Practice practice practice

Fellow speaker,

TED speech event creator Chris Anderson suggests you repeatedly practice your speech to get it firmly in your head before giving it. You can either practice from a written out script, or a bullet pointed list of things to talk about. Either method leads to the same result, a firm idea in your mind of exactly what you are going to say onstage.

Practicing,

Tim Wilson
Professional Speech Coach
Free speaking tips at: http://speakingquicktips.blogspot.com

Make 'em laugh!

Fellow speaker,

TED speech event creator Chris Anderson suggests you can persuade people of your speech point if you show how the point opposite your speech point is impossibly silly. "You may think that recovering from this tragedy is impossible and you can't move forward in your life any more. This is very unlikely. After all, no one has ever managed to move backwards in their life."

Sillily,

Tim Wilson
Professional Speech Coach
Free speaking tips at: http://speakingquicktips.blogspot.com

Make me a metaphor

Fellow speaker,

TED speech event creator Chris Anderson suggests you use metaphors to get across ideas and concepts the audience may not be familiar with. Compare something in your speech to something in your audience world and show how they are similar. This will help your audience understand even the most complex ideas and concepts.

Metaphorically,

Tim Wilson
Professional Speech Coach
Free speaking tips at: http://speakingquicktips.blogspot.com

Story time

Fellow speaker,

TED speech event creator Chris Anderson suggests you start with a story. Facts sell while stories sell - tell an interesting, personal story to get the audience interested in your speech.

Storied,

Tim Wilson
Professional Speech Coach
Free speaking tips at: http://speakingquicktips.blogspot.com

Back and forth

Fellow speaker,

TED speech event creator Chris Anderson suggests you give a talk that is conversational. Be aware of the back and forth quality of your speech, sometimes focusing on your speech point, sometimes on your audience's reaction to that speech point.

Conversationally,

Tim Wilson
Professional Speech Coach
Free speaking tips at: http://speakingquicktips.blogspot.com

I'm just like you

Fellow speaker,

TED speech event creator Chris Anderson suggests you be human on the stage. Bring out your human imperfections and make it clear that you share the same common human interests as your audience.

Humanly,

Tim Wilson
Professional Speech Coach
Free speaking tips at: http://speakingquicktips.blogspot.com

Looky here!

Fellow speaker,

TED speech event creator Chris Anderson suggests you start strong. Capture your audience's attention right at the very beginning of your speech by doing/saying something that gets you noticed.

Strongly,

Tim Wilson
Professional Speech Coach
Free speaking tips at: http://speakingquicktips.blogspot.com

All the world needs staging

Fellow speaker,

TED speech event creator Chris Anderson suggests you stage the set where you are going to speak. Set up the stage so all the props you need are close by and convenient. Move around objects on the stage as needed so your speech goes smoothly.

Staging,

Tim Wilson
Professional Speech Coach
Free speaking tips at: http://speakingquicktips.blogspot.com

Idea first

Fellow speaker,

TED speech event creator Chris Anderson suggests you start your speech out with an "idea worth spreading". Talk about something that is important, powerful, and relevant to you and to those around you.

Relevantly,

Tim Wilson
Professional Speech Coach
Free speaking tips at: http://speakingquicktips.blogspot.com

Keep calm...

Fellow speaker,

When you're narrating part of your story, keep it unemotional. Only put in emotion when you are giving a line of dialogue that someone or something was saying or thinking.

Unemotionally,

Tim Wilson
Professional Speech Coach
Free speaking tips at: http://speakingquicktips.blogspot.com

Audience scene

Fellow speaker,

 World Champion Speaker Craig Valentine suggests you find a way to put the audience into your story scene. For example, "If you had been with me that day, you would have seen..."

Scenically,

Tim Wilson
Professional Speech Coach
Free speaking tips at: http://speakingquicktips.blogspot.com

Changing emotionally

Fellow speaker,

World Champion Speaker Darren LaCroix suggests you show a change of emotions in your story when by making one of the emotions in your story extreme. Start out with your emotions very high. Then, later, when you learn something transformative in your story, you can have a new, calmer emotion.

Emotionally,

Tim Wilson
Professional Speech Coach
Free speaking tips at: http://speakingquicktips.blogspot.com

The struggle

Fellow speaker,

Showing the struggle in your story shows your growth throughout your story. The more the characters struggle against each other, the more each character is forced to grow and develop.

Growing,

Tim Wilson
Professional Speech Coach
Free speaking tips at: http://speakingquicktips.blogspot.com

Going negative

Fellow speaker,

When you create a speech story, instantly create conflict by showing one character being negative to the other character. For example, "Tim, you can't do that. It's not going to work." "Craig, what do you mean? I know it's going to work."

Conflicted,

Tim Wilson
Professional Speech Coach
Free speaking tips at: http://speakingquicktips.blogspot.com

Changing!

Fellow speaker,

World Champion Speaker Darren LaCroix suggests you show an emotional change in your main character. Show them behaving one way, coming to a realization, then behaving a completely different way.

Emotionally,

Tim Wilson
Professional Speech Coach
Free speaking tips at: http://speakingquicktips.blogspot.com

The angry chair

Fellow speaker,

World Champion Speaker Darren LaCroix suggests you give your most extremely emotional dialogue to inanimate objects. That way you avoid upsetting anyone or putting unflattering dialogue into any of the people in your story. For example, "And it was like the chair was yelling at me, "You're a moron!"

Angry objectively,

Tim Wilson
Professional Speech Coach
Free speaking tips at: http://speakingquicktips.blogspot.com

Conflict early and often

Fellow speaker,

The secret to good storytelling is conflict. The moment you introduce your characters, give them a conflict. Then find a way to build that conflict.

Conflicted,

Tim Wilson
Professional Speech Coach
Free speaking tips at: http://speakingquicktips.blogspot.com

Dialoguing your characters

Fellow speaker,

World Champion Speaker Craig Valentine suggests you describe the character in dialogue. For example, "Bob, you're a level-headed kind of guy, what do you think I should do?"

Describing,

Tim Wilson
Professional Speech Coach
Free speaking tips at: http://speakingquicktips.blogspot.com

Scene-crashers

Fellow speaker,

When you are creating your speech, put your audience in the scene. Find some way to deliberately include them in the story you are setting up so that they experience the story personally.

Personally,

Tim Wilson
Professional Speech Coach
Free speaking tips at: http://speakingquicktips.blogspot.com

Tease to please

Fellow speaker,

When you are creating your speech story, build in a tease, where you give a hint at what is coming up without revealing it. For example, "I learned something that day that transformed my life and took away forever my fear of public speaking."

Teasing,

Tim Wilson
Professional Speech Coach
Free speaking tips at: http://speakingquicktips.blogspot.com