then move on to an outline. There might be headings such as “Introduction,” “Our Strategy,” and “Product Availability.”
Sometimes as we transition from the outline to a storyboard and finished slides in PowerPoint, these index and descriptive headings and subheadings make their way onto the slides as titles. And they make boring titles that don’t do anything to help you get your message across.
For example, instead of a slide title “Our Strategy,” wouldn’t a title like “A Strategy for Reducing Operating Costs” be more compelling? I call this making your slide titles work for you.
A study published in the Applied Research Journal demonstrated that a full-sentence and a conclusive headline is 17 percent more memorable than a simple non-descriptive headline.
Slide titles should be much more than descriptive index headings. They are on the slide to directly contribute to the job at hand — persuading your audience and making your message memorable.
These are just a few items that can be removed from a presentation to make it more effective.
Sometimes it will make sense to leave some of them in. Generally, when you can eliminate these bad slides as you craft your presentations, you will create more effective content, make your message more powerful and improve your connection with your audience.
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Your goal as a presenter should be to capture the audience’s attention right from the beginning.
I covered a few different ways to open your presentations before: And today I will include three more ways that are fit for any corporate talk.
You want to learn as many ways as possible to capture the attention of your audience because, if you miss your audience from the beginning, then it will be hard to get them back later.
Today’s openers are called the “Drama” openers. Yes, that’s correct. As a presenter, you use these openers to hook your audience, and very few things catch an audience like a good suspenseful drama.
Drama Opening #1
In a moment I will show you a very important slide; A slide that ______describe the time and effort it took to get what is on the slide__________.
Example: A CEO client of mine used this at the 8th anniversary of his company.
In a moment, I will show you a very important slide; A slide that was eight long years in the making … [The slide showed a picture of company building with the sign on it]
Drama Opening #2
______Date_______, was a very _____emotional adjective______ for me, and it was also an _____ emotional adjecative___________ day. ________explanation____.
Examples:
December 13, 2014, was a very exciting day for me, and it was also an excruciating day. It’s the day I left my job and the day I had my first baby.
October 22, 2016, was a very tough day for us as an organization, and it was the most exciting. It’s the day we went IPO.
Drama Opener #3
I wanted ____x______, but ___y____happened.
Examples:
I wanted to be a great artist. But my parents objected.
I wanted to start my business. But I had to get a job.
I wanted the project to succeed. But we had to kill it.
Your job as a presenter is to get your audience’s attention and then keep it. How you open your presentation is your first point of contact with them: If you open well, you will hook their attention – if you don’t open well, it will be hard to recover.
Make sure you learn as many openings as possible so that you always come prepared with a toolbox to hook any audience.
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