Comments on: Why Your Audience Wants Bad Things To Have Happened To Their Presenter http://www.theaccidentalcommunicator.com/motivational/why-your-audience-wants-bad-things-to-have-happened-to-their-presenter The Premier Blog For Quickly Improving Your Public Speaking, Presentation & Communication Skills Tue, 20 Jul 2010 04:07:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Dr. Jim Anderson http://www.theaccidentalcommunicator.com/motivational/why-your-audience-wants-bad-things-to-have-happened-to-their-presenter/comment-page-1#comment-270 Dr. Jim Anderson Sat, 11 Apr 2009 00:37:09 +0000 http://www.theaccidentalcommunicator.com/?p=325#comment-270 E.G.: You are correct. Now comes the hard part - once you know that a speech is really "all about the stories", now you have to figure out how best to tell stories. This is actually much harder than it seems at first glance. Great storytellers find ways to get you to enter their stories as they tell them so that you feel as though they are talking to / about you. I'm still working to get better at doing this! E.G.: You are correct. Now comes the hard part – once you know that a speech is really “all about the stories”, now you have to figure out how best to tell stories. This is actually much harder than it seems at first glance. Great storytellers find ways to get you to enter their stories as they tell them so that you feel as though they are talking to / about you. I’m still working to get better at doing this!

]]> By: E.G. Sebastian http://www.theaccidentalcommunicator.com/motivational/why-your-audience-wants-bad-things-to-have-happened-to-their-presenter/comment-page-1#comment-265 E.G. Sebastian Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:19:31 +0000 http://www.theaccidentalcommunicator.com/?p=325#comment-265 Great post! On the thousands of feedback forms that I collected during the years, I'd say that 60 to 70% mention how much they loved or enjoyed my personal stories (and, gee, do I have stories :) ). So, yes, telling stories that are relevant to the topic are one of the greatest way to get our points across. As some wise guy said it once "They might forget your points, but they'll always remember your story; and when they remember your story, they'll remember your main points." E.G. Sebastian Author, Speaker, Leadership Development Coach Great post!

On the thousands of feedback forms that I collected during the years, I’d say that 60 to 70% mention how much they loved or enjoyed my personal stories (and, gee, do I have stories :) ). So, yes, telling stories that are relevant to the topic are one of the greatest way to get our points across. As some wise guy said it once “They might forget your points, but they’ll always remember your story; and when they remember your story, they’ll remember your main points.”

E.G. Sebastian
Author, Speaker, Leadership Development Coach

]]> By: Dr. Jim Anderson http://www.theaccidentalcommunicator.com/motivational/why-your-audience-wants-bad-things-to-have-happened-to-their-presenter/comment-page-1#comment-146 Dr. Jim Anderson Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:12:32 +0000 http://www.theaccidentalcommunicator.com/?p=325#comment-146 Kare: that's an amazing story (only in Vegas!) So here's the big question, although it was not an intended part of your presentation, do you feel that your audience paid more or less attention to what you had to say after this "surprise" happened? Kare: that’s an amazing story (only in Vegas!) So here’s the big question, although it was not an intended part of your presentation, do you feel that your audience paid more or less attention to what you had to say after this “surprise” happened?

]]> By: kare anderson http://www.theaccidentalcommunicator.com/motivational/why-your-audience-wants-bad-things-to-have-happened-to-their-presenter/comment-page-1#comment-144 kare anderson Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:48:22 +0000 http://www.theaccidentalcommunicator.com/?p=325#comment-144 Apt post for me because something happened last week that was so funny - even though it was on my stage in las Vegas ... within 3 minutes of my starting my speech five dancers ran across the stage, circled around behind me and began singing "the best is yet to come." At first i thought it was a very wry attempt at humor by my meeting planner - yet MPs do NOT thinks that way... I turned to what appeared to be the lead dancer and asked, rather numbly, "what will be the best" and the crowd laughed thinking I was doing a good job of "acting" surprised. The program chair rushed on stage, yelling at them.... it took awhile to figure out that they were to be in the next ballroom .... but that could only happen because the other conference did not have the budget (we later learned) for a same-day rehearsal - or so they explained.... Kare, moving from me to we Apt post for me because something happened last week that was so funny – even though it was on my stage in las Vegas … within 3 minutes of my starting my speech five dancers ran across the stage, circled around behind me and began singing “the best is yet to come.”

At first i thought it was a very wry attempt at humor by my meeting planner – yet MPs do NOT thinks that way…

I turned to what appeared to be the lead dancer and asked, rather numbly, “what will be the best” and the crowd laughed thinking I was doing a good job of “acting” surprised.

The program chair rushed on stage, yelling at them…. it took awhile to figure out that they were to be in the next ballroom ….

but that could only happen because the other conference did not have the budget (we later learned) for a same-day rehearsal – or so they explained….
Kare, moving from me to we

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