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All right.

Welcome back everybody.

We're in our second lesson on how to immediately capture your audience's attention.

So we talked about the first lesson.

What it's like when you first walk on that stage and how you must know what you're going to say those

first words are ease and show.

But we also talked about that first lesson which was equally as important your tone.

How do you project your voice.

Breathing practices you must breathe when you're about to speak and understanding how to slow down your

speech so that each word you say is understood and you articulate yourself with poise and with class

every word should be understood by your audience.

So today we're hopping into our second phase of how to immediately capture your audience's attention

and this will be the more practical hands on approaches that you will use when you are wiling that audience.

So starting matters can express enough how you start it's how you finish how you start it's how you

finish you can write that down you can take a note of that.

That's a very important goal.

So the first thing you need to understand when you're starting it is very important that you understand

the attention span of your audience the attention span when studied by many it is simply the amount

of concentrated time on a task without being distracted.

So of course things happen.

Somebody walks in the room somebody calls somebody sneezes because there is a basic contention detractors

but you don't want to be the attention to distract them because you're too monotone because you're not

as engaging because there is no emotion because there is no excitement.

So how do you keep your audience's attention.

How do you wow them quickly because they understand that you are looking to grab their attention immediately

because you only have approximately eight seconds.

Studies show that outages band has dropped from 12 seconds to eight seconds.

If I don't get your attention in the first eight seconds of my presentation I can very well lose your

participation.

So I must get your attention in the first eight seconds.

I got to do something I got to say something.

I got to make myself so vocal that in the first eight seconds you're thinking What is he going to say

next or where is he going from here or what is this speech all about or why am I sitting here.

Even if they get upset I can't believe he said that.

Whatever it is in the first eight seconds I gotta get the attention of my audience.

So how do I do that with the plan.

I have to have a plan to do that.

So you need to start writing down what it is you want to accomplish in your presentation.

Your presentation is like a map.

It's a focused map.

It's a concentrated focused map.

You could not just mosey into a well drafted presentation you just kind of roll into a awesome speech.

You need to hit the ground running by starting strong.

Key points of starting strong.

Let's go into that your intro.

Here we go.

We're going into the nuts and bolts of your speech.

How do we start strong.

First thing this shock treatment.

It works every time.

If you shock them you can win them.

If you shock them you slight thinking about watching a movie for the first time.

Some of the best movies in the world hit you with the shock treatment at the beginning of the movie.

Start with something unexpected say something that no one was expecting you to say.

Your audience is not uninformed so you need to make sure when you're using the shock treatment when

you're using the shock treatment.

Align your opening with your presentation.

So let me give you an example.

If I stand in front of a group of salesmen who in here send at least a hundred thousand dollars worth

the material last year stand up right now

that's shock treatment.

No one expects to be called out on the carpet in front of people verbal or nonverbal but it works.

As a result of having a plan plan first shock treatment second and these are the four ways the four

amazing ways that it works best.

Sanctuary works either with storytelling a good story a good short story will do it every time.

Second is to use something that's interesting or surprising statistically interesting or surprising

statistics.

Talking to a group of religious people you know what eight out of 10 people would go to church if somebody

invited them.

But guess what.

Only 2 percent of all church goers nationwide actually invite people to church shock treatment using

statistics.

Number three would be a permitted shock them by lighting a match or juggling.

Now I know this is extreme and I know those are two extremes but I'm trying to push you to the limit

where you will see that it requires you getting outside of yourself and doing something that will get

your audience to focus as you well the was something spectacular and the last one at least a quick joke.

Quick and to the point something hilarious.

So use these skills to practice these practices and meet me in the next section because we are going

deeper now we've got the shock treatment done.

Now you're ready to do a presentation.

You know how to start off with some powerful tools and some positives.

Now we're going to jump in to engaging your audience because after these shock you need to bring them

in to your world.

That's what we're talking about the next class.

It is a powerful lesson.

Don't miss it.

Click below continue with me.

You're going to enjoy this lesson.

Bring your notebook.

You're going to need it.

Cecil.