Public speaking : storytelling techniques for electrifying presentations /
Akash Karia
- [Lexington, KY]: A. Karia, 2015.
- 114 p. ; 22 cm
"Featuring award-winning speeches by Lance Miller, Loghandran Krishnasamy, Ian Humphrey and Erick Rainey."
Be twice the speaker in half the time --The ultimate question / Lance Miller --How to create a spellbinding story speaking toolkit Summary #1 --Finding your Rhythm --Loghandran Krishnasamy --How to inspire and impact your audience speaking toolkit summary #2 --It's not about the knockdown / Ian Humphrey --How to turn your story into a life-changing speech speaking toolkit summary #3 --Feed the right dog / Erick Rainey --How to mesmerize your audience speaking toolkit summary #4-Wrap up.
Stories have the power to captivate listeners and ignite their imaginations. Great speakers know how to use stories to enthrall and influence their audiences. This book is the result of six years of intensive research on the art of storytelling and public speaking. Inside, you will discover how to: create an opening that instantly hooks your audience into your speech, keep your audiences captivated with a story, use the suspended story formula to ramp up the intrigue, bring your characters to life, turn your stories into mental movies for your audience, keep your audience spellbound by increasing the intensity of your conflicts, add organic humor to any presentation without resorting to jokes, make your speech memorable with the right analogies and metaphors, create a repeatable catch-phrase using "the rule of opposites", tell a story and deliver a speech that your audience will remember and talk about for years. Read less