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Engage Your Audience Beforehand Meet and greet your audience before your speech. I always make it a point to arrive early to the speaking venue to meet audience members either at the gate of the venue or by walking around the hall. In recent events I took this to a higher level. I started using subtle influencing techniques on the audience to shape their expectations about my speech. For example, after greeting the delegates sitting around the tables, I would tell them: “I have a feeling you will laugh a lot today. I can sense it right now. You like to have fun, right?” And their answer is almost guaranteed: “Of course! Who doesn’t?”
World Class Speaking in Action
Craig Valentine
This is the Hero's Journey, which—modified in various ways—we see repeated in stories throughout history. The simple version of this is that pattern of tension that we learned from Aristotle. We have an ordinary person (what is), and we have adventure that lies ahead (what could be). The transference from one to the other is the journey.
The Storytelling Edge
Shane Snow, Joe Lazauskas
We all have two parts to play in that process. The first is to be lovely even when we can get away with not being lovely. When we act poorly, when we take advantage of someone else, when we are cruel, we make the world a little less civilized. But we also have a part to play in encouraging others to behave well and to discourage others from behaving badly. And that is to honor those who are honorable and to dishonor those who are dishonorable. Our accumulated actions create the standards of loveliness. We create the understandings of the impartial spectator that we each in turn use to moderate our self-centeredness. This doesn’t mean making snap judgments about other people’s behavior and then reprimanding or snubbing them, or criticizing our friends and family for every mistake they make. There is often more to the story. We are all human and flawed. But we usually know if those around us are good people or not.
How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life
Russ Roberts
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