Retelling an Event to Connect to your Audience

  1. If you can simply re-tell an event you experienced that is relevant to your message, you can communicate to a business audience.
  2. Re-live the event by re-telling what your colleagues said to you at that moment, what you were feeling, where you were, what your problem was, and how you solved it.
  3. If you can simply focus on accomplishing this, you can transform yourself from being dishwater dull to a toastmaster extraordinaire overnight.

General Conversation Tips

  1. Don’t waste time by saying, “As I mentioned earlier.” Just repeat whenever you want to - you don’t have to provide roadmaps to your whole conversation.
  2. Don’t exaggerate, even a little. How To Word Your Speech
  3. If you try to sound important by using big, abstract words, you won’t be quoted. The reporter will just write you off as a pompous windbag.
  4. Avoid jargon.
  5. Don’t use time wasting words and phrases like “If you will” to make yourself sound smart.
  6. Never use a reporter’s words. Always use your own words.
  7. A reporter can use an obscenity in an interview, but you can’t.
  8. A reporter can use a stereotype in a joke during an interview, but you can’t.

 

BY TJ Walker



What is Fair Game and What Is Politically Incorrect?

I have clients around the world who look to me for advice on what to say or not say in order to stay out of trouble and be good communicators. When it comes to humor, mockery and what is politically correct and incorrect, I’m afraid I don’t have any principles to offer that can stand the test of time, even if that time period were a month or a week. That’s because the standards are changing every day.

On April 23, 2007 rap music impresario Russell Simmons announced that he is going to essentially ban the use of “bitch,” “ho,” and “nigger” from records that are produced under his label. The rules about what is fair game and what isn’t are changing every day. It used to be that you were allowed to make fun of someone and even use nasty language if you could someone claim full or partial membership to the group you were mocking or attacking. This has always struck me and a lot of other people as less than intellectually honest.

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