Adult Learning Techniques & Dynamic Speaking

ADULT LEARNERS Leadership Experience Appeal Respect Novel styles

HOOKS

FIRST HOOK STARTLING ASSERTION

SECOND HOOK QUOTES

THIRD HOOK WHAT IF SCENARIO

FOURTH HOOK SOUND BITE

FIFTH HOOK AROUSE CURIOSITY

SIXTH HOOK REFERENCE TO A HISTORICAL EVENT

SEVENTH HOOK USE THE WORD IMAGINE

EIGTH HOOK ADD A LITTLE SHOW BUSINESS

NINETH HOOK TELL A STORY

The Ten Commandments of PowerPoint Enhance what the speaker is saying!

The Ten Commandments of PowerPoint Minimal information on slides.

The Ten Commandments of PowerPoint Don’t use clip art and PowerPoint tricks.

The Ten Commandments of PowerPoint Use high- contrast color schemes so that whatever is on your slides is readable.

The Ten Commandments of PowerPoint Rehearse your PowerPoint.

The Ten Commandments of PowerPoint Use blank slides.

The Ten Commandments of PowerPoint Keep the audience focused on you and not on the PowerPoint.

The Ten Commandments of PowerPoint Keep motion on the screen to a minimum.

The Ten Commandments of PowerPoint Don’t use the PowerPoint to cue the audience that this is your speech.

The Ten Commandments of PowerPoint Learn how to give a presentation without PowerPoint

Primacy and Recency We recall what we hear first and last.

Nine Principles of Accelerated Learning

Paint a Picture An Image is worth a 1000 words We think in Pictures Use Stories People believe what they can visualize.

Color Color gains Attention Color enables Memory Colors have Meanings

Nine Principles of Accelerated Learning

Increase Retention by Decreasing Stress Stress Inhibits Cognitive Ability, Memory and Retention Public Speaking is # 1 Fear Stress includes

Nine Principles of Accelerated Learning

Impact and Hands-on Words with Impact Ideas with Impact Presentation with Impact 10% of what we Read 20% of what we Hear 30% of what we See 50% of what we See and Hear 70% of what we Say 90% of what we Say and Do

Nine Principles of Accelerated Learning

Repetition Repeat Important Items “Tell them what your going to tell them, tell them, tell them what you told them Optimal retention requires 6 repetitions

Nine Principles of Accelerated Learning

Five to Seven Minute Rule Maximum Concentration is 5 to 7 Minutes TV Generation Break it up/ creative pacing Recency and Primacy

Nine Principles of Accelerated Learning

PrimacyPaint a PictureUse Color Decrease StressImpactHands on Repetition5 to 7 MinutesRecency

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