How to Sound Conversational in a Speech - Public Speaking Video Lecture

so how do you make sure you're just as
good at your prepared speech as you are
in your QA the question-and-answer
session
common problem people have they come to
me and they say TJ I'm great at the Q&A
session people are laughing they're
connecting I come alive but my prepared
speech hmm it just falls flat it seems
to bore people that's a common scenario
if that applies to you you're not alone
what's the solution though let's step
back why are you good at QA typically
you're good at QA because you listen to
one idea at a time you're answering with
just one idea one message and then you
often give an example sometimes tell a
story and you're not trying to do some
big data dump pointing to 29 different
bullet points that's what makes the QA
good and you typically go from the
abstract to the concrete you say oh that
happened to one of my clients the other
day oh that's just like what happened in
our Miami office you're instantly taking
someone's question and relating it to
something specific concrete you're going
from the abstract the theoretical to the
concrete example that's what makes your
QA interesting that's what makes it
memorable that's what draws in your
audience well guess what that's what you
should be doing in your speech to the
problem most people have with their
presentations is it's too abstract it's
too dry you don't have enough examples
you don't have enough stories so if you
want a fast fast easy solution take your
speech tear it up and throw it away
instead come up with the 10 most likely
questions you would face if you had to
talk to anyone in your audience for half
an hour and just come up with that as
your speech forget a big long speech
forget the big PowerPoint come up with
10 questions have those on a sheet of
paper and that is your speech that's
your outline and that's what you want to
say throughout the speech do that and
now your speech will be just as good as
your Q&A session