Video Link Below

https://app.frame.io/presentations/7e65b3ca-b531-4727-8d11-e1cfb50a9bc3

What’s working

Think you can go along way with your speaking, in very good place and the audience likes you as do your team, as shown in response to your videos. Excellent rapport, great job.

Lovely use of humour

Quick responses to audience

GREAT when you smile and laugh! 2.09 e.g

Loved your why, as you share the stories more, they’ll become refined (e.g the car one), great use of images etc.Image / analogy and personal touches important. Cricket, car, etc. great stuff.

Nice clarity, emphasis, range in tone, passion, use of hand gestures etc. You’re vocal technique is in a very good place.

Builds going forward

Presentation Structure:

Hook your audience from the off (you did throw in a few jokes)

Strong beginning + ending - people remember the opening and the ending of a speech/ presentation, by making it memorable it will leave a lasting impression.

Bring icebreaker/ audience engagement in earlier… (unless it’s a ted talk)…(q and a started at 38mins, 47 mins making notes about questions). Verbal tools can help you with this (I can share these with you)

Ted talks - a key large message can be delivered powerfully in 15-20 mins.

Book on brain science (Brain Rules: John Medina) : People work best in 7-10 min learning chunks and then need variation, different stimulation. Around this time it’s good to switch topics/ introduce a new idea, use a game/ icebreaker/ audience interaction, change location, change speaker, change style etc.

Audience/ facilitating:

If looking for an answer from audience, don’t be frightened to select someone who is showing confident body language, depending on the setting/who it is.

Facilitating, engaging and involving audience as much as possible. E.G Pop values on table. come with with a creative exercise on them.

Visual communication:

Be the tree: imagine strong roots coming up through the floor, that give you strength in stillness.

Movement: When you move on stage, it wants to be purposeful.

Hand gestures, find variation to help articulate your points.

Vocal Communication

Mostly excellent; just watch filler words (ums ers etc) replace with: sharp breath in/ pause.

Exercise use random topic generator, talk on a topic for 60s without saying um er like etc.

Verbal (content)

You could replace the word ‘should’ with ‘could’ (should can create a bit of I’m not good enough/there yet in people).

Try and find something in yourself that other segments of the audience might relate to (for those who don’t play cricket/like cars. Perhaps something a bit unexpected)

Presentation:

Slides/ design/brand. (get some pro ones made and then use this for all - i.e develop your own DW presentation brand.

As you alluded to, bring others in to mix up the voice. This can be in form of video on-screen to.

How do you prepare for a speech?

Deep breathing

Visualisation of success (think of what professional sports people do)

Affirmations around what the audience thinks of you e.g they really want to hear from me, what I have to say is very useful for them, the audience loves me, they want me to win, they like me etc.

Try and find something in yourself that other segments of the audience might relate to (for those who don’t play cricket/like cars. Perhaps something a bit unexpected)

Video edits: (trim first or final frames so that it has eye contact smile where possible).

As I say, overall I think you are in an excellent position with your speaking and think your vision for using it further going forward is great. These are just some tips to help polish up your strong foundations in speaking.