Category: Speaking

  • The Oratium Public Speaking Method, Quantified

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    If you want to earn more accolades, net bigger fees, and land better bookings as a public speaker, then you need to become a better public speaker. I’ve taken a variety of public speaking courses and trainings over the years: Dale Carnegie, Toastmasters, NLP, and many others. Almost all public speaking training focuses on the delivery of our content – how we say things. A rare few focus on the design, the architecture of our content – what we say.

    The exception to this rule is the Oratium speaking course. Taught by Tamsen Webster and her colleagues, Oratium will help you improve your public speaking by teaching you how to design a better talk. In March of 2014, I attended my first Oratium training. Since then, my speaking has gotten measurably better.

    How measurably, you ask?

    One of the tricks (first taught to me by DJ Waldow) I use to track my speaking performance is the use of Twitter Likes. Instead of randomly Liking comments on Twitter, I Like praise about my speaking and use my Twitter Likes as a record of my performance.

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    By storing my speaking testimonials this way, I can also turn the Likes into charts. Take a look at this multi-year chart of my speaking testimonials:

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    I started using the Oratium method in 2014, but it took a few months to redesign my talks. I dove headfirst into the method; I revamped each talk with strict adherence to the method. I began to see an uptick in the testimonials I received in the second half of 2014. In 2015, I increased my positive testimonials by 68% year over year.

    One of the advantages of the Oratium method is that by writing out my talks, I’m able to generate abstracts and speaking proposals quickly. In 2015, I spoke at 25% more events as I did in 2014 – and doubled the number of keynotes.

    Finally, while I won’t get into exact numbers, I earned approximately 400% more in 2015 from speaking than I earned in 2014.

    68% increased positive praise.
    25% more bookings.
    400% more earnings.

    If you want to receive more praise, land better speaking opportunities, and earn more, take the Oratium course. You’ll become a better speaker the moment you start using the method.

    If you’re an event organizer and would like to see the Oratium method in action, contact me. I am happy to speak at your event.

    Disclosure: I was not compensated by Oratium for this post, nor do I receive any financial benefit, directly or indirectly, from it. I did receive a substantial discount to take the class in 2014, but I was not asked to write about my experience.

  • The danger of hard selling during your conference presentation

    Few things irritate me like a conference session that turns into a sales pitch for the presenter. I don’t mind a quick plug at the beginning or the end, or a relevant case study that shows how you accomplished something as long as I can learn from it, too. I get it; I work for a company that I promote in my talks. But when a session is just a long commercial? That’s just irritating.

    Conferences have tried to handle this in the past to different degrees of success. PodCamp was founded on the BarCamp principle of the Law of Two Feet: if something isn’t working for you, just walk out. It’s a principle that has served unconferences quite well, and will continue to do so. Other conferences try to vet their speakers carefully or mandate that speakers also present with a neutral third party co-presenter. But what about being at a conference where your options are more limited, or group dynamics requires you to sit through a sales pitch?

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    The mental game I play with such sessions in order to pass the time is reverse engineering. I’ll listen to a sales pitch session carefully, taking notes not about the talk itself, but its structure, the structure of the solution. From there, I daydream how to engineer something better, how to take the solution as presented, improve it with what I know and what I can Google, and possibly make a new, better version of the product being sold.

    For example, I was at a conference last year that had a disguised sales pitch session (much to the organizers’ chagrin, as they later told me, and that speaker has been disinvited to future events as a speaker). The session was about some radical new social media analytics tool. The demonstration was on the light side, as these pitches tend to be, but once you dug past the sales hyperbole (“unrivaled social tracking capabilities for only $2,500 a month!”), there was a kernel of something useful.

    Once I had the basic idea of what the product did, I hit my usual development resources (like GitHub) to see if anyone else had created something similar. While no one had, there were enough pieces laying around that, with a little bit of coding glue, I was able to craft something better, something that better suited my needs, while on the plane ride home.

    That was almost certainly not the intent, not the desired outcome of the sales speaker, but it’s a consequence of not speaking to the audience and serving them first. Had he instead just talked about social analytics in general, and added the customary plug at the end, I would have been far less bored and far less inspired to craft a competing product.

    This is the hidden danger of a boring sales pitch to an audience that has hackers and makers in it. If your pitch is blatant and boring, you just might inspire them to make your greatest competitor.


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  • How to make interactive, annotated slides live on stage

    At Salesforce Connections, I tried something new out that the audience liked: turning my slides into 21st century overheads. I prepared a workbook (which you can download here), but instead of just talking through slides, I was able to draw on them on screen. Here’s a quick demo:

    Now imagine this on the big screen, the ability to not only show content, but interact with it. How do you do this?

