Check out this interview with Randall Craig on Professionally Speaking TV where we talk about Teamwork, speaking, and being President of the National Speakers Association.
Interview with Randall Craig – Professionally Speaking TV
Use Inclusive Language During Your Presentations
This blog is all about making your presentations more engaging and interactive so your audiences will be inspired to take action. One question that keeps coming up is “How do you know?” Other than witnessing the audience’s response to your speech, here’s a simple litmus test to tell if you are using inclusive language or making it all about YOU.
Check out this 3 minute video explanation of this technique taken from my book, Boring to Bravo: Proven Presentation Techniques to Engage, Involve, and Inspire Your Audiences to Action. And, if you’d like to take up the challenge to listen to one of your presentations and count how many times you use the inclusive words of you, yours, we, and ours versus the more self-centered words of I, me, and mine, then download this checksheet. Ideally, you want to have a ratio of at least 2:1 in using more inclusive language.
This is the first in many video descriptions of the various techniques – and will also be posted in the video library. Enjoy the video!
Use Music to Enhance Your Presentation
As one who flies the friendly skies about once a week, I was amused to find this flight attendant take a rather boring onboard flight briefing and make it into an interactive rap song. Check it out here!
Who says you can’t make a one-way presentation interesting and interactive? :-)
Impressive Powerpoint Visuals
I just love watching speakers at the TED website. In case you’re not familiar with TED, it stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader.
The annual conference now brings together the world’s most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes).
A friend of mine, Dan Poynter, author of the Self-Publishing Manual directed me toward Hans Rosling‘s presentation in 2006. Hans is a bit of a nerd, but debunks your thinking about population growth with some amazing visuals. Could he have done it with PowerPoint animation? Not sure if he did (maybe used a Mac?), but it certainly gives me lots of ideas about how to make statistics come alive!
Check out Hans Rosling’s Presentation here.
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