Professional speaker Patricia Fripp suggests these as possible opening techniques:
- Story - use the story to transition into your point
- Little known fact - find a fact that is relatively unknown, central to your topic, and interesting
- Interesting statistic - compare the statistic to a "real-life" situation so it makes an impact on your audience (e.g., "he makes 1 million dollars a month, while it takes the average person 92 years to make a million dollars")
Technique-ical,
Tim Wilson
Professional Speech Coach
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