Comments on: How Should I Introduce You Public Speaker?

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[...] a perfect world, you would have someone introduce you before any speech that you gave. Unfortunately we don’t live in a perfect world. This means that all too often we find [...]

By: Osama

Osama — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 09:57:24 +0000

Apology, here is the link:

By: Osama

Osama — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 09:56:13 +0000

An Example of a very bad speaker introduction:

http://www.uttoastmasters.com/intro.html

By: Dr. Jim Anderson

Dr. Jim Anderson — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:03:17 +0000

Rita: wow – what a great friend to have! I say go for it. Sure, there is always a possibility that the video might be “too good”, but the chances of that are pretty low. I think that the key will be how the video ends – it needs to do a soft handoff to your speech. It can be done, it’ll just take some careful design work!

By: Rita Makana Risser

Rita Makana Risser — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:38:21 +0000

Jim, as a professional speaker, I’ve often thought it would be cool to have a comedian friend of mine actually create a video introduction to warm up the group and to get away from having someone read the one I’ve written. But speaker friends warn me if the video is better than me, I’ll pale by comparison. Haven’t done it yet, but this makes me think about it again.

By: Dr. Jim Anderson

Dr. Jim Anderson — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:23:12 +0000

Terri: I guess there was no way to “bleep” out your gabled name on the demo tape! That’s one reason that you should always make sure that your printed intro is printed in nice large font – less of a chance that they’ll make a mistake!!!

By: Dr. Jim Anderson

Dr. Jim Anderson — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:21:42 +0000

Minter: Ouch! You are right on the mark when you are talking about BAD introductions. What I’ve seen happen is that the speaker is thrown for a loop even before they open their mouth and right off the bat they end up trying to undo the damage that the introduction did. This messes up the rest of their speech and they never seem to recover…!

By: Teri Yanovitch

Teri Yanovitch — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:51:24 +0000

Jim,
You are so right on this topic. I’ll never forget having a speech taped by a professional camera crew for my demo tape and the person introducing me messed up my name and garbled the rest. Now I ask them to only give a very short short bio to introduce me and I tell the rest of my story.

Teri

By: Minter

Minter — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 05:18:05 +0000

I appreciate your post — a solid and good reminder of the importance of first impressions. In Billy Crystal’s case, he has a video to do the work. For the mere mortal, I think it is indeed a great idea to have it written down. So often, when I have had to introduce someone, I have to call up someone (who is going to be a speaker) and take notes which inevitably are an interpretation, with the potential for mistakes. As for myself, I will go to task, and write up my own introduction, albeit it needs to be adapted according to the speech (and the language, etc.).

In the meantime, I thought I’d add a couple of anecdotes:

A bad introduction can happen when the introducer plain and simple gets the details wrong. Not just flubbed, but wrong information. But then, if the speaker feels the compulsion to correct openly, this then discredits everyone. Sometimes, it is just better to ride out and over the mistakes.

Another case: the introducer has a lot of energy and enthusiasm and the speaker comes out flat… Maybe the speaker should have been introducing the introducer?!