Public Speaking: How To Make An Audience Love You In 90 Seconds

I'm Charlie from Charisma on Command and today I'm going to give you some presentation tips and tricks. Now, the guide we're working on today is actually the 2015 Toastmasters World Public Speaking Champion. However, this applies to a presentation that you would give in any setting, whether at work or elsewhere, because when you You stand in front of a group of people, whether you're talking about macroeconomics or projected income, or you're telling a story, like this guy's, you first have to captivate their attention. And that's one of the things we're going to focus on today. Then let's get started.

That? So this is so big. How does this speech begin? Two important things are happening here. First, it starts with a prop and sometimes I feel silly and you're like, "Well, how do I do that in a business environment?" The truth is, anything that's a physical object and people don't understand why you're doing it, whether you're holding some kind of fruit as a metaphor, I've seen people do that, whatever it is, if you have an object physical that helps capture people's attention and you will see that this is the most important thing at the beginning of a speech.

It does this in multiple ways, because when you get up and start talking in front of people, you have about 10

seconds

to grab their attention and captivate them before they completely tune out, so you have to do something interesting. Secondly, impeccable timing. This guy is so deliberate, so slow, that he dominates the stage. That's something to keep in mind for the rest of this video. Do you all believe that smoking kills? So, another quick thing, and I'm going to play this again, so you can see it in its entirety. You need to achieve

audience

interaction absolutely within the first minute.

You see a lot of speakers do this. It may seem trite, but they ask people: "Show a hand, who's seen this before?" "Show a hand, who has heard of something." You must get your

audience

to move, talk, and respond to you if you want them to listen and interact with what you are saying. He does it very cleverly by asking a provocative question. So I'm going to go back and play it again so we can watch it together. That? Do you all believe that smoking kills? So now they're interested and hooked, and he can start his...he can start getting into it.

Let me tell you something. Did you know that there are as many people who die from diabetes as there are three times as many people who die from smoking? However, if I take a Snicker bar, no one will say anything. Again, two more great examples. Basically, you spend the first minute of your speech interacting with the audience, and you do it in several ways that we've covered, but also with humor. He

make

s sure there are jokes in that first minute. Then he has another laugh here, and then, that provocative question he asks you: "Do you think this?

Well, guess what?" And now he's going to reveal something else. Did you know that the main cause of lung cancer is not actually smoking? Prop again, captivates attention. It's your DNA. You could smoke for years and nothing would ever happen to you. This entire war on smoking is aimed at limiting tobacco cultivation. Mr. _, _ and guests, I use these arguments even though I just made them up. So, you see, this is an abbreviated version of this talk. But now let's get to the body of the talk. This is how you should and should do it. The first part of any presentation you give has to grab attention.

You have humor. You have provocative questions. You have accessories; There are many ways to do it, but in the first minute don't go directly to what you are saying. Don't tell them what you're going to talk about. Get their attention. So now we're more into the body of your speech and the body of your presentation, and one thing you'll want to have, no matter how dry the topic you're talking about, is stories, because, people, the human brain didn't evolve. to digest and connect with the statistics, right? You can talk about global warming, or world hunger, and how many millions and billions, and hundreds of thousands, but that does not convince the human brain.

It's the individual anecdotes that are persuasive, and while that's a logical fallacy, if you want to move people emotionally, you need to tell people's stories, and that's what he does here. Your word choice can

make

the difference between someone accepting or rejecting your message. You can have something very beautiful to say, but if you say it with the wrong words, it will disappear. So here you make your point and now you're about to launch into telling a story. That's a great way to go back and forth between a general point proving a story, or even start by proving a story, what's the point?

My friend Nasser

love

d his father, he idealized him. He would do anything to make him happy. But his father was the kind of person who is not easy to impress, and year after year, Nasser tried, and his father said, "Nyah." In his first year in college, Nasser earned straight A's and thought, "This is it. This will finally make my father proud." He picked up the phone. So check this out. This is very critical. When you tell stories, even in dry environments, you have to realize that when you are in front of a group of people, you are acting, so you have to get out from behind the lectern.

You need to move your body, but you also need to embody characters. If you can take people to the present tense of any story, at any moment, that will be much more powerful than summarizing it. And if you can go beyond the present tense and represent it, make it a vivid and real game character, it will be something that people will be able to connect with much more and ultimately feel compelled to act on it, because, in In reality, when you stand in front of people, your goal is not just to say a few words, your goal is for them to leave, having changed something inside, so that they behave differently.

And this is just a great example of how you can do it. So, look what he does here. He called his father, "Dad, I got an A, are you proud? Please tell me you're proud, father. "Yes, listen, son, I have to call you again, I'm busy." So, you see, in the end this is abridged. I highly recommend watching it in its entirety. It's much better in its entirety, but I wanted to pull out some of the more fascinating pieces. Now, toward the end of the speech, it kind of sums up what you want to do when you get to the end of any presentation. middle, you know, you will have told your stories, your anecdotes.

At the beginning, you will have captured the attention. It is at the end, when people are completely exposed to being absorbed by your stories, for you to capture their attention, and you can drop anything. knowledge or nugget that you want them to take away, because. If you captivate people with stories, the truth is that they are very open to you telling them the moral, and that's what he does here Words have power. be your power. You can change a life, inspire a nation and make this world a beautiful place. Isn't that what we all wanted? Isn't that why we are all in this world?

Your mouth can spit poison or it can mend a broken soul. Ladies and gentlemen, let that be our goal. So, as you see, in the end, it comes full circle with the accessory. He takes out the cigarette and crushes it at the end. This is something that is very, very, very popular. Personally, I find it a bit cliché in this case, but what a lot of people like to do is come full circle, or start with a metaphor and then come back to it at the end. Again, something very, very popular. It is not necessary to force it as I felt in this speech, but it is something that can be done.

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