Hey, welcome back to the Six Figure Mastermind. I'm glad you made it back for
part 2 of the 9 secrets of how to become a great public speaker.
Secret number 8. Keep it short. You wouldn't believe how
many people I throw up on that stage and they feel like 5 minutes is a long
time to talk. Once they get up there, time starts doing this weird like time
warp thing and pretty soon it's 45 minutes later, they're still talking and
they haven't made a point yet. Alright? Keep it short and sweet. K-I-S-S. Keep It
Short and Sweet. Keeping it short and sweet means this: You've probably heard
Mark Twain's quote that says, "If I had more time, I would have written a shorter
book." So... And one thing I encourage everyone to do while.... I never let any of
my students have notes on stage. I really encourage them to write their entire
presentation out in a document that they can get everything out of them that they
feel needs to be said. That will naturally filter some of the superfluous
stuff. And then when they get on stage and remember, I'm not going to let you have
any notes on stage. No bueno. When they get on stage, I'm actually going to ask
them to forget the notes, try to give all that content that they gave and in it
squish it in a 45 minute time frame. And then I'm going to ask him to accordion
that into a 20 minute time frame. And then I'm going to ask him to accordion that
into a five minute time frame. And then I'm going to squish you even tighter into a
two minute time frame. And they still need to deliver content that's valuable
for their audience. That's the hallmark of a master speaker. To be able to create
impact in 45 minutes, impact in two minutes. So, simple and shorter is better.
A masterful speaker will be able to master the energy of the entire room. So,
you know, you've walked on stage and when you ask people to enroll with you,
they're asking them to raise their hands, you're asking them to do these different
state changes throughout your presentation. You can kind of get a feel
for the people in the back of the room that don't want to play. In my classroom,
that doesn't fly. Because I get to manage the energy of my classroom. Now, don't get
me wrong. I'm... People are so completely a choice. But I am going to spot the black
holes my audience. And I'm going to bring intention to them without embarrassing.
And I'm just going to lift the entire energy of the entire space. So, if I see
someone that's being a black hole in my audience, I'm going to feel free to just
walk over to them and just stand next to them when I'm presenting. It actually is
very non-threatening and it brings the energy in the entire room. Letting
that person know that, "Hey, I see you. I'm welcoming you into my space. I hope that
you play." And you know what? You're going to dispel a lot of hecklers just by
naturally paying attention to the entire room. And guess what? You're managing
dozens. Maybe even hundreds of people and you have the masterful ability to do
that when you're willing to connect with your audience. Last secret of public
speaking. And this is one... Like underline this. If you're taking notes, highlight
this one. Listen very carefully. This is a mistake that most speakers make. People
will make excuses for being on stage. They'll apologize so often when they
never need to and they'll do it for three reasons with that come the three T's.
They will apologize about the time. How many times have you listened to a
lecturer or a guest speaker and they will from the front of the room
apologize for taking too much time or not knowing what time it is or wanting
to cut their time short or taking too much of your time. Never apologize for
the time that you're taking onstage. People are coming to hear your message
on purpose. And you don't need to be sorry one bit for taking any more or
less time. Be conscious, be conscious of your time. You don't want to be
encroaching on other people's time. But people don't know from the audience's
perspective what you're doing on accident and what you're doing on
purpose. So, there's no need to bring unwanted attention to it. The second T to
never apologize for is tech. I can't even tell you. I remember watching a
presentation by one of my highly respected professors. And I loved going
to his class. I was a fangirl of his from before I saw him in college. He
would write books and produce content that I just ate up like crazy.
And when I got to his university, I sat down in my seat and I thought, "I cannot
wait. I've got my notes ready. I've got my papers ready. I cannot wait." I'm actually
sitting in person at this superstar's classroom. I get there and the PowerPoint
won't work. I kid you not. This amazing person that I looked up to. It was
incredible human being spent no less than 20 minutes trying to get that silly
PowerPoint to work and not delivering content because his tech wasn't working.
Then whether it's a PowerPoint, whether it's a microphone, whether it's a
smartboard or whether it's lighting. I don't care what your tech is that you're
using. If you apologize and waste time trying to fix the tech instead of
delivering your message, you've just wasted the entire rooms worth of time. If
you've got a hundred people and you spend 10 minutes, that's a hundred times
10 minutes of people's time that you've wasted. They came here to hear you not to
see you mess with some tech. So, if it's not working,
abandon it and move on. The last thing that I see people apologize for all the
time is the third T. Tears. And I mean emotions. And by that, I mean people will
feel the emotion of what they're presenting. They'll feel the passion.
They'll feel the call. They'll feel the deep down nitty-gritty of this message
that they know they absolutely have to share and naturally it will draw up some
emotion from them. At least I hope it would. The pitfall is apologizing for it.
Every Sunday, go to a room full of people that are sharing from the heart. They
share in the church that I go to. They speak. And almost every time I will watch
them feel the passion and then I'll watch them back off from the passion and
apologize for feeling the way they feel. Do you have any idea what that does
to your audience? Do you have any idea that the sever in connection happens
with your apology of your emotions? Do you have any idea what you're giving up
by not allowing your audience to feel what you're feeling? You may as well not
even get on stage. If you're going to apologize for the way that you're
feeling. The way that your audience connects with you is because something
matters to you. Something is important to you and if your audience is allowed to
feel that for themselves, you've made it. So, don't ever apologize for feeling your
emotions on stage. Thanks for tuning in today. I hope you
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