How to Start a Speech with Impact Benjamin Ball Associates
Do you want to give high impact talks and presentations?
Do you want to engage your audience? And do you want to look and feel confident when speaking?
If your answer to any of these is ‘yes’, then these techniques are for you.
We’ve been coaching business leaders to become impressive public speakers for more than ten years. We can transform a nervous presenter into a confident public speaker in just a few hours.
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When you start a speech, you need to grab the audience’s attention. And the start of the speech is probably the most important part of the speech, it’s where we, when we’re coaching people, spend more time than anything else. Lots of techniques that you can use, a story, an anecdote but the big idea I would say is try and connect with your audience. If you connect with them, engage with them at the very beginning, you’re much more likely to have a successful speech.
People sometimes ask us; how can they start a speech with impact? And it’s a good question. The first 30 seconds of your speech are probably the most important. So, how do you do it? Well, you can use a powerful fact, you can use a counter intuitive argument, or you can use a personal story that grabs their attention. Because, if you’ve won their attention in the first 30 seconds, it’s much easier to hold it for the rest of your talk.
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