6. [1] Audiences think faster
Slow Talk
than you speak
3 to 1 ratio
• Talk 150 to 200 Plus WPM Wondering
Distracted
• Comprehend 600 Plus WPM
• Gunslinger: Shoots1/20 of Second
• 600 thought-moments: 1 minute
• Gunslinger awareness 1/10 of sec.
• People judge at 1/100 of sec. source: Richard Weaver II Ph.D.
12. PowerPoint
300 Plus 1. Screen: no match to speech
bad ways 2. Subject: old with cliché
3. Screen: too text full
4. Screen: read it
5. Screen: walk in front
6. Rushed content – major issue
7. Subject: too detailed – abstract
8. Voice: monotone – whisper
9. Added to the list
13. Short-Term Memory
The brainbox Limits
90
50 30
21 300 Brain
75 Box
5
Short Term Working Memory Capacity
Human Attention Span: 7 + or - 2
Miller Ph.D. Harvard 1955 Study
14. 3. Take away lost:
• 40% - 60% Short term Loss
• 4%-10% Remembered - over time
• They forget: middle of speech
• Remember 100% feelings about you
Stuff-F-Educators Bob McCormick - Prime ref. Hermann Ebbinghaus
15. Take
Boredom
Inventory
Canned Salad and Canned Speech
16. Position Emphases:
first vs. last said
People Remember
either:
• Last is First
• First is First
1957 Carl Hovland Ph.D 1992 AllPsych-Online
17. Change Out
Worn
Concepts
Growth: Change Perceptions
Change Metaphor
18. “…like Herding Cats”
how about Sound
…herding sea otters Stupid
or 100 five year olds List
100
More
“COMPARING APPLES AND ORANGES”
As compared to bananas and camels?
Find New
Refresh Old cliché
30. Time Line
Profiles Assess
The nature of the audience structures how
much detail you start with. If it’s a technical
or financial oriented, you will need to explain
your research and analytical steps. A
motivational nature needs a story to start
with. A mixed audience needs repeated
variation from summary to details
31. Body Language Dialogue
1. Make sweeping scans – read the room
2. Pick people focus points – talk to them
3. Pause at key point – change pace
4. Ask thought questions – “time sponge”
5. Adapt to feedback positive negative
Intentionally blankHow many of you have been bored by PowerPoint presentation?Why start a speech with Walt Disney like PowerPoint opening?Get away from big screen splash and flash for your opening and closing.Tell a story…maybe with a simple metaphoric imageMany of you are successful and are good speakers. The challenge is successful trap. Some of you can speak on anything anywhere anytime. So what happens. Curiel and thoughts are not planned for the current audience. I know three years ago I started to go to the national speakers Association Oklahoma took part in speaker tuneup program… And failed miserably in my first speech. I have a standard 20 min. presentation they asked for an 8 min. presentation I rushed through the speech I read the screen I walked in front of the screenIf you use the proven behavioral and presentation methods, you will be successful.I will use a variety of slide styles for contrasts.Four behavorial facts…why use them?
Killer number one boredom generator
Level of detail is a critical determinate in the flow of the speech. Some occupations explicitly have a preference for presentation order.For example, scientist, engineers, doctors and financial analysts, want the method of analysis, then the detail and finally the conclusionsSummary.Executives and general population want the conclusion and call to actions summary up front. They then expect the support point and facts to follow. These guideline also follow industries and agencies operational natureStorytelling appeals across the whole spectrum. Age, experience and level of expertize call for different speech adaptationIf it is a mix audience, the s