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Great Speaking Vol. 1 Number 19
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Speaker trip to Morocco and Thailand (see below)
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If you ever get two copies, please excuse me. My brain had a virus.
I'll do my best to remove the duplicate. Thanks, Tom
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GREAT SPEAKING
Circulation 8086
Vol. 1 Number 19 - October 12, 1999
Publisher: Tom Antion tomAntion@aol.com
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IN THIS ISSUE
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1. Quick Presentation Skills Tip
2. Advanced Presentation Skills Article
(Beginners should read this too)
3. Humor Technique Series
4. Speaker Marketing Tip
5. Speaker Humor
6. Websites for Speakers
7. Tech Tip with Mike Rounds
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1. Quick Presentation Skills Tip
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START LOW by Tom Antion
Unless you are doing some type of surprise or big rah rah opening,
consciously start out with a slightly lower than normal voice inflection.
In the excitement or nervousness that many of us feel at the beginning of
a presentation, it is easy to go the other way and start out with a voice
inflection that is too high. The problem with this is that if you are already
at a high range when you start, you have nowhere to go as you attempt to
crescendo the audience to a big peak of excitement at the end of your program.
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2. Advanced Presentation Skills Article
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GET EM ON STAGE Part I by Tom Antion
My Wake em Up system is based on attention gaining devices. Here is
one that works ever time: Virtually every presentation I do, I find some excuse
to get someone on stage with me. When an audience member is on stage, the
rest of the audience is glued to the action for the following reasons: 1. They
want to see what is going to happen to one of their own. 2. They are priming
themselves to be up there. 3. They are worrying to death that they may be asked
to be up there. Reasons 1 and 2 are good and reason 3 is not so good.
For 1 and 2 the mindset of the observing audience member is that, "I want to
watch to see what my colleague or other audience member will do when they
are on stage. No matter how exciting you are as a presenter, you can not compete
with the excitement generated by someone who is on stage who is not "supposed"
to be on stage. The other mindset is, "I BETTER watch what is going on in case I
am asked to go up there." This mindset is good too, because it forces the audience
member to actually think about the point you are trying to make.
For number 3, you want to keep shy or sensitive audience members from withdrawing
from your program altogether because of the fear that they may be asked to stand up
in front of everyone. This chance of withdrawal is easily eliminated by the following
statement: "In a moment I'm going to ask for some / a volunteer to come on stage with
me. Don*t worry. No one will have to come up if they don*t want to." If you have a high
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In Part II we will take a look at what things you can do with them once you get them on stage.
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3. HUMOR TECHNIQUE
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DEADPAN by Tom Antion
Yesterday I attended a meeting of the National Capital Area Speakers Association.
The presenter was not funny, but got laughs from the crowd. He seriously began his
presentation, presented slowly, and kept a low tone of voice. I thought to myself, "this is
going to be a long day." Then, without cracking a smile, a totally out of character line
came out of his mouth. He was going over his material which talked about thinkers, doers
etc, and said, "A thinker is a person who is thinking about something." The whole room
cracked up. This is called "deadpan" expression.
Deadpan expression is the technique of combining a serious demeanor with a funny line.
The line typically gets a bigger laugh than the same line delivered with a lighthearted
expression or smile. The contrast and surprise is what stimulates the laughter. The most
recent and famous example of this is the comedian Steven Wright who NEVER breaks
character to smile. He says lines like, "My dog is confused. I named him STAY. . . .Then
I say come STAY." A more animated and cartoonish version of this is Rodney Dangerfield
who pretends to be serious about his goofy life. He says, "I am an earth sign and my wife is a
water sign . . . .Together we make mud." hahahaha If it fits your character, try a little deadpan.
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=> Hold pre-program TeleSeminars to gain input from selected audience members and
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5. SPEAKER HUMOR
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=> Blessed are those who have nothing to say and cannot be persuaded to say it
. . . .James Lowell
=> Some people can talk for hours on a subject. I don*t even need a subject.
=> An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less . . .Nicholas Butler
=> A fool and his money are soon partying.
=> Never knock on Death*s door: . . . Ring the doorbell and run (he hates that).
=> In New York there are two kinds of pedestrians. . .the quick and the dead.
=> A woman phoned me the other day and said ...."Come on over, there is nobody
home." I went over. . . . Nobody was home. -- Rodney Dangerfield
=> I was such an ugly kid..when I played in the sandbox the cat kept covering me up.
-- Rodney Dangerfield
=> When it rains, why don*t sheep shrink?
=> Do radioactive cats have 18 half-lives?
=> What is the speed of dark?
=> Everyone has a photographic memory. . . . Some just don*t have film.
=> I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.
=> I feel like I am diagonally parked, in a parallel universe.
=> Bumpersticker: "Honk if you love peace and quiet."
=> Bumpersticker: "Pardon my driving, I am reloading."
=> Despite the cost of living, have you noticed how it remains so popular?
=> Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently talented fool.
=> If a parsley farmer is sued, can they garnish his wages?
=> A day without sunshine is like, . . . night.
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6. USEFUL WEBSITES
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http://www.greatvoice.com Awesome site for speaker voice improvement resources.
http://www.permacharge.com/ Reader Neil Sinclair recommends "Wall Write"
. . . electrostatically charged sheets in roll form that can be simply placed on almost
any wall surface, and stay there. No blue tack, Sellotape, pins or backs of audience
shirts! (this is a reference to "Improvise your Flipchart" article Volume 1 Number 18)
Neil says, "Since Wall Write is plastic, any whiteboard markers work on it and it can
be erased. I have found Wall Write great to work with and easy to transport."
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7. TECH TIP WITH MIKE ROUNDS
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