While working with some very talented people yesterday - all seeking to expand their coaching businesses into the world of professional speaking - there was a fairly heated debate about motivation within a speech or presentation: Are we seeking to motivate ourselves as speakers; our audience as a group; the audience as individuals?
My advice is that we should seek to motivate the audience to help us move towards our defined goals for the presentation.
In other words, we need to have a clear idea of WHY we are making the presentation in the first place, and only then can we find a means by which we can have the audience help us towards that goal.
While this might, at first glance, make the presentation a little self-serving, in fact as long as we are looking for the speech to take the audience towards a beneficial or benign goal, then, since that is our stated aim, there is nothing self-seeking or selfish about having the audience help us - and therefore themselves - towards that goal.
And of course we do this by finding a means of motivating them in that direction.
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Thursday, 24 November 2011
Monday, 7 November 2011
Robbing a Bank
Today's tip: When you're planning and preparing your next presentation, think of it like a daring bank heist! I don't mean go in waving a gun and wearing a mask - though at least you would get everyone's attention, so maybe...
No - what I mean is that you need to have your exit planned before you think about any other aspect of the 'job'. How are you going to get out?
Think about it, and let me know your thoughts by posting a comment.
No - what I mean is that you need to have your exit planned before you think about any other aspect of the 'job'. How are you going to get out?
Think about it, and let me know your thoughts by posting a comment.
Wednesday, 2 November 2011
Training Historians
I spent yesterday running a workshop on behalf of Unlimited Potential at the National Archive in Kew, Surrey. Working there is always a pleasure, though historians and archivists are rarely the first people one thinks of when considering who would make a great presenter.
Feedback from the day included comments like "This was a great course, and I appreciated that it was made to be relevant to my work outside of presentations" and "This is essential for anyone presenting to any audience. Superb delivery of the day."
It's things like this that make my job so rewarding.
Today's tip for presentation is a rule of three. When you are preparing a presentation, consider your head, your heart and your feet. Your head - what are the facts of your presentation? Your heart - what emotions do you carry into it? Your feet - what's your motivation for making it? For a brilliant presentation you need to have all three aspects lined up and congruent.
Feedback from the day included comments like "This was a great course, and I appreciated that it was made to be relevant to my work outside of presentations" and "This is essential for anyone presenting to any audience. Superb delivery of the day."
It's things like this that make my job so rewarding.
Today's tip for presentation is a rule of three. When you are preparing a presentation, consider your head, your heart and your feet. Your head - what are the facts of your presentation? Your heart - what emotions do you carry into it? Your feet - what's your motivation for making it? For a brilliant presentation you need to have all three aspects lined up and congruent.
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