2000 World Champion of Public Speaking, Ed Tate, shared these tips in an educational session at a Toastmasters International Convention. Try using these in creating your speeches.
H-heart. Your speech should touch your audience emotions. Include a touching real life story, a motivational quotation, a passionate plea that opens your audience’s hearts.
H-head. Your audience wants to be fed with intelligent facts. Your speech should address this need by including good research, meaningful statistics, and supporting materials.
H-humor. Never underestimate the power of humor in delivering your message. This allows your audience to enjoy listening and paying closer attention. Edutainment is a current trend – entertainment while you educate.
H-heavy duty. You should have a heavy-duty message. Give your audience something significant, meaningful and useful, something that will enrich their lives.
Next time you are up for that speech, use these 4H’s tips and watch your speech come alive. ¨
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
The Magic 4H’s of an Award Winning Speech
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Teresa,
I have since made some changes to my original 4-H’s formula.
It is now the “4.5 H’s”
1. Head
2. Heart
3. Humor
4. Heavy-Hitting
Humor is the only "H" that is optional. Not all subjects (or presenters) are humorous.
The 4th "H" is now “Heavy-Hitting.” I have also changed the name to avoid confusion with the 4-H Clubs of America.
Your readers can see examples of the 4.5 H’s on my website. Go to http://www.edtate.com/products.html to see the 4 H’s in action.
I've released a Home-Study Course on this topic called "Energize, Educate & Entertain - How to Connect with Any Audience Every Time and Make Your Presentations Remarkable, Memorable, and Profitable!”
Thanks for the post!
Ed Tate, CSP
Certified Speaking Professional
2000 World Champion of Public Speaking
OMG! It's you! What an honor to have you comment on my post. You truly rock of awesome!
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