In-person and virtual attendance options are available for this event.
Adding Humor, Creative Use of the Stage and Performance Elements to Emotionally Connect to Your Audience
Is your talk accidentally boring? Here’s how to tell:
- Do you get Standing O’s when you’re done?
- Do flocks of people talk to you after?
- Do you get social media followers or clients after?
- Do you get hired for other speaking events on the spot?
- Is your content original or something we can find on the internet
- Do you have stats on your slides?
- Are you using stories that aren’t 100% of your own?
- Are you utilizing each learning style so that everyone in the audience has a chance to engage?
If your speech is accidentally boring, it’s ok. We’re going to help you fix it!
- Do’s and Don’t for engaging slides (Hint: Slides are not for stats-boooring.)
- The Hook: Why the 1st 5-7 minutes is everything in your speech
- Storytelling from an actor’s perspective
- Understanding and including the 3 different learning styles of your audience
- Staging, props, and visuals
- Audience engagement (No bad conference dancing please – unless it’s your brand.)
- Audience’s emotional journey
- Foundational phrases and take aways
- Timing. Is. Everything.
- Humor: the fine art of funny
Attendees will learn:
- Reframing how to think about your speech from a performance perspective
- Understanding the Audience’s emotional journey and how to tap into it.
- Practical tips on performance, staging and humor they can implement into their own speech
This event is included in chapter membership. NSA VA members should log into their member portal to register.
