Academy Award Winners - Preview
TJ Walker comments on the potential acceptance speeches from Oscar winners.
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Use them as frequently as possible. I know that you don’t love to give speeches and you aren’t a preacher who is going to put speaking skills to use every Sunday morning. But try not to let your speaking skills rot away from disuse. If you only play golf once every five years, how good is your golf game. However, if you play golf once every other week, at least you know, more or less, how you will do next time you are on the links. I’m not suggesting you spend every free night giving speeches at the local toastmasters club, but once every 3 or 4 weeks, you could look for some opportunity to speak out. It could be giving a toast in front of 6 friends at a birthday party. It might be asking a question at a school board meeting. Or just volunteering to say the pledge of allegiance at school convocation. Every time you speak in front of more than a person or two, it helps your body and mouth condition itself to surviving the nerves and tensions associated with giving presentations.
If you sit in a chair for a whole year without getting up once, imagine how difficult it would be to stand up and walk across the room after a year. Your legs would be wobbly and weak. It’s the same with giving presentations; if you wait a year in between presentations, you will also be wobbly and weak. You might not be an Olympic class runner now, but you can most likely walk across the room easily now because you practice walking every day. I’m not saying you have to give a presentation every single day, but the less time in between presentations—any presentations—the better.
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Honing your Skills for Consistently Great Presentations
Whether you are a CEO of a public company, an entrepreneur seeking venture capital or a street preacher, never forget that speaking is primarily about conveying positive emotions between you and your audience.
Don't try to survive every speech, try to improve every speech over the last one.
Your colleagues and competitors spent on average 12, 16, or even 20 years of daily instruction on how to write well in school, but most of them never received more than 15 minutes on how to speak well. This is an opportunity for you because it means that with only a little time and effort, you can out-shine your competitors.
Create a list of speaking goals and a timeline.
Internalize your message in your gut.
Read every book you can find on making speeches.
Constantly edit and improve your speech after every speaking engagement.
Being Called in as an Expert for an Interview
The topic of the story isn’t you, but is about broader issues affecting your industry.
The topic of the interview is not a crisis that affects you or your organization.
You are so comfortable and confident during an interview that you can think in your normal “real time” manner.
If all of the above items are not in place, you are asking for big trouble. But if you are set, then you may proceed.
In this interview format, you are freewheeling. You must be listening to every nuance of the reporter’s questions, providing great substance answers, AND you must be packaging your answers in dramatic and vivid style.
You must be thinking and speaking both substance and sound bites at the very same time. You must be a little more “out there” or run the risk of your competitors hogging more ink or airtime away from you.
You can’t say stupid things, or you will destroy your credibility.
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