106. 7 Tips to Become a Better Speaker – Create an Experience
Release Date: 06/05/2024
119. 11 Things Great Speakers Do Differently – Never Stop Growing
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118. 11 Things Great Speakers Do Differently – Understanding GRIT
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Speaker Mastermind Community: to find out more about the Paid to Speak Accelerator Community (aka Mastermind Community) and to put your name on our . Show Notes: 11 Things Great Speakers Do Differently #10 - Understanding GRIT Grit is NOT just having a Suck It Up Buttercup, grind-it-out mentality. According to Angela Duckworth, author of GRIT: The Power of Passion and Perseverance, there are two sides to grit: Passion and Direction Perseverance and Determination I highly recommend Angela Duckworth's book GRIT: Review: Here Are The Tips We've Covered So Far Episode 109 - Speak...
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117. 11 Things Great Speakers Do Differently – How You View YOU
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Speaker Mastermind Community: to find out more about the Paid to Speak Accelerator Community (aka Mastermind Community) and to put your name on our . Show Notes: 11 Things Great Speakers Do Differently #9 - How You View YOU One of the most attractive character traits of a great speaker or leader is humble confidence. Someone who is confident, but not cocky Someone who is humble, but does not have an "aw-shucks" attitude The best speakers are Experts who also view themselves as Fellow Travelers. Review: Here Are The Tips We've Covered So Far Episode 109 - Speak WITH Your...
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116. 11 Things Great Speakers Do Differently – Make Things Easy For Your Client
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Speaker Mastermind Community: to find out more about the Paid to Speak Accelerator Community (aka Mastermind Community) and to put your name on our . Show Notes: 11 Things Great Speakers Do Differently #8 - Make Things Easy For Your Client Always remember that you as the speaker are one small (but important) part of an event. If you are easy to work with, you make the Decision Maker and Meeting Planner's jobs easier. Ways to be easy to work with: Keep your Speaker Agreement and Rider simple Keep your fee structure simple Gather all the information you need from Meeting Planners in one...
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115. 11 Things Great Speakers Do Differently – Only Ask For Business IF You Are A Good Fit
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Speaker Mastermind Community: to find out more about the Paid to Speak Accelerator Community (aka Mastermind Community) and to put your name on our . Show Notes: 11 Things Great Speakers Do Differently #7 - Only Ask For Business IF You Are a Good Fit This strategy might seem counterintuitive, but in the long run, it is better to turn down an engagement that is not a good fit for you rather than lie and pretend it is a good fit. When you are honest about what you speak about and how you best serve clients, you will often discover the organization: Has other opportunities for you that are a...
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114. 11 Things Great Speakers Do Differently – Serve Before Selling
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Speaker Mastermind Community: to find out more about the Paid to Speak Accelerator Community (aka Mastermind Community) and to put your name on our . Show Notes: 11 Things Great Speakers Do Differently #6 - Serve Before Selling Decision-Makers buy from people they: Know Like (aka—respect) Trust However, most speakers have the attitude of Always Be Selling, so they come out of the gate selling. Great speakers, on the other hand, do things differently. Great speakers serve before trying to sell: They serve first, second, third, fourth, fifth, etc. They "court" before asking for a...
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113. 11 Things Great Speakers Do Differently – Great At Business
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Speaker Mastermind Community: to find out more about the Paid to Speak Accelerator Community (aka Mastermind Community) and to put your name on our . Show Notes: 11 Things Great Speakers Do Differently #5 - Great At Business Great speakers know the difference between B2C and B2B marketing and selling: B2C — Business to Customer B2B — Business to Business IMPORTANT: Speaking is a B2B Business 3 Recommended B2B Business Books You Likely Never Heard Of: by Al Ries and Jack Trout by C Weylman by Matt Church Review: Here Are The Tips We've Covered So Far Episode 109 - Speak WITH Your...
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112. 11 Things Great Speakers Do Differently – Step Into Your Character
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111. 11 Things Great Speakers Do Differently – Create Experiences
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Speaker Mastermind Community: to find out more about the Paid to Speak Accelerator Community (aka Mastermind Community) and to put your name on our . Show Notes: 11 Things Great Speakers Do Differently #3 - Create Experiences Good speakers tell a lot of stories that blend in together and lose their effectiveness. Great speakers tell fewer, more strategic stories that are more impactful. If your presentation revolves around one story, don't just tell the story. Instead, create an experience by stepping out of the story from time to time to make teaching points. If your presentation does not...
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110. 11 Things Great Speakers Do Differently – Bring Your Audience INTO The Story
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Show Notes: 7 Tips to Become a Better Speaker
#5 - Create an Experience for Your Audience
In the previous episodes of this series, I mentioned that if you want to serve your audience well, it's best to create a speech that is both enjoyable and educational.
Yet the truth is that the vast majority of speakers today focus almost exclusively on delivering content. They might throw in a joke or two and maybe even share a short illustration, but most of the time, it's content, content, content.
Have you ever sat through a 60 or 90-minute presentation that is all content? By the end, you probably feel like you've been sprayed with a firehose. What's worse is that you don't walk away remembering anything specific because anything worth remembering was crowded out by the rest of the content. It's just too much!
So how can you avoid overwhelming your audience with straight content?
Create an experience!
If you want to become a better speaker, you need to realize that less in more when it comes to presenting. So instead of cramming more content into their presentations, they look for ways to make their content sticky (aka so memorable that it sticks with audiences after the presentation).
In fact, instead of outlining their speech in the same way they would outline a research paper, they develop their speech like a scriptwriter storyboarding a movie. They ask themselves questions like:
- What is the one big idea that I want my audience to understand?
- How can I make that idea relevant? How can I make it come alive?
- Can I take the audience on a journey where they discover this idea for themselves?
- How can I create an experience that allows my audience to laugh or feel emotions along the way?
Here's the bottom line...
Don't just deliver content.
Create an experience that is enjoyable, educational, and best of all, sticky.
Episode Resources
- 9 Ways to Get Paid as a Speaker (FREE Resource)
- 5 Keys to Create a Speech That Pays (FREE Resource)
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