    The secret, at least for me, is built into the software and hardware I use. Most modern Macs (made after 2013) and modern iPhones/iPads (ones which connect with a Lightning cable) can connect to each other to share the mobile device’s screen.

    On a Mac, be sure your iPad or iPhone is plugged in via the Lightning cable.

    Then open Quicktime Player. Hit New Movie Recording:

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    Then when the standard movie window appears (probably with your webcam activated), switch to your iPad as the camera:

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    That takes care of the infrastructure setup. You can, of course, buy a separate Lightning to VGA/DVI/HDMI connector and plug your iPad in directly to the system, but the advantage of going through your laptop is that you can also record what you’re showing, which can be handy for events.

    Once you’ve got the wiring done, it’s time to share content. Create slides that have lots of whitespace for writing in the slide making software of your choice. Export those slides as JPG images.

    Then, in the drawing app of your choice (I use Penultimate, part of the Evernote family), drop your images in:

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    Now you’re ready to make live annotations on your slides in front of the crowd.

    Try this out for a fun, different way to interact with your audience!


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  • Reading the Room: 5 Zones of Audience Attention

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    When you’re speaking, be it on stage, in a boardroom, or even with your colleagues at the water cooler, you’re likely to notice different levels of attention and engagement. I’ve noticed roughly 5 zones of attention and indicators about where people are:

    • I don’t care: The audience simply doesn’t care. They don’t want to be there.
    • I’ve already got it: The audience is bored by hearing something they’ve heard before.
    • I get it: The audience is excited and engaged by what you’re saying.
    • I think I get it: The audience is excited but confused.
    • I don’t even understand what’s being said: The audience is frustrated.

    When you’re reading the room (see this previous post for the basics), pay attention to these key, visible indicators in combination:

    • Note taking: Note the pace at which people are taking notes. How fast are they typing or writing? How much are they writing?
    • Side conversations: Note the number of side conversations people have, and whether the interactions are quick check-ins (“what did he say”) vs. full conversations.
    • Posture: Disengaged audiences tend to slouch or recline. Engaged audiences lean forward or sit straight up, depending on how they’re taking notes. Frustrated audiences hunch forward but aren’t taking notes.

    The 5 general zones and their corresponding indicators map out like this:

    State I don’t care I’ve already got it I get it I think I get it I don’t even understand what’s being said
    Note taking Low Low High Medium Low
    Side convos High High Low Medium High
    Posture Disengaged Disengaged Positive engaged Positive engaged Frustrated

    Your task as a speaker, as a marketer, is to keep people squarely in “I get it”. Most everyone in a meeting or talk starts out there. Watch for indicators that people have strayed too far to “I’ve already got it” or “I think I get it”, as those are warning signs you’re not aligned with what they can handle.


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  • My crazy speaker prep process

    I’m often asked how I prepare presentations and talks for public speaking. The answer has changed a lot over the past year, but my current process is the one I’m most happy with. First and foremost, I have to know that I have something people want to hear about. There are some topics that are evergreen, like analytics, measurement, etc. There are some topics that are new and experimental. What constitutes a good public speaking topic? The litmus test I use is whether I’d attend the talk or not, based on the title of the talk. If I wouldn’t go, I certainly won’t present it.

    Once a topic is decided upon, I start to build out the talk. The process I use is one taught to me by Tamsen Webster and Oratium, which is a course I’d highly recommend anyone who does any kind of speaking partake of. I figure out what the core call to action of the talk is, the big insights that people need to believe in order to take action, and what knowledge they have to have in order to reinforce or build their beliefs. There’s a great deal more to the process than that, but you’ll have to go take the course to get it. (read more about it here)

    Once I’ve worked out the framework for the talk, I typically do a mind map of the insights and knowledge that I’m going to need to provide. This abbreviated mind map then gets fed into Scrivener, my eBook writing software.

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    Inside of Scrivener, I write out the entire talk, word for word. I know I speak at roughly 150 words per minute, and I know the talk is going to be X minutes long, so I write 150 * X words. A 30 minute talk is 4,500 words; a 45 minute talk is 6,750 words. That way I know what I’m going to say, what I’m not going to say, etc. I know how long my talk will run, on average, which means I can avoid the two awkward situations of finishing 25 minutes early or racing through the last 10 slides in 3 minutes.

    Once the script is done, I’ve effectively got my speaking notes (the mind map) and the script for rehearsal. Then it’s rehearsal time. I’ll go through and remove stuff that doesn’t work, rearrange pieces as needed, etc. until I’m happy with the final product, and verify that the word count hasn’t changed substantially.

    That’s not where the process ends, though. For major events, I’ll then go and set up a landing page where people can download the eBook (because that’s what the script is, when you think about it) for lead generation purposes, and depending on the event, I may even do paid advertising to promote the eBook to event attendees. I’ll usually set up pre-scheduled tweets and social media updates, too.

