The slide deck I used for a week long workshop with leadership students at a university.

1. NOTE:
please use this presentation
for personal reference only.
Thanks.

4. pub
e
lic
aking
sp

5. What should we talk
about?

7. “Public speaking
is the art of
diluting a two-
minute idea with
a two-hour
vocabulary.”
John F. Kennedy

10. “As long as there are human
rights to be defended; as long
as there are great interests to
be guarded; as long as the
welfare of nations is a matter for
discussion, so long will public
speaking have its place.”
William Jennings Bryan

11. “To be a person is to
have a story to tell.”
Isak Dinesen

12. The secret ingredient
to public speaking:

13. “There is no
“There is no secret
secret
ingredient.”
ingredient.”

14. find your “-
ness” (You Me
and Dupree
clip)

15. “The eloquent man is he who
is no beautiful speaker, but who
is inwardly and desperately
drunk with a certain belief.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Journals, 1845

16. “Be still when you have
nothing to say; when
genuine passion moves
you, say what you've got to
say, and say it hot.”
D.H. Lawrence

17. Identity

18. Passion

19. Preparation

20. Packaging

21. Presentation

22. Preparation

24. “Eat like a bird. . .

25. . . .poop like an
elephant.”

26. Communicating For A Change

27. Selecting Your
Topic

28. Consider Your Audience
You Me and
Dupree 2-
audience
analysis

29. Consider Your Audience
Who Are They?
Age

30. Consider Your Audience
Who Are They?
Age
Background

31. Consider Your Audience
Who Are They?
Age
Background
Education

32. Consider Your Audience
Who Are They?
Age
Background
Education
Experience

33. Consider Your Audience
Who Are They?
Age
Background
Education
Experience
Gender

34. Consider Your Audience
How Can You Serve Them?
Encourage
Enlighten
Empower

35. Seven Questions to Knowing Your Audience
1 What are they like?
Demographics and psychographics are a great start, but connecting with your audience means
understanding them on a personal level. Take a walk in their shoes and describe what their life
looks like each day.
2 Why are they here?
What do they think they’re going to get out of this presentation? Why did they come to hear you?
Are they willing participants or mandatory attendees? This is also a bit of a situation analysis.
3 What keeps them up at night?
Insert a representative
Everyone has a fear, a pain point, a thorn in the side. Let your audience know you empathize—and
picture or illustration of an
offer a solution.
audience member in this
rectangle. It helps to put a
face on the audience. 4 How can you solve their problem?
What’s in it for the audience? How are you going to make their lives better?
5 What do you want them to do?
Answer the question “so what?”—and make sure there’s clear action for your audience to take.
6 How can you best reach them?
People vary in how they receive information. This can include the set up of the room to the availability
of materials after the presentation. Give the audience what they want, how they want it.
7 How might they resist?
What will keep them from adopting your message and carrying out your call to action?
© duarte.com 2008

36. Brainstorm

41. ME WE GOD YOU WE

42. ME WE GOD YOU WE

43. ME WE GOD YOU WE

44. ME WE GOD YOU WE

45. ME WE GOD YOU WE

46. ME WE GOD YOU WE

47. ME WE GOD YOU WE

48. Packaging

49. gods arent
angry (last 10
minutes)

50. The curse and
the gap

52. PRINCIPLE 1 PRINCIPLE 2 PRINCIPLE 3 PRINCIPLE 4 PRINCIPLE 5 PRINCIPLE 6
SIMPLE UNEXPECTED CONCRETE CREDIBLE EMOTIONAL STORIES
© 2008 by Chip and Dan Heath. All rights reserved. Do not replicate without written permission.

59. Learning styles
“What?” “What if?”
“How?” “Who?”

60. Search
Youtube for
Lost
Generation

61. Chiasm
“In the end, its not the years in your life that counts,
its the life in your years.”
(Abraham Lincoln)

62. Chiasm
“In the end, its not the years in your life that counts,
its the life in your years.”
(Abraham Lincoln)

63. Chiasm
“Most people don’t intentionally live without purpose,
they just don’t purpose to live intentionally.”

64. Chiasm
“God is preparing you for
what He is preparing for you.”
(Steven Furtick)

65. Chiasm
“More dangerous
than those who tell a lie and make it look like the truth,
are those who tell the truth and make it look like a lie.”

66. wo word
word rd owordword
rwoword word
w d rd
word ord d wo word
= w or
w w
w rd rd
word or ordwo
w ord d word

69. Metaphor =

70. What is a metaphor?

72. Attention span
(or lack of. . .)

73. Bill Gates’ TED talk

74. Youtube search:
How NOT To Use
Powerpoint

75. The creators of PowerPoint. . .

76. . . . show us how NOT to use their product.

80. “Wow” is
right!

83. “Eat like a bird. . .

84. . . .poop like an
elephant.”

85. “Eat like a bird, poop
like an elephant.”
Guy Kawasaki

86. To stock
photo or not
to stock
photo?

87. “This, and this, and
this. . .
. . .but NOT that.”

89. Presentation

90. Get lost. . .

91. Let loose. . .

92. Youtube search:
Taylor Mali-
speak with
conviction

93. Youtube
search
Taylor Mali-
what teachers
make

94. Leave us hungry. . .

95. Resources

103. Web
http://www.madetostick.com/blog/
http://www.madetostick.com/bookresources/
http://www.presentationzen.com
http://www.slideology.com
http://sethgodin.typepad.com
http://sixminutes.dlugan.com
http://www.ted.com

104. Podcasts
Mosaic Video Podcast
Mars Hill Bible Church
North Point Community Church
Catalyst Podcast
The Moth Podcast
The Public Speaker’s
Quick and Dirty Tips

105. Tools
http://www.bible-explorer.com/free.php
http://www.aoamedia.com/dvd_ripper.htm