The trick is to sound like it's impromptu even though you've prepped
that talk to a tee here's how so you've clots in the hours you put in so much
time and effort and work into the research and then writing the script of
the speech but now it comes time to practicing the talk and you just sound
so robotic and so rehearsed as if you're reading off of a sheet of paper so that
is the problem that we are going to address in this video today and I'm
gonna give you strategies that are gonna help you sound prepared but not
rehearsed are you with me so here are the three tips as to how you are going
to sound prepared but not robotic and not rehearsed number one take your
script and shred it to pieces I'm only half-kidding on this but take
your script that whole entire document with all of those amazing words that
you've written on it and only take out the key words so for this you can take a
highlighter and go through paragraph by paragraph oh my gosh you paragraphs ah
that is why that is why you're reading off of your script and that it's a
script right explorers we have to avoid that as tempting as it may be but this
is really gonna help you focus on the key words and you take those out and you
put it into a new document and now you have only those really great key words
in that document so it becomes more of an outline the best thing is to have
just one word per bullet point but if you can't get there yet then do no more
than four you want to avoid having long bullet points because then it's really
pros just put the content words on there you can avoid the less important words
avoid articles so the idea here is just to take out the most important key word
for the points for the examples for anything else that you want to share
with the audience and just keep it to that so it serves
more as a memory jolt than having all those words on your script and getting
so caught up and lost in them that you feel the urge to just read taking out
the key words and putting them in a new file and keeping it to one to four where
as per bullet point will prevent you from reading off of your sheet of paper
number two practice practice practice practice you've got to practice now you
practice with that new sheet of paper that you have it doesn't have to be a
sheet of paper per se it can be on your phone or your your tablet whatever
device you might use in the actual speech but whatever you use in the
actual speech practice using in your rehearsal write so that you can make
sure that you're comfortable with that paper with that device and so on the
idea here is that you're not looking at that old script right you're not reading
off of that script instead you are having those words come to you and
remembering what you're going to say so you might say all right but I'm totally
lost I don't know how to do that well then you have to be really familiar with
the topic then we have to go back a step really all you need to do is know the
topic very very well and then be able to look at a keyword and speak to it just
by seeing that word it's a great way of building your memory so practice
practice practice practice it out loud practice it with the pauses practice it
with the hand gestures that go with what you're going to say and do that in a
space that you can actually move around right you want to replicate the area the
space that you're going to be presenting in if it's a talk behind the podium
practice it at the podium although I highly encourage you to avoid the podium
so when you go to the venue or the meeting room that you're going to give
the talk in look at the podium say hello and then sayonara and use the space that
you have it's so much better and it will allow
you to pace with purpose so once you've practiced and you feel
really comfortable or at least as comfortable as you can be just by having
those words in your hands and in your mind hopefully by the end of it they're
in your mind then number three I want you to embrace the spontaneity with
every live performance there is always the possibility of something going
unexpectedly I'm not gonna say going wrong because sometimes those unexpected
occurrences during a talk actually make the the talk more memorable more fun for
you for the audience so it's just knowing that there's always gonna be a
margin of a margin I'm not gonna call it a margin of error there's always a
margin of magic we're live performances we'll just take
a different turn now this is not to say that you're gonna have to deviate from
your script but this is why we avoid calling it a script it's a skeleton
framework it's talking points that you have inculcated in you you know them
really well because you put in the work you put in the time you put in the
actual effort of getting the talk to where you want it to be and now there's
always room for the margin of magic so be aware that there will be certain
things be it from the audience be it from the technology that you use be it
the mood of the crowd at the time the time of day so many factors can change
the way that the speech or the talk unfolds so just be able and be ready and
be excited to embrace it okay this is not a test
this is a way of sharing ideas of spending time with people and doing a
knowledge transfer so this outlining approach doesn't tie
you to the script you're not shackled to your script you
have things that you want to share with the audience and if there's a question
comes up in the audience you address it if something else happens it emerges
organically from the event itself you address it your sound is totally off and
somebody needs to bring you a microphone laugh about it it's ok you can add a
little bit of levity you're only human and it will make the talk more
interesting because they won't see a rehearsal neutralized speech in a
robotic form instead they're gonna see a human who has a great idea that he or
she wants to share with the group who can inspire and get everyone to think
about something that is really important to that person we're not robots let's
not act like a robot and instead of sounding rehearsed
you're gonna sound prepped the next time you have a talk try out these three
strategies and you'll start to see that you're actually more comfortable with
the outline and soon enough you're not even gonna need that outline you're
gonna have it all up here explorers I can guarantee with more practice doing
the talks in this way and I say talk but that also refers to a meeting or you
know a more high profile conversation maybe with VC investors or you're
pitching an idea to somebody you don't want to pull out your script right you
don't want to pull out that outline you want to have it here okay so doing these
three strategies is gonna get you closer to having it in your mind so that you
can reflect your confidence and your grasp on the subject
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