Helping you be a better speaker/presenter!
I want you, my friends, to give great presentations!
Technical learners who want/need to share their ideas:
- They are all passionate about learning
- Some like to talk longer than their listeners can stand
- Some are so nervous their palms sweat, when thinking about speaking
Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people. - Joe E. Lewis
If you prepare effectively, present emotionally with effective props, you can give great presentations.
- prepare
- present
- props
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Do you want to be the guy who's session has only 3 people?
There are no bad presentation only boring ones.
Imagine you're standing in front of a group of strangers, your palms are sweating. You are unprepared. Doubt strangles your whole body. You open your mouth and nothing comes out.
A speech should not just be a sharing of information, but a sharing of yourself.
- Ralph Archbold
What am I talking about? Who is involved? Where is it? When is it? Why is it? How do I get it?
You can be a great speaker:
Prepare with Milo O. Frank. Get "How to Get Your Point Across in 30 Seconds or Less" Read it! Consult it for every presentation you give!
If you miss placed your copy remember:
OWAHSA
- Objective
- Who's Listening
- The Right Approach
- The Hook
- Your Subject
- Ask for It
Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.
- Robert Orben
Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk to much. Norman Vincent Peale
Better never begin than never make an end. George Herbert
Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Find out what's keeping them up nights and offer hope. Your theme must be an answer to their fears. Gerald C. Meyers
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak. Epictetus
Half wits talk much, but say little. Benjamin Franklin
I do not speak of what I cannot praise. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I don't care how much a person talks, if they only say it in a few words. Josh Billings
If you can't write your message in a sentence, you can't say it in an hour. Dianna Booher
It is delivery that makes the orators success. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause. Jack Benny
Most speakers speak ten minutes too long. James Humes
Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything. Herbert Gardner
One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography. William Ellery Channing
Oratory is the art of making deep noises form the chest sound like important massages from the brain. H. L. Phillips
Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. Bible
Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs, Silence that spoke and eloquence of eyes. Homer
Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners. Dale Carnegie
Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much. John Wayne
The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them. Alphonse De Lamartine
The secret of successful speakers? Passion and compassion with a purpose. Lily Walters
The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much. William Howard Taft
There are three things to aim at in public speaking: First to get into your subject, then to get your subject into yourself, and lastly, to get your subject into your hearers. Gregg
We speak that what we know and testify to that which we have seen. Bible