What worries you the most while you are on stage presenting? Forgetting your words? Not being interesting enough? Research demonstrates that there are two ways to overcome your limitations as a public speaker: to learn effective techniques, and then practice them on stage over and over again. It is not nuclear physics but it is a fact. The proposed keynote aims to decode and introduce the science behind public speaking to add value to the area of presentations.
- Key tips for preparing for an upcoming speech/presentation. Common mistakes that untrained speakers make.
- Expectation and impression management during public speaking and presentations.
- Strategic use of audiences' attention and importance of avoiding split attention effects.
- Increasing presentation's memorability.
- Influence of transmitting ideas through successful narratives.
- Neurochemistry and three-dimensional mechanics of storytelling.
- Conscious differentiation of body posture and the influence it has on others' perceptions.
- Hand gesture management to enhance our message.
- Voice tricks that can help us captivate our respective audience.
- Introducing the concept of the speaker's knockout to understand why our behavior changes so much when we speak in public.
- Learn how to control cognitive load to unlock your natural communication powers.
- Generating the scientific effect of emotional contagion as a speaker.
- Advanced public speaking tips all the way from business presentations to the TED scene.