Fellow speaker,
World Champion Speaker Craig Valentine says the goal of the speaker is to get the audience to reflect on the speech and suggests a three step process:
- Object out of your speech - take an object out of your speech that you want to talk to the audience about (e.g., if your speech has a scale in it, focus on the scale; if you use a story about being on stage, focus on the stage)
- Ask the audience about the object (e.g, "What's your scale?", "What stage are you stepping on at least 1000 times?")
- Reason for audience to embrace the object - give the audience a reason to start using the object in their lives (e.g., if you want to know how well you are doing, you need to use a scale; if you want to get better at something, you need to step on your mental stage and rehearse it in your mind)
Oaring,
Tim
