Leave your suggestions in the comments and if you have a reference source, include that as well! Do you have any favorite quotations about women and public speaking --by men or women? Here's one of mine: History has many themes. One of them is that women should be quiet. (Kathleen

so harmony refers to form but it also refers refers to an internal feeling or approach to art and to life. it's not about me, it's about them (or "us"). (7) Remain humble and modest. Many Many of us mistakenly feel that strong confidence cannot exist alongside If there is one principle that reveals the essence of the Zen aesthetic found in Japanese traditional art and design — and life in general — it is harmony. The kanji that has been used by Japan for the past 1300 years or so to represent this concept is ? (wa).

and "Why does it matter (to me/us)?" She references the screen often but only to illustrate her point. People often ask if technical or science-related presentations can be as compelling as presentations covering other less technical topics. Now, not every presentation has earth-shattering, Nobel-Prize winning significance, but I assume if you are talking about your research or current issues in your field, etc.

If his goal was to get us talking, it worked. Watch the presentation below or on the TED website. I love Shai's reference to JFK's famous and "crazy" line (highlighted in Made to Stick as well): "...put This TED presentation by Shai Agassi at TED in February was not one filled with tears or laughter or amazing visuals, but it was my personal favorite. This talk was informative, motivating, and inspiring.

My first observation was that he refers to his audience as users, PCs, developers, and beta-testers. Apple campaign reference Ballmer’s references to himself And so for the billion people who use Windows, for the perhaps as many as 300 million people who may buy a PC during the course of the next 12 months, we want Matt Lauer said that the launch of Windows 7 was the most important launch Microsoft had done in ten years. If that’s true, why’d it suck so much?

Refer to a shocking statistic She had a number of figures written up on the whiteboard and then told us what they represented. I get frustrated at presentation advice which says you have to do something clever or dramatic at the beginning of a presentation to grab your audience’s attention. That’s for three reasons:

If you don’t do this, your attempts at audience participation will end up in chaos, with people asking you at various times “What did you want us to do now?” Tie the answers you get into what you’re going to be talking about next, and refer back to audience contributions through the rest of your presentation. Yesterday I had a skype conversation with Twitter follower Todd (@TJList) on how to include audience participation in a presentation. He’s presenting on getting through the economic downturn to an audience of small business owners.

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It must contain some reference to emotion , because emotion is more engaging and memorable than intellectual information. Most of us probably think of an elevator speech as an afterthought that sits on top of all the marketing stuff we have already done. Engage your listeners so effectively that they will ride with you to the top floor and accompany you all the way to your office enthralled by what you have to say. I