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Great Movie Speeches in 2 minutes
Movie speeches are a great opportunity see how much impact you can have in a short space of time. I watched ‘Fair Game’ last night (with Sean Penn and Naomi Watts) which ended with a powerful movie speech. Powerful and short. In fact, the best movie speeches are only about 100 seconds. (The Gettysburg Address [...]
How to start a speech strongly
The most important thing when starting a speech or presentation is to make it clear to the audience where you are taking them. Think about a typical person in your audience. Their mind is full of to-do lists and daydreams; and you walk on stage. They’ve sat through boring presentations in the past and wonder if [...]
Twice the impact when you speak – half the effort
A Speech outline creates twice the impact with half the effort – for 3 reasons: 1. You think more clearly about your ideas When you jump straight into writing a script or creating slides, you don’t have a chance for big picture thinking. You are too close to the information to see it objectively. [...]
The lost art of the Speech Outline – don’t skip this step!
The groundbreaking book of 1919, ‘An Outline of History’ (by H.G Wells) was called a ‘summary of history’ and sometimes a ‘flow of history’. This is a good way to think about your speech outline – it is a summary and shows the flow of your presentation. When preparing for important communication, most people miss the [...]
