The document provides tips for improving public speaking skills. It recommends opening your mouth by considering your audience and using simple language. It suggests opening your mind by practicing your content, context, and inner conversations. It also advises opening up your body language by avoiding barriers and building trust with your audience. Additionally, it notes the importance of opening your lungs by breathing well and making friends with pauses to aid speech pacing. The document ends by recommending opening your ears by focusing on listeners and getting feedback.
16. “Practice is the one habit that
transforms a merely good
presentation into a TED-worthy
performance.”
—Carmine Gallo
17.
18. •Stories
•Metaphors & similes
(website is like a 🏠
house)
•Visuals in your slides (
🐶dogs & 🐎horses!)
•Vivid, concrete words (
🍗BBQ vs. truth)
•Props
Photo by Ben Chun [Flickr]
20. Open your mind
•Practice
•Make your speech
visual
•Change your view on
nerves
By scanned by de:Benutzer:Summi - Friedrich Eduard Bilz (1842–1922):
Das neue Naturheilverfahren (75. Jubiläumsausgabe), Public Domain
25. Open up the front of your body
•Avoid barriers
•Build trust with
your audience
•Open hands,
open torso
Entrant to the Green Heart Schools
public speaking competition, photo
courtesy of Brisbane City Council
29. Make friends with the pause
(1,2,3 gather yourself) “This is
what you need to know about us
…(1,2,3 build suspense)
We are cool web developers.”
…(1,2,3 people can reflect on this
important nugget)
37. In conclusion: your homework! Write down:
•Mouth
•Mind
•Front of body
•Lungs
•Ears
Extra credit: consider joining Toastmasters or form a practice group!
40. Let me know how you use this!
Genevieve A. Howard
@HowGen
genevievehoward.com/heweb16/
howardg@missouri.edu
41. Sources
Books
• Quiet by Susan Cain
• Talk like Ted by Carmine Gallo
Articles
• The One Habit That Brilliant TED Speakers Practice Up To 200 Times by Carmine Gallo, Forbes
• How the Power of Expectations Can Allow You to 'Bend Reality' by Gareth Cook, Scientific American
• 9 Speaking Habits That Make You Sound Smarter by Geoffrey James, Inc.
• Mastering The Fine Art Of Getting To The Point by Joe McCormack, Fast Company
• What to do with your hands when speaking in public, By Jena McGregor & Shelly Tan, Washington Post
Editor's Notes
What makes a speech horrible?
Or good?
Can I renew my training subscription?
Unlike adult dogs, adult humans have better reading comprehension than hearing https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233492497_The_relationship_between_listening_and_reading_comprehension_of_different_types_of_text_at_increasing_grade_levels
Inattention: We only truly focus for six hours per week. That’s because attention spans are shrinking. We’re down from 12 seconds in 2000 to eight seconds today. https://www.fastcompany.com/3025114/how-to-be-a-success-at-everything/mastering-the-fine-art-of-getting-to-the-point
Know what you want to say, memorize your key points
Practice in the room in front of people, get familiar with your equipment
What you say to yourself matters
With the stress of performance, you lose your ability. As a rider, I jumped half a foot higher at home so when I go to the show, the jumps looked smaller.
Practice it harder and perform it easier.
Make your speech visual. How?
Hands and eyes are crucial parts of communications. If you lose your eyes and hands to notes, you’ve lost the audience. People will watch your hands.
You have a lot of power in your mind! Change your mind to welcome the feeling of nervousness. That extra boost brings good energy and enthusiasm to your talk!
Notes on his hands, Open palm gestures build trust
consultant Vanessa Van Edwards studied famous TED talks and found that the ones that went viral and became wildly popular featured the speakers who used their hands the most. The least-watched TED talks had an average of 124,000 views and used an average of 272 hand gestures. The top-ranked ones, meanwhile, had an average of 7.4 million views and 465 hand gestures during the same length of time.
Notice how you are sitting right now.
Stand up!
We tend to collapse in (keyboards, fatigue, stress)
String in crown of head.
Ears over shoulders over hip over ankle.
The power of the pause allows people to digest what you have said. https://www.fastcompany.com/3025114/how-to-be-a-success-at-everything/mastering-the-fine-art-of-getting-to-the-point
Removing filler words strengthens your speaking.
The power of the pause allows people to digest what you have said. https://www.fastcompany.com/3025114/how-to-be-a-success-at-everything/mastering-the-fine-art-of-getting-to-the-point
Removing filler words strengthens your speaking. Then can sit down.
Hear the words inside the words: My experience with meeting before when I felt defensive and recently, explaining how site was made for mobile
Know your bio in one minute or less
Join Toastmasters or form a practice group
Now with these new skills you too can impress people…