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4 Tips To IMPROVE Your Public Speaking - How to CAPTIVATE an Audience

Jun 08, 2021
So do what you can, where you are with what you have and never settle. Anticipation is the ultimate advantage in business and life. You're not 100% sure what might happen if you continue. You can do it tomorrow, it will be better. What do you tell people when they ask you, you know, how can I introduce myself as you? How can I

improve

? What really helps me is that I have learned about perspective to change my perspective, so for example, I show up to give and I always remind people that the most important thing about being an effective presenter, an effective speaker, is that You have to show up with a generous attitude, you have to show up to give, you know something, you've seen something, you've done something, you've tried something that someone else thinks others need to hear, that's why they invited you to speak.
4 tips to improve your public speaking   how to captivate an audience
The problem is the number of people who show up to take, to get and you can see it, it is very clear to see people ask a question and they tell you: "You will have to buy my book" or you could just tell me. the answer because you know the answer because you wrote the book, right? But they are clearly trying to boost book sales, it's an appropriation mentality. Every slide in

your

PowerPoint has

your

Instagram, your email, your website, your Facebook. Well, clearly they want you to follow them, they want you to communicate with them.
4 tips to improve your public speaking   how to captivate an audience

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The last slide is your website and email. Good? They have a take mentality. They come and the first thing they do is tell you their credentials "Hi, my name is, you know, Dr. Bla-de-bla, I have six PhDs, I've worked for 55 companies, I advise CEOs and CEOs." and let me tell you something about them. It is very easy and very quick to discern who gives and who receives. The best speakers 100% of them, you look at the best TED people you know, Sir Ken Robinson, Amy Cuddy, Brene Brown. Good! Dan Pink, all of them. They are all there to give.
4 tips to improve your public speaking   how to captivate an audience
None of them want anything from anyone, not even your approval. No, no one... I don't know any great speakers who stand backstage and say, "I'm going to get a standing ovation." You can get one if you earn it. If they decide that what you've given them is valuable, that's not why you show up, you show up to give. How many of you experience fear when you speak? How many of you know by a show of hands that

public

speaking

is essential for your industry, your career? By show of hands, how? How many of you, by raising your hand, honestly experience a little bit of fear when we talk about

public

speaking

?
4 tips to improve your public speaking   how to captivate an audience
Raise your hand and over the last three years I have had the opportunity to travel the country and do presentations like this and what I have understood is that there are certain patterns, there are certain patterns and certain sets of skills that if applied can make a speech public is surprising. If you follow these principles that we're going to talk about today, I think I don't care what industry you're a part of, I don't care what job you're in, I don't care what year you're in. I don't care how old you are. I believe that if you apply these principles today, you can literally transform where you are and take the journey to where you want to be.
Simple, I think there are three principles. Three A's of public speaking. Three things I wanted to leave you with today and I think if you take action on it, you'll say, "Oh my gosh, I'm glad I came." So, number 1, authenticity attracts. In November 2017, I had the opportunity to give my first TEDx talk and, man, I can tell you I was excited. You have to imagine, a young professional starting at 26 and I want to make this very clear, so I'm thinking and what I used to do is when I was preparing I would give a talk at least 100 times beforehand. give him.
Write that down. I give it in my head, I give it, I talk to people in conversation, in the shower and I say, "Okay, this is good. I'm going to do this, right?" And I think to myself PowerPoint or no PowerPoint, that's all I'm thinking. I thought, "Okay, if I give this presentation, should I use the PowerPoint behind me or should I just use me instead of using the PowerPoint? So I'm researching and observing." I've seen more TED talks than you can imagine and I'm like, "Okay, they do this, they do that." Okay, I've seen good ones with PowerPoint, I've seen good ones without it, and what I noticed was I was like, "You know what?
I'm going to ask my closest friends and family and I'm going to take a survey." 12 people I love, who know me well. I said, "Sis, should I use a PowerPoint?" she says, “Yeah, something to back you up, use a PowerPoint.” I said, "Mom, should I use PowerPoint?" She says, "There's no PowerPoint, use yourself." I say "Bro, should I use PowerPoint?" He says, "Yes, you need the statistics to back up what you've done." I said great. I go through the whole list six - six, put the list down and say, what was I thinking with an even number?
I am preparing for the most important speech of my professional life. Good? And the professionals, the people I love tell me that there is no PowerPoint - PowerPoint and it's six - six and I say, how am I going to break this tie? And I say, wait. I didn't ask a person. I didn't ask myself. I didn't ask myself what I would feel most comfortable presenting. When we talk about public speaking and why I say authenticity involves, hear me out here, you need to know yourself before you go looking for advice. You have to speak from the inside before you go and ask because when you talk to an

