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said, ' How's everybody this morning? '" Are you so concerned with coming across as intelligent that you are drowning your audience in a sea of statistics, charts, graphs, numbers, letters, symbols, fractions, decimals, percentages and, just for good measure, lots of jargon? In my recent guest post on Jeremy Jacobs ' blog, my first point about public speaking fear was that you don't have to be friends with everyone. People in the audience may or may not like you, and how people feel is just something that it's pretty impossible to control.

Give a "shocking statistic" I find the shocking statistic to be the most difficult to pull off effectively, because it's hard to come up with statistics that can really move your audience. People are jaded, and a statistic like, "One in six 10th graders smokes pot" will just make their eyes glaze over. Other statistics used in the TV and print campaign include, When we talk about strong openings for a presentation, we are usually referring to the following methods to get the audience emotionally or physically involved with your presentation right from the beginning: 1.

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first learned this lesson when..." A startling statistic: "Did you know that if you had spent a million dollars a day, every day, since Jesus was born, you would not have spent a trillion dollars. August 2008). August 2008). 15 Tips for Webinars: How to Add Impact When You Present Online By Patricia Fripp, CSP, CPAE July 7, 2009 Whenever you open your mouth, whether youre talking to one person or a thousand, you usually want to get a specific message across. How do you do that best when you are communicating through a webinar?

"Now what's that ridiculous statistic about the average punter's fear of public speaking? Doubt it. People are speaking publicly on their mobile phones around us all the time. They say they are petrified to get up in front of a group of people and make a speech, but apparently they experience no such nerves when it comes to having a good old pontificate in a public place." ~ Julie Zemiro ...Tags:

Once again, I find this statistic being used in a way that completely distorts its original intent. I came across an article the other day that stated, "Statistics show that influence on an audience is determined as follows: 7 percent by what we SAY; 38 percent by how we SPEAK; and 55 percent by how we LOOK AND BEHAVE." People, this statistic is being misinterpreted all over town. If you missed my article in August about the "7-38-55" rule of communication, please take a look . The article then went on to apply this to what a speaker wears ; that is, if 55 percent of

Tea's presentation was effective at the World Tea Expo was his use of statistics, stories, analogies and examples. Overall, it was a colorful and engaging presentation: statistics and data balanced by stories, analogies and examples to bring life to the numbers and charts. (If One reason Dr. He started out by telling us that Americans drink "115,000 cups of coffee every 15 seconds of every minute of every day."

Follow the overview with a deeper layer.   Use the skeleton of the overview, but add supporting explanations, examples, flow charts, or statistics, as needed.   In a document, this layer follows the executive summary. Use this strategy to shape your next message.   You’ll engage the executives, technical specialists, and the folks in between. © 2008 by Bonnie Budzowski, InCredible Messages, LP Have you ever had the task of engaging people with differing needs in the same message?   Do you wonder how to address executives and technical specialists with the same message?   Here’s a strategy you can count on.

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