Great public speaking tips from Paul’s Blog. My personal favorites?
Use big words. It helps you impress and connect with your audience. (The opening speaker at a recent conference I attended used the words exogenous and endogenous in the first 60 seconds.)
Go over time. Talk until you get through all your material or until you feel in your gut like you’ve made your point. Anything over 20 minutes is great. People always complain about things being too short. No-one has ever complained about presentations being too long. After all, you’ve got the stage – take advantage of that.
What’s obvious: saying something is different than writing something. What’s less obvious: some information is better suited to being spoken, rather than read. Electronic presentation programs, and the like, has forever contaminated this distinction – condemning a generation of innocent people to death by PowerPoint.
Do your part, end the senseless slaughter.
