How does Steve Jobs plan a speech? The structure of Steve Jobs speeches varied depending on his goals for the communication event. But he always had 2 things; a clear take-home message and an engaging structure. For example, this speech tells an amazing story and shares unique life lessons, but it’s also a wonderful example of…
Great communicators can translate information into vivid messages. They have the skills to assess a situation and translate the information in ways that a particular audience can relate to. Technical presentation example While on holidays a few years ago I met a man who made his fortune with a company that builds aquariums. $20 million…
A vivid message opens a window in the mind for more information.Great book titles capture interest in just a few words and draw you in to open the book and read more. Find a vivid title for your communication project The title for your speech or presentation – or the tagline for your brand or website…
Movie speeches are a great opportunity see how much impact you can have in a short space of time. I watched ‘Fair Game‘ last night (with Sean Penn and Naomi Watts) which ended with a powerful movie speech. Powerful and short. In fact, the best movie speeches are only about 100 seconds. (The Gettysburg Address…
The most important thing to start a speech or presentation is to make it clear to the audience where you are taking them. Think about a typical person in your audience. Their mind is full of to-do lists and daydreams; and you walk on stage. They’ve sat through boring presentations in the past and wonder…
Great leaders, like Nelson Mandela, are associated with great leadership messages.This is no coincidence. A leadership message helps position people as great leaders. Gandhi, Anita Roddick, Steve Jobs, Steve Waugh, Bill Clinton, Richard Branson and Janine Allis are leadership examples of this. This article focuses on Nelson Mandela who led South Africa from apartheid to…
Michael Bay, one of hollywood’s hottest directors (eg: Transformers movies) and worth $400 million, had a public speaking meltdown yesterday and abruptly walked off stage mid presentation. It started with Bay joining Joe Stinziano, Executive VP of Samsung, on stage at CES (Consumer Electronics Show). After a minute or so, he lost his place, panicked and…
I’m in the Charles Pearson Theatre at the University of Melbourne, watching 12 short speeches. It’s a 3 minute speech competition called the 3 minute Thesis. These annual, 3 minute speech competitions challenge Ph.D and Masters students to effectively communicate 3-1/2 years’ of technical research into a short speech. Their task is to convey only the most important…
Great leaders, like Gandhi, are associated with great leadership messages.This is no coincidence. Vivid messages help position people as great leaders. Richard Branson, Bill Clinton, Nelson Mandela, Steve Jobs, Anita Roddick, Steve Waugh, Janine Allis and Howard Schultz are examples of this. This article focuses on Mohandas Gandhi who changed the world with his ‘non…
I love writing about Steve Jobs and his incredible communication skills. And this Ashton Kutcher speech let’s me do it again. For example, How Steve Jobs’ messaging changed the world, Steve Jobs top 5 leadership messages and particularly the speech outline of his famous Stanford graduation speech. Jobs’ ability to leverage message and structure helped Apple…