Akash Karia - Public Speaking: Storytelling Techniques for Electrifying Presentations

Public Speaking:
Storytelling for Electrifying Presentation

by AKASH KARIA
best-selling author of
How to Deliver the Perfect TED Talk
and
Speak Like a Winner

2013 by Akash Karia

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Akash Karia is an award-winning speaker and communication skills trainer who has been ranked as one of the Top Ten speakers in Asia Pacific. He is the bestselling author of Speak Like a Winner and How to Deliver the Perfect TED Talk .

FEATURING SPEECHES BY

Loghandran Krishnasamy is a corporate financial training consultant, actor and stand-up comedian who was 1st Runner-Up in the 2008 World Championship of Public Speaking.

Ian Humphrey is a dynamic youth speaker who placed as one of the Top 9 speakers in the world out of 30,000 competitors in the 2010 World Championship of Public Speaking.

Erick Rainey is an internationally renowned public speaker, twice crowned Speech Making Champion of the UK and Ireland. He was also twice crowned 2nd Runner-Up at the World Championship of Public Speaking.

In this book, Akash will reveal to you the public speaking techniques he and the other award-winning speakers in this book use to keep their audiences engaged, excited and entertained.

This book contains four world-class speeches by four of the best speakers in the world. The book will systematically analyze each speech so that you too can write and deliver world-class speeches.

By studying the speeches in this book, you will learn how to add humor to your speeches, bring your characters to life, create spellbinding stories and be a dynamic speaker who others line up to see.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER ONE
How to be Twice the Speaker in Half the Time

CHAPTER TWO
The Ultimate Question by Lance Miller

CHAPTER THREE
How to Create a Spellbinding Story

CHAPTER FOUR
Finding Your Rhythm by Loghandran Krishnasamy

CHAPTER FIVE
How to Impact and Inspire Your Audience

CHAPTER SIX
Its Not About the Knockdown by Ian Humphrey

CHAPTER SEVEN
How to Turn Your Story into a Life-Changing Speech

CHAPTER EIGHT
Feed the Right Dog by Erick Rainey

CHAPTER NINE
How to Keep Your Audience Hooked Onto Your Every Word

CHAPTER TEN
Wrap Up

Chapter One

HOW TO BE TWICE THE SPEAKER IN HALF THE TIME

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Have you ever seen a great speaker?

Have you ever seen a boring one?

Have you ever been a boring speaker?

What makes the difference between a great speaker and boring one?

To answer this question, I spent the last four years studying and evaluating thousands of speakers - some great ones, and others who (to put it mildly) needed a lot of help. I read over two hundred books on the art of public speaking, storytelling and screenwriting, attended countless seminars on the subject and devoured every piece of information I could get on the art of presenting. I was looking for a system which would help anyone become a powerfully persuasive speaker.

What I found is that while there is no system that will guarantee the success of your presentation, there are little-known techniques that are used by some of the worlds best speakers to help win audiences over to their way of thinking.

In this book, I will reveal to you the public speaking and storytelling techniques used by four of the best speakers in the world. More specifically, you will learn how to:

• Create an opening that instantly hooks your audience into your speech
• Keep your audience on the edge of their seats with a spellbinding story
• Use the suspended story to keep your audience intrigued
• Bring your characters to life
• Turn your stories into mental movies for your audience
• Keep ratcheting up the suspense by increasing the intensity of your conflicts
• Create and deliver a speech your audience will remember and talk about for years
• Add organic humour to your speeches without resorting to jokes
• Customize your speech (and your speech) for your audience
• Use anchors to make your points memorable
• Use tough-watch logic to inspire your audience
• Create a memorable and repeatable catch-phrase using the rule of opposites
• Create analogies and metaphors to make your message memorable
• Add a you-focused check-in to relate with your audience
• Give your audience dialogue to build rapport with them
• Use Vocal variety to spice up your speech
• Create smooth transitions to ensure your speech flows logically
• Add credibility to your speech
• Take an element out of your speech and put it into your audiences lives
• Creatively summarize your main points
• End your speech in a powerful and persuasive way

This book is unlike most books on the subjects of public speaking and storytelling. While most books simply teach you the techniques, this book also contains short world-class speeches for you to study and evaluate. Each speech is followed by a detailed line-by-line analysis of the speech so that you can see the public speaking techniques in action. While the four winning speeches in this book are short, inspirational speeches, the techniques in the book can be applied to create powerful business presentations, keynotes or workshops. When you apply the techniques in this book, you will become twice the speaker in half the time.

If youre ready to become a powerfully persuasive speaker who owns the stage, then lets get started...

Chapter Two

THE ULTIMATE QUESTION

Speech by Lance Miller

2005 World Champion of Public Speaking

http://www.LanceMillerSpeaks.com

The success of your presentation will be judged not by the knowledge you send but by what the listener receives.

Lily Walters

To get maximum value from this speech, I encourage you to watch Lances speech. Click here to watch Lance live in action: http://bit.ly/Yz7N7T

Next, read the speech transcript as it is reprinted below. As you read the speech, pay attention to the techniques Lance uses to keep his audience engaged. Jot down your observations on a piece of paper.

Finally, read my analysis of the speech and apply the techniques to your next speech so that you too can keep your audiences mesmerized by your speeches.

Enjoy the transcript of Lances 2005 world-championship winning speech below: