Want to Be a Better Public Speaker? Then You Need to Master These 6 Tricks

Why does public speaking matter? Because this skill isn’t optional — not if you want to thrive in your career.

Indeed, every manager in every organization across every industry today is expected to know how to deliver a presentation. Whether you’re speaking while seated at a team meeting or roaming the room while keynoting a confab, you’ll find that addressing an audience is one of the most profitable skills you can possess.

Let me help you harness this power.

As a result of attending the below workshop, you’ll learn a variety of essential how-tos, including:

1. How to overcome your anxiety.
2. How to prepare.
3. How to interact with your audience.
4. How to vary your pitch and pace.
5. How to deploy your body language.
6. How to deliver your one big idea.
7. How to make your presentation a performance.

Transcript

1. WANT TO BE A BETTER PUBLIC SPEAKER? THEN YOU NEED TO MASTER THESE 7 TRICKS
2. WHY?
4. “That course gave me the most important degree I have. It’s incalculable how much value I got from that hundred dollars.” —Warren Buffet
5. “Your message is only as good as your ability to deliver it.” —Brad Phillips
6. Glossophobia Preparation Theater Body Language Interaction Slides
7. 1 Big Idea Zoom
8. TRICK #1 GLOSSOPHOBIA
9. — OBLIGATORY — — REFERENCE —
14. “The secret to controlling nervous energy is not to eliminate the butter- flies. It’s to get the butterflies flying in the same direction.” —Carmine Gallo
15. MYTH REALITY I’ll never conquer my glossophobia. Plenty of C.E.O.s, billion- aires, and even TED Talk- ers were once terrified of public speaking.
16. Focus on a spot on the back wall.
17. Make eye contact with people for no less than two seconds, but no more than five.
18. Imagine your audience is naked. Make eye contact with people for no less than two seconds, but no more than five.
19. Remember: the audience wants you to succeed! 4 Imagine your audience is naked. Make eye contact with people for no less than two seconds, but no more than five.
20. “You got this, Jon!” “I’m going to nail this!” “I’ve practiced; I’m prepared; I’m poised!”
21. “The biggest thing that really separated me through my career was my mental game — everything that was in-between my ears.” —Michael Phelps
23. TRICK #2 PREPARATION
25. “If you want to combat nerves, be more prepared. It’s the Midwestern work ethic.” —Jeff Daniels
27. “Genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration.” —Thomas Edison
28. MYTH REALITY You can overpractice. There’s no such thing as “too much” practice.
29. MYTH REALITY Great speakers are naturally gifted. Show me a gifted speaker, and I’ll show you someone who spent years honing that gift.
32. TRICK #2 PREPARATION A Spec Sheet
34. Introduction
35. Room Layout Introduction
36. Confidence Monitor Room Layout Introduction
37. Audience Confidence Monitor Room Layout Introduction
40. “If a fire causes a stampede to the unmarked exits, it will have been worth it to those who survive.” —Steve Jobs
41. TRICK #2 PREPARATION Feedback
42. “Steve stopped, stepped out of character, reduced the volume of his voice, and asked executives seated in the front row what they thought of some turn of a phrase or whether they believed the ideas flowed together smoothly. Feedback received, Steve would pause quite deliberately for a second or two, go back into character, and resume his keynote persona.” —Ken Kocienda
43. TRICK #2 PREPARATION Your Achilles’ Heel
45. TRICK #2 PREPARATION Length
46. TRICK #2 PREPARATION Technical Difficulties
47. TRICK #2 PREPARATION How to Prepare
50. “We’re creatures of habit. The better your habits are, the better they will be in pressure situations.” —Wayne Gretzky
52. TRICK #2 PREPARATION How Not to Prepare
56. 😴 Sleep strengthens your memory. 😴 Sleep enables you to focus. 😴 Sleep regulates your emotions. 😴 Sleep gives you energy you’re awake.
57. TRICK #2 PREPARATION How Much to Prepare
60. TRICK #2 PREPARATION To Script or Not to Script
62. SEMANTICS CONNECTION Memorize language. Deliver every word with precision. Memorize ideas. Inspire and influence people.
63. “Probably the worst of all public- speaking sins is the temptation to disappear into your notes and read, as opposed to speak, to your audience. If they wanted to be read to, you could’ve just sent them an email with your speech content.” —Bridget De Maine Script
65. TRICK #2 PREPARATION Pump Yourself Up
68. TRICK #2 PREPARATION Checklist
69. q Arrive early. q Test for tech difficulties. q Walk the room. q Make small chat. q Pump yourself up. q Check yourself out in the mirror.
70. TRICK #3 THEATER
71. TRICK #3 THEATER Variety
72. q Play an audio or video clip. q Show a physical object. q Write on a board. q Ask an audience member to read a slide. q Move to the opposite side of the room. Variety
73. TRICK #3 THEATER Movement
74. Movem ent
75. Movem ent
76. Movem ent
77. “It sounds like a tiny thing, but it was transformative.” —Kumail Nanjiani Movem ent
78. TRICK #3 THEATER Humor
79. “When you talk to people about — let’s call them ‘issues,’ okay? — they have their defenses up. They’re going to defend their point of view, the thing they’re used to, the ideas they hold dear, and you have to take a long, logical route to get through to them. But when you’re doing comedy, people are open; and when the moment of laughter comes, their guard is down, so you can introduce new data.” —George Carlin Hum or
80. TRICK #3 THEATER Clothes
82. TRICK #3 THEATER Props
83. Props
84. Props
85. Props
86. Props
87. TRICK #3 THEATER Test and Tweak
88. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy The Big Short Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby Vice Test
89. TRICK #3 THEATER Showmanship
90. “Always leave them wanting more.” —P.T. Barnum
92. “Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away.” —Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
93. TRICK #4 BODY LANGUAGE
94. “What people tell you with their eyes and hands is more important than what they tell you with their mouth.” —Lyndon Johnson
95. TRICK #4 BODY LANGUAGE Your Hands
98. TRICK #4 BODY LANGUAGE Bodystorming
99. TRICK #4 BODY LANGUAGE Rocking
100. TRICK #4 BODY LANGUAGE Preparation
101. TRICK #5 INTERACTION
103. “Listening is hard. Think about it. You’re in a less-than-comfortable chair, sitting up straight, crammed in among other people in the same situation. There’s no polite way to distract yourself with your phone or laptop. You certainly can’t read something. You have to sit there formal and poised, looking interested even if you’re not.” —Mike Long
105. TRICK #5 INTERACTION Brain Breaks
106. Image Identification Quotes Recaps Polls
107. TRICK #6 SLIDES
108. The slides are chock-full of text. Speakers read their slides. The slides lend themselves to a lecture.
109. I use my slides as notes.
110. “The slides are for the audience, not the speaker. The purpose of projecting something on the wall is to reinforce, not repeat, the speaker’s words.” —Robert Frost Long Answer
111. “Your deck is your sidekick, not your Teleprompter.” —Amanda Holt Short Answer
113. TRICK #7 1 BIG IDEA
117. TRICK #8 ZOOM
118. TRICK #8 ZOOM Lighting
119. TRICK #8 ZOOM Interruptions
120. TRICK #8 ZOOM Scenery
121. TRICK #8 ZOOM Scenery
122. TRICK #8 ZOOM Webcam
124. TRICK #8 ZOOM Mind Your Visitors
125. I’d love to speak to your team! See anything of interest here? JonathanRickPresentations.com