    The entire process from beginning to end takes about a month of on and off work. After all is said and done, it’s probably an hour a day for 30 days to create a polished final product – but the result is that when I go on stage, I do so with confidence. I know what I’m supposed to do, and I know what I’m not supposed to do.

    What’s your speaking process look like?


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  • Will your speech be a success?

    Lots of different public speaking programs claim the ability to help you be a successful speaker, to be able to make people love you and adore you. With the exception of Oratium (which is more about presentation architecture than on-stage charisma), I’ve not found any that address the fundamental flaw in most speaking programs.

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    The fundamental flaw goes back to a direct marketing concept first created by Bob Stone in 1967. Stone simply said that direct marketing was a matter of three things in descending order of importance: list, offer, creative. If you don’t have the right list, your campaign will fail. If you don’t have the right offer, the list won’t respond. If you don’t have the right creative, the offer will not be noticed.

    Let’s take Bob Stone’s framework and apply it to public speaking. Who is the list? It’s your audience. It’s who is in the room. If you have a canned talk, a topic that you’re known for (or want to be known for), you have to figure out whether the people sitting in the room even want to hear about it. If it’s not deeply relevant, it doesn’t matter how good a speaker you are or how good your speech is, they won’t care. Choose your audiences with care! Some audiences and some shows, no matter what the speaking fee is or how important the attendees are, simply are not good fits, and you should pass them up. If your topic is relevant to the room, then you’ve cleared the first and most important hurdle.

    The offer in Stone’s framework is the content, which in the speaking world is the content of your speech. The best speakers I know adapt their talks heavily to who the audience is, to who will be in the room. Jay Baer is a master of this – he even rewrites entire books for specific industries. I recently delivered a talk to SpiceWorld, an IT developer (and now IT marketer) conference, and it was written expressly for the IT marketer, filled with nerd references, and tailored to the audience so that they would understand the relevance of what I was saying. Make sure that your speech feels like it was written for the crowd you’re with, and that crowd only.

    The creative in Stone’s framework is the delivery in the world of speaking. As is the case in direct marketing, the delivery, or how you speak, is the least important of the three areas. It’s still important, but if you’ve got the wrong audience and you’ve got the wrong content, how well you delivery it will be irrelevant. Conversely, if you have the right audience and fascinating content, people can excuse mediocre delivery. This is where speaking programs that focus on tonality, umm and ah counting, etc. can come in handy, to add some polish to your delivery, but a good voice lessons class or acting class can do just as much good (and probably be significantly less expensive). Much of how I learned to speak came from modeling my martial arts instructors.

    Audience. Content. Delivery. Get them right, in that order, and your speech stands a much greater chance of being a success!


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  • Upping my speaking game

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    Over the last two days, I had the opportunity to attend a training for public speakers with a coaching firm, Oratium, led in part by my friend Tamsen Webster. One of the things I’ve always struggled with as a public speaker is coming up with a winning architecture for my presentations. I can do the delivery, the performance, just fine, but I’ve always felt that something was missing, something wasn’t quite right, something wasn’t as good as it could be.

    What the last two days showed me were the missing pieces, the few tweaks and adjustments I need to make in order to take a presentation from good to great, from ordinary to extraordinary. I don’t view myself as a bad speaker, but the training was beneficial for me to understand what could be better, and what will be better in future talks I give. What I enjoyed most about the Oratium training was that it presented a complex, complete framework of how presentations work, and from there I could assess what I did right already and where I am deficient. Instead of trying to “just be better” or “just do more”, I could clearly see what it was that I wasn’t doing right.

    What’s one of the biggest points where I have not done as good a job as a speaker? Giving the conclusions outright to the audience. This is a deficiency that comes largely from my martial arts training, where we learn to draw our own conclusions in real-time (and face bone-jarring consequences if our conclusions are incorrect), which is an efficient way to learn for the martial arts, but not an efficient way to learn or teach from the stage. Because of the limitations of how we learn in real-time (relatively poorly if we’re not trained to do so), it’s simply better for a speaker to hand a conclusion or insight to the audience rather than make them work for it and possibly come to a completely wrong conclusion.

    I’ve got a lot of work to do in order to revamp and rework my speaking, but in the coming months and years, I hope that the training pays off for you (should you choose to see me speak) as much as it already has for me. If you’re ever in the speaking role, I would strongly encourage you to take an Oratium master class as well.

    Disclosure: I was not compensated by Oratium for this post, nor do I receive any financial benefit, directly or indirectly, from it. I did receive a substantial discount to take the class, but there was no expectation or requirement for me to write about it.


