Concluding your Speech

  1. The second strongest impression you have on any audience is the final impression, the last thing you say and do in front of them.
  2. The first requirement of a great closing is that it be INTERESTING.
  3. The second requirement is that you leave your audience thinking about something they have learned.
  4. And the final requirement is that you ask people to do something and that they feel motivated to actually do it.
  5. Once you do all of those things, then stop, smile and don’t say a word. Not one “Thank you.” Not one “You’ve been a great audience.” Just keep silent, smile and look confident. Then your audience will know you are finished and they will likely start clapping.

How To Prepare For A Television Interview

  1. Find out as much as possible about other guests who will be appearing with you.
  2. After you've learned the basics, develop your own style.
  3. Ask yourself why you have been asked to appear on a TV talk show.
  4. Pump the talk show producer for as much info on how the issues will be presented, what other guests will be appearing, and what position you are expected to fill.
  5. Don't take a position on an issue just because a producer says that's what the show is looking for. 735. Know the format of any show you go on.
  6. Don’t “think” on TV. Instead, focus on delivering your message that was thought out earlier.

BY TJ Walker



A Silk Purse

If someone came up to me with the following proposal in 2001, I would have laughed them out of the room:

“Hey TJ, give me a million dollars and let’s make a movie. The movie will be entirely made from a lecture by Al Gore. And it will be a PowerPoint lecture on global warming. We’ll use lots of numbers, statistics and scientific data. It will be great; we’ll make $50 million and we’ll be the toast of Hollywood.”

“Ha! Ha! Ha!” I would have said.

But I would have been wrong. “An Inconvenient Truth” the Al Gore Documentary has done all of these things.

How? Especially considering most people didn’t like listening to Al on their living room TV for even 90 seconds back in 2000. Now he captivates them for 90 minutes?

For starters, the producers and Gore made sure they used great PowerPoint images. Throughout the entire 90 minutes, you see scarcely a slide or two with more than one word of text on it. Gore uses photos, images and simple graphs through the movie.

The key word is Simple. In my own world of presentation training, the biggest inconvenient truth I know is that audiences don’t follow or remember more than one idea graphically represented at a time. Gore and Company used a lot of graphs, but they never got greedy. They never tried to show charts with numerous variables all on display at one.

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