The Art of Mastering Your Signature Public Speaking Style

13 Mar 2024 · 1 min

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TJ Walker (speaker) advises would-be presenters to stop imitating high-energy personalities ("Stop trying to be Tony Robbins") and to develop their own signature public-speaking style. The main prescription: focus on interesting, useful, and memorable ideas for the audience; authenticity is more important than theatrics. Walker notes many speakers are boring, so anything distinctive—even modest departures from the norm—will engage audiences (examples: sitting on a stool, tap-dancing, varied stage approaches).

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Stop trying to be Tony Robbins. Can I have an eye? Can everyone say I there? You know who I'm talking about. When it comes to public speaking, presentation skills, there are a million different styles that work. You don't have to pretend to be someone else. You don't have to be overly theatrical. You can be yourself. The main thing to focus on is have interesting ideas that are useful to your audience, that are memorable to your audience. If you do that, you can have any kind of style you want. You might come out, sit on a bench or a stool. You might come up, tap dance. There's a lot of different styles. It's a big world out there. Because keep this in mind, most speakers, most presenters are really boring. So anything a little bit out of the ordinary is going to be a big win for you and the audience.