TJ WALKER - THE HABIT INFLUENCER - Personal Development | LIVE STREAM

20 Feb 2019 · 2 min

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Short excerpt from a TJ Walker live-stream lecture on presentation skills. Walker cautions against beginning talks with self-focused introductions (name, credentials, accomplishments) because that bores audiences; instead he recommends launching immediately into a story to hook listeners. He briefly contrasts the boring approach (listing founding Media Training Worldwide, 30+ years experience, 100,000 students, bestselling book) with starting via a story.

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Media Training Worldwide

about 30 some years

100,000 students

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Did you see what I just did right there? In the previous lecture we had a quick wins lecture. We hadn't really started but last lecture was the first real lecture of this whole course.
I didn't start by saying hello, thank.
You so much for signing up for my course. I'm happy to be here today. Let me tell you about how great I am. I'm TJ Walker and I founded Media Training Worldwide and I've been doing this for 30 some years and I have.
100,000 students and I've written best selling book.
That's not how I started because that's boring. And so much of what gives people frustration, nervousness when they're starting a presentation is this fear of being boring. Well, it turns out it's a legitimate.
Fear because most people start off the way I just did a second ago, they start talking about me, me, me, I better justify myself, otherwise why should.
Anyone pay attention, let me defend myself. To have the right to speak here, that's the mentality people have. But the best way to start a presentation, look at what I did in the previous lecture. I just launched right into a story.
So stories are great not just to.
Make presentations more interesting.
Stories are great not just to lighten the mood. Stories are not great just to get.
A laugh, but they're the best way to actually start a presentation because then.
You know you'll be interesting and your.
Audience will be hooked from the beginning.