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Public Speaking: Mock Ups
To add some humor to your public speaking engagement you can make fake newspaper articles and headlines and book covers by using your computer software and printer.
To mock up a newspaper article, simply find the column function of your word proces...
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Public Speaking: Deadpan Expression
Yesterday I attended a professional public speaking meeting of the National Capital Area Speakers Association. The presenter was not funny, but got laughs from the crowd.
He seriously began speaking, . . . presented slowly, . . . and kept a low ton...
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Public Speaking: Odd Body Angles
Do you remember Steve Martin with his Walk like an Egyptian routine? The main reason it was funny was because of the strange body angles. These angles may have been fine for Egyptian dancers, but hilarious for stand up comics. I do a routine where ...
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Public Speaking: Old Humor is Good Humor
Public speaking humor is only old if your audience has heard it before and if they remember it. Most people don't remember the exact details of jokes, one-liners, and stories. This is not contradictory to the fact that one of the uses of humor is t...
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Public Speaking: Finding Humor for Specific Industries
If you are looking for stories and humor in a specific industry, you must work a little harder than you would have to find general humor. Certain professions like medicine and law have many individual books, newsletters, and articles written about ...
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Public Speaking: To Laugh or Not to Laugh... that is the Question
Some humor 'experts' say that you should not laugh at your own jokes and stories when you are speaking in public. This may work for some, but it is definitely not my style. When I'm in front of an audience, I'm having a great time. I'm there becaus...
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Public Speaking: Humor Placement
You are probably wondering how you decide where to put the humor you have so carefully selected to use in your presentation. You weren't wondering? Well, I'm going to tell you anyway.
First of all, starting with a funny story or joke is expected an...
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Public Speaking: Rule of Three
One of the most pervasive principles in the construction of humorous situations is the Rule of Three. You will see it used over and over because it is simple. It is powerful and it works (see I just used it there in a non-funny situation). Most of ...
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Public Speaking: Humor Delivery Tips
(ignore these and you can start passing out pillows and blankets)
* Don't signal your punch line. If the humor in your punch line depends upon the words ruptured camel, don't say the following: Did you hear the one about the ruptured camel?
* ...
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Public Speaking: How to Deliver a Punch Line
The punch line gets its name from the delivery technique used. You must punch the line out a little harder and with a slightly different voice than the rest of the joke. Lean into the microphone and say it louder and more clearly than you said the ...
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Public Speaking: How to Make a Point with Humor
One of the old saws of public speaking says that you should 'Tell em what you're gonna tell 'em. Tell 'em. Then tell 'em what you told 'em.' When you want to make a point during your presentation, you can use a similar formula. You tell 'em the poi...
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Public Speaking: Get Them In Fun
Sigmund Freud wrote:
"The most favorable condition for comic pleasure is a generally happy disposition in which one is in the mood for laughter. In happy toxic states almost everything seems comic. We laugh at the expectation of laughing, at the ap...
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Public Speaking: Why Use Humor?
Why should I bother using humor in my public speaking? Can't I just deliver my information and sit down? You sure can and that's what most people do. The problem is that most people are not effective public speakers. They are nighty nite, snooze in...
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Public Speaking: Heirloom Handouts
If you want your public speaking handout material to be kept forever, you must give each audience member a reason to keep it. I do this by strategically adding important reference material to EACH PAGE of the speaking handout. This material was pic...
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Public Speaking: Say it with Flowers
A public speaking friend of mine had a deal with a local flower shop. When he had a program he would buy up all the fresh flowers that the flower shop could not sell. He got them for a really cheap price. The flowers were destined for the dumpster ...
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Public Speaking: Columbo Technique
Do you remember the soft-spoken, cigar smoking detective on the hit TV series 'Columbo'? Most people do because the show is still in reruns all over the world and once in a while a new episode comes out. One of Detective Columbo's trademarks is tha...
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Public Speaking: How to Close a Speech
One of the worst mistakes you can make as a public speaker is talking too long. Not only will you send some folks to never, never land, you will make some of them downright mad. It doesn't matter if your entire speech was brilliant and the audience...
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Public Speaking: Transitions
Most public speaking books will tell you to be a polished speaker you have to tie all your information together so it flows smoothly. You must lead your audience and alert them that slightly different, but related information is coming. This is cal...
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Public Speaking: Attention Gaining Devices
Attention spans are short. Here is the 'Wake em Up' way to keep the audience with you. After you have created your talk, go through it and make sure that every 2-4 minutes you use some kind of attention gaining device.
You could increase your voice...
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Public Speaking: The Centerpiece Area
Whenever you are public speaking at an event where food is being served at round tables, you can use the centerpiece area as part of your program. I recently saw Dr. Shirley Garrett do this at large public speaking engagement. She was using jugglin...
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Public Speaking: Banquet/Luncheon Tips
I have done many public speaking engagements in settings where meals were part of the program. You may want to politely remind the program coordinator to consider some of the following points:
ROOM SET-UP
(Many of these tips work whether food is b...
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Public Speaking: Frequency Check
It is pretty common to have multiple wireless microphones going during the same public speaking engagement. The AV crew that sets everything up usually makes sure that they are all on different frequencies so that no cross over occurs. You should s...
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Public Speaking: Dueling Flip Charts
Here is a very interesting way to use flip charts when public speaking. Put one on both sides of the stage and pop back and forth between them. You can have an audience member volunteer at each flip chart helping you record input from other audienc...
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Public Speaking: Cool Color Commentary
Flip Chart Color
* Black, blue and green inks have the greatest visibility.
* Blue is the most pleasing color to look at with red coming in second (note: pleasing to look at and visibility are not the same)
* Do not do the whole chart in red ink.
*...
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Public Speaking: Improvise Your Flipchart
Oops! I broke my own rules and did not follow a checklist on my last public speaking engagement. It was two minutes until start time and I realized there was no flipchart in the room. Oh oh!. Better think fast. I was not using an overhead projector...
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