Professional Development: The Secrets to Master Public Speaking

motivational speaker. I've been doing this for the last twelve years now and I literally travel all across the United Kingdom motivating and speaking to people, whether they're in education, in business, or in sports. And you know, I've had the pleasure in honor of traveling to different countries such as Scotland and Switzerland to go and motivate people as well.

For me, I'm a fellow earner as well, So for me, it's only right that you know, I share some of my tools and gems with my people, and you know, I'm excited about tonight's webinar Man. Motivational speaking is something that you know, I think when you think about motivational speaking, people can have different mindsets towards it. You know, you get some people that they think of Tony Robbins and Les Brown's and then you get some people that think

of like E. T. Eric Thomas. That's my guy personally, that's what I like to follow. So you're going to see that maybe there's some similarities between myself and ET because I just feel like ET's got that energy, that

fire that really resonates with me. And I hope that I can just really give you guys some tools and tips tonight that you know, you guys would also resonate with as I'm going throughout the presentation, and feel free to like put some questions in the Q and a box or some questions in the chat, and you know, at the end of it, I'll make sure that we have time to address your questions because I don't just want to be here speaking at you and not give

you guys the opportunity as well to you know, kind of get some questions answered. All right, So I'm going to get straight into it. So can I share my presentations? That cool? Absolutely, We're ready? All right, all right, let's go. So I'm going to share my screen with you guys as as they say, the little fancy presentation for you guys as you know, okay, well I say fancy point, guys, you know, don't get excited now. Animation's the moving images you know, but you know I did it myself someonem

proud you know. All right, all right, all right, we're gonna get We're gonna get it popping as you guys say, right, So here we go, all right, So, yes, public speaking. If you guys can see my presentation, just give me a number one in the chats. So I know we're good. Yeah, we're good. Lovely, lovely, lovely, lovely, wonderful, wonderful, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. So I'm going to get straight into it right now.

So it's just some of the content of what I'm going to be covering tonight, you know, So things like how to structure a talk a speech, you know, rules of engagement, how to connect with your audience, the importance of energy, eye contact, personality, body language, and diction. These are just some of the elements that are really important. But it comes to you know, delivering a motivational speech or any sort of speech or presentation. Right, So the

first thing is how to structure your talk. Now, a typical talk, guys, is broken down into what we call three segments. So you have your opening, you have what we call your core, which is like the middle part of your talk and you have like you're closing right, And I feel like the key thing whenever you're going to deliver a talk is you must set the tone

from the opening. So, for example, whenever I'm going to deliver a talk, one thing I do as my sort of audience and crowd is coming in, I've got music playing, right, but watch this. One thing that's key is knowing your audience before you get there. Right. So right, if I'm going to be like speaking to a bunch of country folk, I am about to pay non meek meal as they're coming in right now about playing some take the swift

for them? Dog? Do you see what I'm saying? Because what happens is when you can play music that your audience can relate to, automatically, it puts them in a good mood. Automatically it helps them to put their guard down. But automatically you straight away build some form of rapport with them. And what I find is by the time like the music stopped and you know, the introduction comes, I find that my audience are a lot more relaxed and they're a lot more willing to engage with me.

When I say every good morning, good afternoon, or good evening. But what you find is when there's no music, there's no energy created. Then you find that people struggle with energy. So imagine you walk into an auditorium there's absolute silence, there's no music playing. Everyone's just kind of maybe talking amongst themselves, and then out of nowhere, someone comes on the stage and like, hey, good evening. You're gonna be like, who's this a right? So it's really important that you

set the tongue. Another thing that I realized in you're opening, so I said, you know, it could be a statement or you can be a question. No one thing I love to do with my audience when I open, I love.

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done this? How many people oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I've done that? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that's mean. You know, even if I'm like, for example, you know, talking in education, and I'll go to a school, I'm like, hey man, how many of you you can't stand school at the moment? How many of you can't stand away? And it's like, yeah, I can relate to that, So you know, you might be even in the corporate setting, you know, how many of you can't stand the state of the economy at

the moment? People like yes, I mean I feel you right now. But it's so important to kind of set the foundation. I love questions. You can start with a statement or a quote or something like that, but I just feel like it's so strong when you ask a question and you kind of get your audience involved straight away. Now, in the kind of middle bit, the corebet of your talk, of your speech, this is where you should address you know, the key information, tell your stories, and again ask questions.

One thing you'll see whenever I deliver a speech a talk, is I ask questions throughout my presentation.

generation where you must capture people's interest very fast. Right, So whenever I'm delivering a speech, even when I'm in the middle section of the speech, I'd like to ask questions just to make sure that my audience is still engaged. So it could be little things that if you can relate to what I just said, raise your hands, right, that is getting my audience involved. That's making sure they're still a weight, that's making sure that they're still with me. Right.

Another thing that's really important is, you know, feel free to tell stories, but make sure that your stories are relevant right now. When it comes to motivating an audience,

I think I try not to do. And one thing I really don't find inspiring is when people just go on about what they've achieved right if it's relevant, you know, like, for example, hey, I spoke for Microsoft, I spoke for Apple, I spoke for AT and T and yeah, and now my life that's great, that's great, But I'm struggling with discipline and me finding out that you spoke for AT and T ain't This ain't helping me my discipline. It

ain't helped me with my time management. But then watch this if I now tell you the story of how I struggled with discipline and how I overcame that discipline. Hey man, for example, I was I was this way, and you know I've went through this journey. We're I

lost five stone. You know, I used to wake up at four am in the morning to go to the gym, I change my eating had and I kind of tell them a story about me, but it's relevant to the topic of discipline as well at the same time, because anyone can say a story about a celebrity, right, But what I find is so much more inspiring me. You can find a relatable story about yourself that can connect to your audience.

And it's so much more inspiring when you can get some inspiration from the person who's actually in front of you, because naturally, as human beings, you know, we don't want to be sold a dream, we don't want to be sold a story. We want someone to keep it real with us. Well, I know you Americas, they keep it a buck with you, right, is that what you guys say?

Keep it a buck? Right? So you just want someone to, you know, just keep it real with you guys, right, And that's one thing I'm saying, man, you not be afraid to be authentic and just keep it real with people with your stories. I like to tell people about my experiences, things that I've gone through, as long if it relates to them. I don't like just telling people

things about me for the sake of doing it. I like it to do it so that it makes sense, They can relate to it, they can gain some inspiration from it, and they can figure out how they can apply these stories and tools to their own life.