How To Give a Killer Presentation – With No Notes
At some point in your life, you are goingto be called upon to give a speech.
Now, this might be at work, this might bea best man's speech at a wedding; it doesn't matter where, because if you can't do thiswithout constantly looking down or looking to the PowerPoint to reference your notes,you are at a huge disadvantage.
Not only does it come across as inauthenticwhen you're not communicating to the people eye to eye, but if the PowerPoint breaks,which I've had happen, you're going to find yourself standing in front of a room fullof people who are waiting for you to speak and you have nothing to say.
So we want to avoid that and today I'm goingto teach you how.
The first thing you need to do is to createan outline of your speech that is memory friendly.
Now, what does this mean? The first thing is that it's chunked in a way thatyou can remember in your short-term memory.
Chunks, think of it like this.
If I were to tell you a phone number, that's10 digits.
You'll probably find that whenever you heara phone number, you've got to write it down or you got to remember the first half andask your friend to remember the second half, and then, you type it into the phone.
That's because there's 10 chunks.
That's too many for most people.
Most people can handle anywhere from 5 to9 chunks.
I play it safe, most of my videos, I had anywherefrom 3 to 5 chunks that I have, so your first piece is get an outline 3 to 5 bullet points,but these points need to, in your head, feel like they flow clearly from one to another.
This piece is very important.
This is how you avoid memorization.
It just kind of flows out of you.
So if I'm doing a piece on conversations,I'm going to do it in chronological order.
That makes sense to me, right? So the first thing is you approach someone,the second thing is what do you say to start the conversation, the third thing is what doyou do when you run out of things to say, and, finally, how do you say goodbye, right? That makes sense to me.
If you're giving a pitch and you're at a meeting,right? And you're trying to figure out how to structurethings, maybe you think about it from the customer's perspective.
First, they're gonna hit the marketing team,then they're gonna finally meet the sales team.
And once they get sold, they're gonna go tothe deliverables team.
Whatever it is, the pieces should flow naturallyin your head.
That will save you so much memorization workdown the line, that's why I avoid memorizing.
The second piece is that once you have thesebullets, you flush them out.
I will actually go in and I type everythingthat I can think of underneath each bullet.
That includes stories, things that I wantto get, details that I might not have thought of.
That's gonna help me communicate my main point.
But, more importantly, this gives me a chanceto edit the ones that I don't spend time on.
You've seen this before.
This is when I rambled.
This is when you ramble.
So the really key point is to find your details,and then, to cut the ones that don't support your purpose.
It's not to memorize all these, by the way,we just want to get it out on paper.
That's the second piece.
The third piece is now you've got a speechwritten for you, right? It's got these chunks.
It's got the details.
The third thing is to go through it and subvocalizethe entire thing, referencing your high-level bullet points, but without visual cues.
I realized that last since, I had a lot ofweird words in it, let's break it down.
So, first off, you want it, you've got your mainbullet points, but you're not memorizing this.
You're going through this speech and it's gonnachange a little bit every time–critically important.
People who try to memorize word for word,they blow it because they get off one word and they can't get back on the next sentence.
We all want to have like these main pointsthat we're memorizing.
When I say subvocalize, though, that meansthat you go through it and just kind of, you know, whisper to yourself.
You go through the whole speech like that.
Again, not going through it word for wordfor what you have on there, but just hitting those main points, but most importantly, youdo this without visual cues.
I can't tell you how many people I have seenthink that they're preparing for their speech by reading through it 20 times and then, theyget up there and there's nothing they can do but read the speech.
Or more common in the corporate world, peopledon't even realize they're doing it as they click through a PowerPoint, and they don'trealize that they're taking cues from this PowerPoint as they go; they haven't memorizedanything.
So, if the PowerPoint goes down, they've neverhad the exercise of actually connecting those pieces in their brain.
You need to go through it, shut your laptop,whatever and just kind of talk through it to yourself in your own words the only thingsyou need to worry about are those main points that should be memorized and should alreadyconnect.
If they don't connect, rewrite the speechso that it makes sense and put them in an order that sequences well and just clicksfor you.
You don't want to be memorizing here.
But there are things that you have to memorize,and that brings me to the fourth point.
The two things that I will memorize in justabout any video that I do are the first sentence and the last sentence.
You got to nail the first sentence.
Its got to have a hook.
You want it to be interesting.
Don't rift it, so get your first sentencedown word for word.
And, sometimes, I'll even get the first twoor three sentences down because my intros tend to be something that I stick on to thesevideos after I come up with the concept.
And, of course, the last sentence; we've allbeen part of a speech where the person did a good job, but at the end, they just kindof stood there and like, ".
And that's the end of my speech.
Thank you," right? That will blow it.
You don't have to say "Thank you, that's theend of my speech," to cue the applause.
You want to have something that has a tone,a finality.
If you've watched this channel, you know thatI do this all the time.
This is not a special one, it's just I'm usedto it.
I say, "Okay, so I hope that you guys haveenjoyed this video and I'm looking forward to seeing you in the next one.
" That is how I know that I'm done.
It's how you know that I'm done.
And then, of course, YouTube tells you thatI'm done when the video stops.
But, memorize word for word first sentence,last sentence, that's going to give you the sort of bumpers on either end.
And that's how you can speak for 10-20 minutesat a time without actually having to memorize that much.
I do it all the time.
I've just done it right here and I hope thatyou've seen the examples in it as I've gone through it.
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