Craig Valentine’s keynote
Why did you laugh?
Failure is funny if it isn’t happening to you
Never stop asking questions
Keep them Laughing
- share your failure, flaws, frustrations and firsts
- uncover (don’t add) humor to your speech – stories, characters and dialog
- FDR – failure, dialog and reactions ( the look before and after the line)
Keep them Reflecting
- you’re always too something to someone (too serious, too British, too young etc.)
- if you’re always too something to someone, be too good for it to matter
- get them to reflect
- get them to write down what they’re going to do with what you say
- discuss and debrief – turn to your neighbor
Keep them Moving
- run an exercise
– Craig had us pair up, and one person spoke for 90 seconds straight while the other was not allowed to say a word. Not as easy as it sounds. I learned that my life story only takes 64 seconds.
- discuss and debrief
-SOFTEN
- Smile (when appropriate)
- Open (behind a lectern is closed)
- Forward
- Territory (don’t favor one side of the audience)
- Eye contact
- Nod
Keep them Speaking
- encourage them to speak
- “if I say it, they can doubt me. If they say it, it’s true.”
- speak to one but look to all – “have you ever…” instead of “how many of you…”
- use the hallway test. Would you ask one person, “how many of you…?”
- bring someone up on stage
- repeat after me
Keep them Changing
- don’t change everything at once, make small changes – “change small and change often”
- too many speakers try to get across too much information in too little time
- when you squeeze information in, you squeeze your audience out
- keep the modes of learning changing throughout your presentations
Craig wrapped up reminding us not t get stuck on get set! Too many people get ready, they get set, but they never go.
“Don’t live your life on get set”
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