Most of you were probably not members of the club when Susan Trivers used to hang out here. Here’s a recent post she sent that might contain something of interest for you.
Create Magic in a Minute
Trivers Communications Group
Vol 5 Issue 4
November 2007
Dear Mike,
Imagine this: you put the title and two short highlights of each blog post on a sticky note or index card. Once you have captured all the posts on a particular topic this way, you lay them on your desk or stick them to the wall. It’s easy to arrange and re-arrange them, and as you talk through the ideas, you hear yourself creating your presentation. You’ll hear where there’s excitement and where there are gaps. You’ll hear where you have passion and where you’re in danger of being boring. You can hear yourself drive to the call-to-action–or not–and make adjustments accordingly.
This whole process could take you just one hour. When have you ever crafted the content for your speech in just one hour?
Posting on my blog http://www.greatspeakingcoach.com has shown me that blogs are the ultimate tool to become COOL – Creative, Original, Outsized & Liberated.
Short blog posts attract readers when you express your perspective on a business topic creatively. Content developed free from the constraints of templates, bullet points or ‘corporate-speak’ open your mind to the original and outsized ideas buzzing just beneath the surface. Blogging by definition liberates you from being strangled by ‘the way we always do things.’
Competing demands on your time necessitate re-purposing material. Blogging is a great facilitator of repurposing. You let your fingers do the talking in your blog, then you take your blog posts and incorporate your ideas, your images and your calls-to-action into a presentation.
This method allows you to get away from the sameness and dullness of slides as well. When you hear yourself talk through the ideas you’ve jotted on sticky notes or index cards, you are hearing your real voice. No slide deck, no matter how perfect, clever or thoughtful, makes the impact that you will make as a passionate speaker talking to the audience from your inner knowledge.
Did you notice that I opened this newsletter with a springboard story? Learn more about the 8 types of stories and why you need them by clicking here http://www.susantrivers.com/services_storytelling.php
You can request a download of my Great Speaker’s Guide to Business Storytelling. The 7- page Guide is complimentary and will get you started crafting stories in a few minutes.
Dedicated your speaking success,
Susan
aka Great Speaking Coach
