What's up Explearners welcome back to my channel I'm so happy that you're here
in this video we're talking about ways to wow your audience how do you get them
to say wow instead of ow six awesome strategies for you that you can start
right away stay tuned I want you to think back to a time when you were in
the audience and you have to listen to a pretty darn boring speech hmm so you
probably don't remember it because it was that insufferable we usually
remember speeches that are meaningful and impactful those are the ones that we
want to replicate in the sense of its style and delivery and effectiveness now
on the flip side if you're the speaker and you have the tendency of reading off
your note card or even worse than actual speech or maybe you're reciting numbers
from an excel chart then you're probably going to want to stick around for this
one it almost seems obvious right the speech that's given in a super dull
boring way is just a snoozefest waiting to happen and we don't want anyone
hitting snooze well we're the one giving the talk right I don't even know what's
worse if you're the one giving the top in a super boring way or if you're the
audience having to listen to that talk regardless we're talking about how you
as a speaker can improve your delivery skills so that you can give the audience
a WOW speech don't put your audience to sleep by
droning on and on and on and bombarding them with superfluous facts nobody wants
to listen to that the question then becomes how do i captivate my audience
so that they actually pay attention not just at the beginning when I hook them
with an exciting way of starting but for the entire duration of the talk how do I
do that here's how number what the so what answer the so what you know what
follows so what dot dot dot why should I care so
for this you have to speak to the audience's interest but if you don't
know the audience there's no way you can figure out what they're interested in so
do the research beforehand figure out who these people are are they from the
same speech community are they on the same team are they from the same
department as you do they belong to certain associations that you're part of
anything that you can learn about the audience is vital because that will help
you prepare your speech really well in a way that's going to engage them get them
interested and have them connect with you on multiple levels and all this
information combined about who they are and what they love is gonna help answer
that so what question for you because you're the one who's gonna answer that
so that they're not gonna have to scratch their heads wondering what this
so what why should I care about this top how does it affect me right so that is
the idea behind me so what and how you're gonna answer this so one question
number two buying the freight guess the reality is that we as humans are
hard-wired to love storytelling we love telling stories we love listening to
stories that's our jam and so if you think about
it I want you to pay attention to the story arc or the narrative arc right the
most exciting part of that is the climax that's where the conflict happens that's
where the tension is right so we like stories that have that it's not just a
story that's super happy all the time right that's actually pretty darn boring
and monotone we like the excitement where challenges that person has to
overcome what are the obstacles that get in their way
it makes the story all the better right so pay attention to that and use it in
your own speech talk about the freakiest talk about the complex talk about the
tension that is what makes the story interesting
when the story unfolds and you come to the conflict you want to know more so
bring your listeners on a rollercoaster ride with you they'll be thrilled that
you did number three make it a sensory experience and by this
I mean find ways of engaging all five senses think about using descriptive
language Howard Gardner's multiple intelligences theory helps us understand
that people learn differently they process data and information
differently so if we can engage multiple senses while telling a story or giving
information or trying to persuade somebody then we'll get more people
engaged because again everybody has a different way of learning and retaining
information and processing what you tell them there's no one-size-fits-all with
teaching and learning and receiving information and you know registering it
so what we have to do here then is engage all five senses to get everyone
in the audience able to hold on to something and take away something from
your talk when you share a concept or an abstract idea you want everyone in the
audience to follow you never ever leave anyone in the audience behind you want
to be as inclusive as possible and it goes back to knowing your audience but
also knowing that everyone is able to learn differently so what should you do
engage all five senses the more descriptive the language the easier the
audience will find it you paint the picture in their mind's eye and the more
visceral the image the easier it is to grasp an abstract concept or idea but
online sensory language which appeals to our five senses can help reform educate
entertain and persuade us which makes it for more fun and interactive speak
instead of saying Jim has bad posture what you could say instead is Jim has
the posture of an old man crooked neck forming a 90 degree angle with his
shoulders that's so much more powerful than just saying jim has bad posture
number four the magic of metaphors metaphors are a poetic device but
they're also really effective when you want to describe something that is not
very easy to grasp metaphors and analogies are like magic they allow you
to imagine something in your mind's eye and you get this visceral image of
something that was once abstract and really difficult to understand and it
also makes you feel like you're experiencing that thing right then and
there in the moment for example if I'm talking about fear of public speaking or
stage fright I might say something like fearing the stage is like eating a
grasshopper it's not gonna hurt you but it sure is
scary right so that's kind of funny if you think about it speaking too quickly
it's like over whipping your eggs you get to the same place but the outcome is
not as good communicating across cultures is like building a bridge it
allows ideas to travel across borders for this I would suggest coming up with
your own don't resort to using a cliche metaphor because the audience is not
going to remember that they'll understand what you're talking about but
again we want to WOW the audience so come up with your own and test it out on
your friends and see if they get what you're trying to stay find ways of
jump-starting the audience's imagination they'll find it more interactive and
they'll appreciate you and your speech that much more
number five spice it up with your voice that is your voice is an instrument so
play it there is no need to be monotone and robotic that is the easiest surefire
way of putting your audience to sleep so we want to avoid that obviously don't
tune your audience out that's definitely out to my ears if I'm listening to
somebody who's just speaking in a monotone voice without any intonation
riser fault right don't you don't do it so what do we do instead we altered the
tone of our voice the volume the speed back throws curveballs here in there and
it makes the speech unpredictable because you they want to listen to you
they want to listen to the rise and falling intonation the prosody which is
your intonation and just what you can do with your voice and how you know and how
high you can go right the other way you can spice it up is with variation but
also with humor you might choose to incorporate it a joke or a funny story
or self-deprecating humor if that's your gem but anyway that you can get the
audience to laugh is a really really good thing a side note can also help to
turn a speech that's predictable and too unpredictable and that's what we want a
technique that speech coaches like to use is called salting that's when you
ask the audience a question that they want to know the answer to and you
address it at some point in the speech but just be careful of this because if
you promise the ions that you're gonna answer a question for them then you make
sure you do don't forget to answer that question number six real talk
sometimes the speaker can appear intimidating to the audience maybe
that's because you're super successful or you're a famous person or maybe you
have confidence that you're exuding and it's just oozing from your pores
whatever is the root of that intimidation doesn't really matter but
take away from this is that if your audience finds you intimidating they're
not going to connect with you they're not going to find you relatable or
approachable and they're gonna zone out so what do you do in this case
give them some real talk so what's real talk well you can reveal a struggle or
snafu that you encountered along your path to success you're revealing a
vulnerable and very human side to you the idea behind this is to make yourself
approachable and relatable and to show that you're just like them and they can
connect with you all the better all right Explearners I hope you enjoyed
this video follow these strategies and you're on your way to becoming a *super
fly speaker* and the next time you find yourself in front of an audience
try out these six tips and see which one's works for you and how you can WOW
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