Public Speaking: How To Make An Audience Love You In 90 Seconds

This is Charlie from Charisma on Command and today I'm going to be giving you some presentation

tips and tricks. Now, the guide that we are working off of today is actually the Toastmasters

2015 World Champion of Public Speaking. This does, though, apply to a presentation that

you would give in any setting, whether it's in work, or elsewhere, because when you stand

in front of a group of people, whether you're talking about macroeconomics, or the forecasted

revenue, or you're telling a story, like this guy, you must captivate their attention first.

And that's one of the things that we're going to focus on today. So let's get started.

What?

So, this is so huge. How does he start off this speech? There are two big things going

on here. One, he starts with a prop, and sometimes I can feel hokey and you're like, "Well, how

do I do that in a business setting?" The truth is, anything that is a physical object that people do not

understand why you're doing it, whether you're holding some sort of piece of fruit as a metaphor,

I've seen people do that, whatever it is, if you have a physical object, that helps

to capture people's attention, and you're going to see that this is the most critical

thing at the start of a speech. He does it in multiple ways, because when you get up

there and start to speak in front of people, you have about 10 seconds to capture their

attention and captivate them before they tune out completely, so you must do something interesting.

Secondly, impeccable timing. This guy is so deliberate, so slow, he commands the stage.

That's just something to look out for for the rest of this video.

All of you think smoking kills?

So, another quick thing, and I'm going to play this back, again, just so you can see

it altogether. You need to get audience interaction absolutely within the first minute. You see

a lot of speakers do this. It can feel hackneyed, but they ask people that, you know, "Show

a hand, whose seen this before?" "Show a hand, who's heard of something." You must get the audience moving

and speaking and responding to you if you want them to listen and to engage with what

you are saying. He does it very cleverly by asking a provocative question. So, I'm just

going to go back and play that all over again so we can see it together.

What?

All of you think smoking kills?

So, now, they're interested, and hooked, and he can begin his-- he can begin to get into it.

Let me tell you something. Do you know that there are many people dying from diabetes

as three times as many people dying from smoking? Yet, if I pulled a Snicker bar, nobody will say anything.

Again, two more great examples. He's dedicating, basically, the first minute of his speech

to engaging with the audience, and he does that a number of ways we've covered, but,

also, humor. He makes sure that there are jokes in that first minute. So he's got another

belly laugh here, and then, that provocative question that he's asking you, "You think

this? Well, guess what?" And, now, he's going to reveal something else.

Do you know that the leading cause of lung cancer is not actually a cigarette.

Prop again, captivates attention