audience

, the

audience

can feel the reality and you have to be yourself.
If you can't be yourself, you will never be able to participate in the way you want to. I first have to listen to myself to truly convey a message that informs and inspires. Number 2, awareness Awareness connects the speaker with the audience and this is what I mean. And then one of the speaking events comes up and... I get the opportunity to speak in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. And before the event, you know, you want to get there early, you want to be ready, know your audience, know your audience. I hear all this kind of partying and I wonder, what's going on?
And I came down and they had... they had an open bar and they had an open bar for hours, they were on, guys, they were on. Good? And then listen, I go to the event, I'm in my mind, I'm thinking this is going to be career motivation, this is what you need to do and I walk into a party and as a speaker I'm thinking, "Oh my God," like I'm prepared to do one thing, I flew over here and there's literally a party in the audience like... the wave, the energy is like, Hey, I hope this guy is cool, I hope he is.
I'm going to, you know, make a joke and I'm like... that's not the content I deliver, so I get up and they call me and I come over like this and they're as quiet as you guys. They literally look at me like, what is this guy doing? Good? And at that moment, I decided, right before I got up, I said, you know what? I'm going to tell a story and I said, before we start, I just want you to know that I'm... I come from Sacramento and I got on the plane and I met this person and we were chatting and he thought I was going to do a presentation in Colorado and I said, "No, I'm actually giving a presentation in Sioux Falls" and the look on his face was blank and he said, "Excuse me, where?" and I said, "Sioux Falls," then he said these three words and I'll never forget them.
He said, "Are you sure?" and I said that and there was a man sitting right where you're sitting. And he literally laughed like he was on a Kevin Hart special. He lost it. I'm talking about the chair going back. He laughs so hard, this is a crowd of 200 people that everyone... have you ever caught this, when someone laughs so hard you have to laugh, the whole crowd literally starts laughing. And I start laughing from the stage and say, man, if this is how it's going to be, let's have a good time. And at that moment I realized something because the old me would have been so stuck in the preparation part that I would never have had the audacity, I would never have had the situational awareness, is what I mean.
When you speak or present, sometimes things don't go as planned and there is no way to plan for it. And what you have to do is be fluid, malleable and prepared to face the situation. And if you have situational awareness, what can often happen is you can play with what's happening. I said, uh, open bar, alcohol, social event. I'll be motivated if I change it like this and tell a joke and leave them. I know I'm not serious here, the public will be on my side. Number 3, audacity Audacity informs and inspires. You have to be bold to be able to give a speech that lasts.
How many of you experience fear when you speak? Fear of other people's opinions, fear of being criticized, fear of not being good enough, fear of getting a word wrong, fear of how you look. We know that fear drives most of us and I am here to tell you that boldness is what you need, boldness is what you need. If you want to deliver something and be absolutely transformative, I am passionate about this, I believe this because I live this. I'm telling you, you have to be bold. You can't half-step your presentation, you have to be bold, you can't half-step your presentation and one of the ways we do that is by delivering a story.
History includes power. Stories are powerful, they are the most powerful thing you can do when you open your mouth because the brain operates in images and a story has the ability to paint the picture in the mind of another individual. They did a study on TED Talks, in the main TED Talks I'm talking about the million, the million views. Of the top TED talks, 85% of them focused on stories. Stories can be translated into any industry at any time, whether you are telling your personal story, whether it is Martin Luther King giving a speech or the president of a country.
A story is what allows... you have time, sit back and let yourself go like that, huh. A story is powerful, right? Never tell a story without making a point, but never make a point without telling a story. For example, use the story to remember what you are trying to do. Across every industry, every... whatever you want to do, a story will get you there.

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