How to Know If a Speech Was Effective - Public Speaking Video Lecture -

so how do you know if your speech was
effective there's this attitude out
there that public speaking is a
so-called soft skill like it's a little
puppy like it's just this intangible
that gets not a hard-nosed thing like
accounting or chemistry well to that I
say baloney you can quantify your public
speaking exactly the same way you do
any aspect of counting or physics or
chemistry how do you do it
same way you do anything else you test
you measure if you have to give a
presentation to 30 sales execs on
Wednesday give them your presentation
when you're done ask them every message
point from your speech they remember ask
them every slide from your PowerPoint
that they remember any message point
that they can throw back in your face
you now have empirical evidence that the
way you presented that was effective any
PowerPoint slide they remember and can
toss back in your face you have
empirical evidence that the way you
presented it was effective however if
you ask them how you did and they say oh
well teach everything was great you're a
wonderful speaker that was fine then I
know I was awful I know I failed I know
I bombed so it's very easy to find out
what's effective and what isn't
effective now here's the secret you
don't have to wait until you get in
front of your real audience if you're
speaking to 50 clients on Thursday find
three colleagues together Tuesday at
lunchtime give them a free sandwich at
lunch give your presentation when you're
done ask them every message point they
remember and if there's something they
don't remember you've got to go back and
retool your presentation and do it again
until they remember it this is not
touchy-feely this is not squishy this is
not hmm
no wonder if the room was warm that day
this is quantifiable you can find out if
your speech is effective or not
you're either remembered by your
audience or you're not it really is that
simple
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