Craig Valentine has just published a greate article on his website in which he presents a simple 5-part formula to creating a great speech. He should know, because of course he is the 1999 world champion of public speaking.
In summary, the formula uses the acronym PARTS:
You can read the full articles and details of the formula on Craig’s website.
While this talk by David Rose is about pitching to Venture Capitalists, he also gives some great PowerPoint tips. I was very pleased to see that he agrees with many of my thoughts on PowerPoint. In particular, David presents his top five presentation tips:
All of these tips are in my free e-book. The presentation is only about 15 minutes long, but well worth watching. I was a little bemused to see that he even uses one of same slides that I use – the one of Bill Gates presenting Windows Live in 2005. David does speak at about a million words per second, so you do need to listen carefully!
If you are going to pitch your idea to anybody, he provides a great speech outline. Here is a summarized outline, but watch the presentation for his insights.
You can watch other great speeches at www.ted.com
Enjoy, and keep talking!
