Tips:
"The keynote,
luncheon, after-dinner speech is more about show business than it is about
teaching. Save the teaching process for seminars and workshops."
"Are
great speakers informers . . . or performers? Probably a little of both, but
Bill Gove believed that speakers are primarily performers. Bill used to say
that a high school kid can stand up and deliver information, but performing an
entertaining speech seeded with bits and pieces of wisdom was a completely
different skill level."
"Remember that effective speaking is more of a
subtraction process than an additive process. It’s more about subtracting
the things that are getting in our way of connecting with the audience. Things
like busy hands, excessive movement, or a monotone voice."
"Bill Gove
used to say that the enemy of the speaker is sameness. In other words,
it’s ok to smile, but not all of the time. It’s ok to frown, but not
all of the time. It’s ok to be loud, but not all the time. It’s ok to
whisper, but not all the time. It’s ok to put your hands in your pockets,
but not all the time. It’s ok to do almost anything on the platform that
doesn’t distract the audience, as long as you don’t do it all of the
time. The greatest enemy of the speaker is sameness."
"Remember that
every speech has a timeline. The goal of effective speech writing is to get as
many payoffs as possible within the shortest timeline."
"There are
three grades of speech material: Fair, good, and great. The fair material is
what connects the pieces of the story together and makes it coherent. The good
material grabs the attention of the audience. The great material creates the
payoff. These are the only three grades of material that should be left in your
speech after the final draft is written. Everything else should be edited out
of your speech."
"The skills utilized in seminars and workshops are
derived mostly from the teaching discipline. The skills used in the keynote,
luncheon, after-dinner speech are derived mostly from show business."
"The use of dialects, props, and magic tricks can add excitement to any speech,
seminar or workshop."
"Bill Gove developed the vignette system in the
1940's, which is used by most professional speakers today. A vignette is an
example in story form."
"Bill Gove created and popularized the
conversational style of professional speaking. He created intimacy with the
audience by speaking in listener friendly, conversational tones."
"Always move with purpose. Moving too much distracts the audience and diverts
their attention away from your message."
"Preparation is the key to
speaking success. Rehearse, rehearse, and rehearse. Bill Gove used to say,
“I ain’t scared, because I’m prepared."
"Professional
preparation will help you handle distractions that occur in the audience.
Don’t draw extra attention to the distraction. If possible, keep speaking
and ignore it. Otherwise you divert the audience’s attention away from you
and your message."
"Take the audience behind the scenes of what
you’re saying in your speech, and help them experience what you are
feeling. Make them feel like insiders."
“Use the fraternity house
technique to add fun and excitement to your delivery style. Remember that
people love to be entertained.”
"Remember that a speech is more of
a dialogue than a monologue. The audience is speaking back to us nonverbally
through their own self-talk. Keep this in mind and pace your speech
accordingly. Be sure they have time to respond to what you’re
saying."
Quotes:
“In an age in which the world prides itself on speed and efficiency in
human communication it is absurd that we should not have been more successful
in this field.”
Henry Ford II
“Mix your
knowledge and imagination and apply both.”
Clarence
Birdseye
“The most important element in our personnel policy
is the degree to which we are able to get over to our people that we have faith
in them and are more interested in them than someone else is.”
David Packard
“I hold that if anything in the business is
wrong, the fault is squarely with management.”
Harvey
Firestone
“We learned from everyone else’s book and added
a few pages of our own.”
Sam Walton
“With
every advance made by man there is always a leader and then come the millions
of the multitude that follow.”
Andrew Carnegie
"The
hidden secret of world-class success is that programming creates beliefs;
beliefs direct behaviour; and behaviour manifests results. The middle-class is
imprisoned by a belief system created by fellow members of the middle class. If
you sincerely wish to break the bonds of mediocrity, find out what people
getting world-class results believe and program yourself to believe the exact
same things.”
Steve Siebold, CSP, author, 177 Mental
Toughness Secrets of the World Class
“Those who are
enlightened are intensely involved with the world within. They realize that the
world within creates the world without. Your thoughts, feelings and visualized
imagery are the organizing principles of your experience.
The world
within is the only creative power. Everything you find in your world of
expression has been created by you in the inner world of your mind, whether
consciously or unconsciously.”
Joseph Murphy, Ph.D.
“We have to formulate what we want, be so concentrated on it, so
focused on it, and so aware of it that we lose track of ourselves, we lose
track of time, we lose track of our identity. The moment we become so involved
in the experience that we lose track of time, it is the only picture
that’s real.
Everybody’s had the experience of making up
their mind that they wanted something. That’s Quantum Physics in action.
That’s manifesting reality.”
Dr. Joseph Dispenza, from
the documentary, What The Bleep Do We Know
“The necessity
for good communication in a big company like ours (Wal-Mart) is so vital it
can’t be overstated. What good is figuring out a better way to sell beach
towels if you aren’t going to tell everybody in your company about
it?”
Sam Walton, Founder, Wal-Mart
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