Comments on: Get It Done: Thinking On Your Feet And Building A Speech Real Quick http://www.theaccidentalcommunicator.com/speech-writing/get-it-done-thinking-on-your-feet-and-building-a-speech-real-quick The Premier Blog For Quickly Improving Your Public Speaking, Presentation & Communication Skills Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:04:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Warwick John Fahy http://www.theaccidentalcommunicator.com/speech-writing/get-it-done-thinking-on-your-feet-and-building-a-speech-real-quick/comment-page-1#comment-610 Warwick John Fahy Mon, 05 Apr 2010 11:06:19 +0000 http://www.theaccidentalcommunicator.com/?p=893#comment-610 Jim This is a good article and touches on an important block that many business presenters face. People get too tied up in preparing slides and charts and handouts - while totally forgetting the purpose of their presentation. Why are you, the audience, in the room? What can I do to deliver as much value as possible? What is my message in a nutshell? Of course, being short is not easy and does require practice. Great ways to work on thinking of your feet including learning about improv skill, run a hot-seat session where people fire questions at you and learn some simple structures that help with organising thoughts quickly. I also believe that business executives can benefit from learning about taglines from the branding and advertising world and apply it to their presentations. I have attached a link to an article I wrote below. All the best Warwick The One Minute Presenter Tagline Your Messages: http://www.oneminutepresenter.com/2009/12/tagline-your-messages/ Jim
This is a good article and touches on an important block that many business presenters face. People get too tied up in preparing slides and charts and handouts – while totally forgetting the purpose of their presentation.

Why are you, the audience, in the room?
What can I do to deliver as much value as possible?
What is my message in a nutshell?

Of course, being short is not easy and does require practice. Great ways to work on thinking of your feet including learning about improv skill, run a hot-seat session where people fire questions at you and learn some simple structures that help with organising thoughts quickly.

I also believe that business executives can benefit from learning about taglines from the branding and advertising world and apply it to their presentations. I have attached a link to an article I wrote below.

All the best
Warwick
The One Minute Presenter

Tagline Your Messages:
http://www.oneminutepresenter.com/2009/12/tagline-your-messages/

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