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  • Become a better speaker by setting correct motivation

    I was having dinner the other night with one of my coworkers, and we were discussing a talk I had delivered at a recent conference. During the course of the conversation, I related one of the biggest breakthroughs I had as a speaker that totally changed public speaking for me.

    In the beginning of my public speaking career, I was up on stage mainly to promote either the business I was working for or my own personal brand, and while the talks I gave were substantive enough, they were neither inspirational nor terribly educational. I also struggled with things like imposter syndrome and even stage fright.

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    What changed the game for me was a seminar I took in 2007 with my meditation teacher, Stephen K. Hayes, on setting motivation. During this training, we envisioned ourselves as these heroic archetypes whose very words touched the people around us and healed suffering, made the world a better place. From that training, I took the lesson that my motivations for being on stage were not what they could be. If I changed from a perspective of “the audience is here to serve me” to the perspective of “I am here to serve the audience”, then my motivations would set my energy and enthusiasm.

    With the right motivations, the right energy, and the right enthusiasm, I now speak confidently and happily on stage, knowing that I am there for the right reasons. I am there to be helpful, to do my best to encourage, inspire, and help make everyone who sits in the crowd in any given talk a little bit better at their professions. I am there to do my part to help the world become a better place, and that perspective is incredibly energizing, exciting, and inspiring, which makes me a better speaker.

    Call it karma, balance, or common sense, but my talks now achieve what I had originally set out to do as well: help grow the businesses I work for and my own personal brand, but by focusing on how I can help you, not how you can help me.

    Om padma udbhavaya svaha! Every word helps the world become a better place if our motivations are correct!


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  • The Secret to Not Giving Away Your Secrets While Speaking

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    In the previous post, we talked about how to get at the secrets being shown in conferences in order to reap value for your company’s products or services. Let’s look at the flip side of that coin: suppose you’re presenting and you want to share your successes, but not give away the secret sauce of your company’s competitive advantage(s).

    One of my favorite Jay Baer quotes regarding how much information you should share publicly is, “Having the recipe does not make you a chef”. For the most part, this is true – you can speak about what you’re doing to a greater or lesser degree and the average consumer will read it, enjoy it, maybe get some ideas or inspiration from it, but probably won’t go to the effort of cooking it themselves, especially if they are less skilled than you. Ideally, they’ll think it’s so brilliant that they’ll come to your restaurant and have you cook for them. That’s the absolute best case scenario.

    However, if you have a lot of chefs in the audience, particularly chefs at competing restaurants, then when you publish a recipe, another chef at the same or greater skill level can look at your recipe and be able to produce it on their own. In those instances, you’d lose part of your competitive advantage. That sounds bad, doesn’t it? It sounds like the kind of thing that would make you stop sharing recipes entirely and just speak with inspirational quotes and stories of cats.

    So what’s the middle ground between the best and worst case scenarios? How would you go about doing this, especially in a way that is still ethical, honorable, and helpful?

    Be Helpful at a More Basic Level

    One of the best ways to do this is to tailor your talk below the presumed skill level of your competitors, effectively telling them nothing new. For example, one of the tips I shared in my SocialFresh talk was about finding media opportunities using existing inbound links. This is a common and commonsense practice that many marketers already use (or should, anyway), so for those who have heard it, it reaffirms what they’re already doing but doesn’t give away any more advanced tools and technologies.

    Pick Orderless Recipes

    In cooking, some recipes can have things go in any order. For example, if you’re making an overnight or slow cooker stew, for the most part, you can throw in items in relatively any order or no order at all, because it’s all going to cook up together. For other recipes, such as the creaming method in baking, if you don’t perforate the butter with sugar in a mixer, you will have a baked good that will be as dense as a brick and unpalatable, if not inedible.

    If you want to share stuff that doesn’t give away competitive advantage, exclude sharing the recipes that have specific orders. Keep those to yourself, to your business, and share the general order recipes that will give success to audience members. Then get super proficient at the special order recipes so that they become key competitive advantages rather than the orderless recipes.

    Share Recipes But Not Execution

    A third and final way to share without giving away the farm is to share recipes without sharing your execution of them. For example, you could recommend a recipe that involved the curation of email lists. Most people, when faced with a data curation task, simply hand it off to the lowest paid employee to do and it gets done one way or another. However, you might have a special method in your toolkit or a special piece of code that gets the job done exponentially faster. Your competitive advantage isn’t the recipe itself but the efficiency of your execution of the recipe, and thus you can freely share the recipe with others.

    Conclusion

    These suggestions don’t stop someone who’s got a master chef on staff from decoding all of your secrets, but it’s been my experience that there aren’t that many master chefs out there that are attending all of these conferences. They stopped attending long ago when they were no longer able to extract as much easy value out of them, and thus they stopped when the easy wins stopped.


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