PowerSpeak

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PowerSpeak

• How to Design, Develop, and Deliver Persuasive
  Presentations

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The oldest profession is public speakingnot ...
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How We Learn

• From direct immediate experience, not just from
  books and lectures
• Learning involves the whole body - the heart is
  beating as the mind is processing
• Positive emotions enhance learning, threat
  inhibits it
• The brain processes many things simultaneously,
  not one thing at a time
• We learn best by interacting with information in
  a variety of ways
• We learn best what is personally meaningful

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NEVER BE BORING

• If you are boring, you are not communicating !
• Average attention span - 8 Seconds
• Try something different
• Think a little different for your presentation

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NEVER BE BORING

• Contact
• Content
• Connection
• Confidence

• Clarity
• Creativity
• Control
• Credibility

improve with knowledge and experience
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What is a presentation?

• An exchange of information from a speaker to an
  audience
• enlightened
• enlivened
• enlarged conversation (the audience wants to be
  involved)
• speech should be conversational

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• A Presentationis not a series ofSLIDES

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What is a Presentation?

• Body of a presentation
• Purpose
• Message
• Point
• What is the message?
• What is most important to the audience?
• Build your talk around it.

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What is the role of a speaker?

• Not to feed or give information
• Must be dynamic! (PRACTICE)
• Must combine entertainment with education!
  (THINK)
• Make it interesting, meaningful to the audience
• The audience demands it!

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Prepare your Talk

• Dont be predictable
• add something
• take some chances
• make a shift
• Avoid straight presentations
• Keep audience on their toes

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The Trouble Spots

• The Opening
• Greet the audience
• Your attention getter
• Self-introduction
• Your purpose
• Your content
• Give all the necessary instructions
• Transition into the body of the speech

• The Closing
• Signal your conclusion
• Summarize your major ideas
• End memorably (once)
• Thank audience
• Pause
• Lay out ground rules
• Take questions
• Thank audience for questions
• Sum up
• End memorably (2nd time)

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The Opening

• People watch you as you go up
• Make an impression
• Memorize your opening
• Connect with your audience
• Look at your audience and give them hell then
  make love to your audience.

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The Opening

• Jokes
• use humor that ties into your subject
• use yourself as the target without loosing
  credibility
• Questions
• draw the audience in
• Startling statement
• Quote
• unusual and never heard, not too many

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The Closing

• A good presentation is a CIRCLEAudience remember
  the opening and closing
• NEVER say In conclusion ..
• Wake up the audience by saying
• In summary
• The take home message
• The major points

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Questions and Answers

• Thank the audience for the interesting question
• Avoid being confrontational
• Stay in control
• keep the question in mind
• answer the question FULLY
• Dont ask Did I answer your question?
• Break eye contact
• Anyone else have questions?
• Pick the expert for help

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Six Major Speaking Faults

• 1. Lack of Clear Purpose
• subject, title, purpose
• 2. Lack of Organization and Leadership
• 3. Too much information
• 4. Not enough support for the information
• example, explain, enlighten, enlarge
• story, anecdote, jokes to illustrate your point

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Six Major Speaking Faults

• 5. A monotonous voicepitch, attitude, volume,
  pace and rhythm, pause, inflection, emphysis
• 6. Not meeting the needs of the audience
• What will turn this group on?
• What are their major concerns?
• What problems are they facing?
• What would I want to hear if I were in that
  audience?

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The FINALE

• Energy will keep them focused
• Their attention will stay high
• If I stay interested, then they will too
• Be entertaining and engaging
• My speech will be a BIG success

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References

• Successful Communications Effective Speaking.
  Bennett Corrigan. Parker Publishing.
• Presidential Anecdotes. Boller. Penguin Books.
• How to Develop Self-Confidence Influence People
  by Public Speaking. Carnegie. Pocket Books.
• Why Didnt I Say That? Carroll. Franklin Watts.
• How to Communicate Succeed. Culbert Conrad.
  Vantage Press.
• 5,000 One and Two Liners for Any and Every
  Occasion. Fechtner. Parker Publishing.
• The Art of Plain Talk. Flesch. Macmillan.
• The Executive Guide to Successful Speechmaking.
  Green. Pilot Books.
• So To speak. Hesse. J.B. Lippincott.Co.
• Speakers Treasury of Anectotes About the Famous.
  Humes. Amacom.

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References

• Spokesperson. Huskey. K.W.Huskey Assoc.
• Everymans English Pronouncing Dictionary. Jones.
  E.P. Dutton.
• PowerSpeak The Complete Guide to Persuasive
  Public Speaking and Presenting. Leeds. Prentice
  Hall Press.
• Speech Can Change Your Life. Samoff. Dell
  Publishing.
• The Element of Style. Strunk. Macmillan
  Publishing.
• On Writing Well. Zinsser. Harper Row.