November 6, 2007

How to kill your speech right from the start

Fellow speaker,

If you want to bomb onstage:
  • Apologize to your audience
  • Make long or slow-moving statements
  • Make obvious observations
  • Ask lots of unimportant questions
  • Tell stories not related to your topic
Pretty soon you'll have 'em snoring in the aisles!

Playing it down,

Tim