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

How do you use planned ad libs in your speech or presentation to come across as more effective and more engaging? The key is you're saying something and as if it just popped into your head and you're not reading from a script, it doesn't sound can. It's not coming out from the same speed as all your other stuff. So, for example, when I'm giving a presentation to people on how to give more effective speeches and how to do TV interviews, I'll talk about if you're standing, standing for a speech or standing for a media interview, I'll demonstrate what not to do. So I'll stand with my hands behind my back and talk about how that looks like I was handcuffed and very uncomfortable. Then I'll put my hands right in front of me in a fig leaf position down low, and I'll look at the screen and say, oh. Oh, looks like I have to go pee. Everyone laughs now. It's not the biggest laugh in the world, but it laughs. And it seems spontaneous now. I say it all the time, but by waiting a minute, looking at the TV screen because I'm on a monitor, there's a camera on me, it appears to just be an ad lib. If that were on a PowerPoint slide, it wouldn't come across effectively. If it's in a book, it wouldn't come across, it wouldn't get a laugh. But by doing it in a way that seems spontaneous, as an ad lib, it works. That's what you should do in your presentations as well. I'm TJ Walker. I help people look and sound their best when they're speaking so they can communicate effectively. If you'd like to improve your own presentation skills, then check out our online courses. We have live workshops every month in New York and private workshops conducted anywhere and everywhere in the world. Give me a call.