Speech skills by Darren Lacroix Part B

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These are continued notes from a webinar that was offered to members of toastmasters. he has very good advice. His website is https://www.stagetimeworkshops.com/stage-timeworkshops. any misinformation is the fault of the note taker.

Top 10 virtual mistakes.
– Three unforgettable secrets.
– What is the most important part of the presentation?
– The most important part of a presentation is the thought process in the listener’s mind.
Secret: one
– Unforgettable presentation is built on a world-class structure.
– Tell them what you’re going to tell them
– Tell them.
– Tell them what you told them. This is structure but it’s not a world-class structure.
– Poor structure:
– Opening
– Tell a story, make a point
– Tell a story, make a point
– Tell a story make a point
– Tell a story; make a point
– Tell a story make a point
– Closing.
– These points are not connected. They need to connect to one goal.
– Don’t do that. A strong structure gives you confidence.
– Strong structure gives your audience clarity.

Components of a speech:
– Material: your stories, slides, & ideas?
– Delivery: the manner
– Structure: changing the structure of what he said when makes an impact.
– The structure is the crucial step to your speech.
– The structure does not freeze you, it frees you.
– What the first step to creating a good structure.
– Have the best speech model.
– Strong
– Unforgettable presentations:
– Strong opening
– What they are thinking? How is the audience respond or thinking?
– Answer: you need to answer their thought
– Get them to uncross their arms or are no longer acceptable.
– Premise. A good premise gets the audience to think about how to accomplish something.
– Point of wisdom: 7 min one point 45 min 3 words of wisdom.
– For example, you have an audience of all types of peoples. All types of experience with all three pieces of evidence will prove the point of wisdom. Have stories that cover the running of your audience.
Example Seamless transition:

Secret # 2
– You don’t have to climb MT. Everest,
– Personal story: a failed marriage
– The personal story failed sub shop.
– Michael Hauge; the goal of any story is to elicit emotion “great stories are not told, they are retold.
– Challenge: look at your photos on your phone.
– You take pictures when emotions are elicited. taking pictures of people in Ukraine. Another country has parking on sidewalks that can be seen.
– The video makes a point of connecting.
– Go through your old phone photos and ask yourself
– What amazes you?
– What amuses you?
– What moves you?
– What did I learn from this?
– Start a story file:
– Specificity builds creativity – Patricia Frip
– Remember; jot down important details and specific dialog. This helps in order to create a better story when you sit down to build it. You do not have to write the whole story. The key at this point is to capture the idea.
– Remember: use some keywords to help you.
– Your audience wants to hear you: but they really want to know you.
– Stop trying to make your story to launch your career. instead, use the stories you already have. make them so good someone will pay to hear them, Dave Fitzgerald.
– In the stories, there needs to be a change in the character.
– One audience heard a story, and it influences their actions.
Secret 3:
– The critical power of qualified feedback;
– Get an idea
– Try that idea
– Get feedback
– Then alter it.
– Speech skills by Darren Lacroix Part C
– These are continued notes from a webinar that was offered to members of toastmasters. he has very good advice. His website is https://www.stagetimeworkshops.com/stage-timeworkshops. any misinformation is the fault of the note taker.
– The path to mastery: Effort> (direction + correction) = mastery

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