How to Start a Speech

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[dameanvil]

1. tell a concise story
- the story has a beginning, middle, end, and the lesson-learned
- the best stories show transformation and growth
2. ask the audience some key questions
- the questions should set up the main message of your presentation
- consider asking 2 or 3 connected questions
3. share a powerful quotation
4. share an interesting fact or statistic
5. use a visual illustration

Tips:
- develop your opening after you've created a draft of the rest of the presentation
- combine openings

[sbyers]

Thank you for the tips! Your approach to these tips makes them simple and easy to use. Your calm enthusiasm is encouraging!

[ZebralterMedical]

So grateful to connect with your channel, learning a lot that will catapult me to the next level!! Thank you so much

[PrinceSinghNet]

I loved the ideas. Now, I'll use these openings in my speeches. Thanks for sharing!🙏

[vlthluz]

FOR THE SECOND TIME IM GONNA WATCH THIS VIDEO AGAIN FOR THE ASMEPPS COMPETITION THIS

[kylerosesellorin]

thank you for making a pdf, i really apreciate it

[CarlKwan]

This is great! Always love how you organize points and give examples.

[bikingscape]

From experience, it's not easy to take time away from preparing publications and other academic tasks to produce creative, quality, public-facing content like this.

Thank you for making time for these videos, Alex! I'll be speaking during part of a program at church this weekend, and suggestion #4 helped spark a idea my talk needed.

[johngagne]

Excellent!! Very positive words!! Love it !!

[joelatiga]

Good day! Alex thanks a lot your nice vvideo presentation. God bless

[martinhosilveira]

this has been so helpfull hopefully i get it

[brukotongbrukotong]

i really need this because i have a speech tomorrow 😢

[fabioquintana]

You are the best communication Coach! Congrats for your channel it will hit 1 million subscribers very soon. Thank you for your help to improve my communication skills. God bless you Alex.

[wesleydouglas]

Alex, I really appreciate your curating these tips for Best Practices of Opening a Speech. Really concise. To you question about effective openings (and this may fall under #5 to Use Visuals) I have seen speakers be announced, then the stage goes dark and a short but powerful video package is shown that relates to the topic. With the video, the full stereo sound and the darkening of the stage, this can be a very effective opening that you probably have seen. Thank you again for your great content.

[beautytarisma]

Thank you very much for these straightforward and detailed tips.

[veloriachimamanda]

Thanks Alex!
These tips are so helpful, I also identified some of the mistakes I made while opening a speech in the past.

I'm sure gonna implement them in my next speeching engagement.

[sandraohara]

You talked about so much, which helped me. How about simplifying for young middle school students?

[Bb-rgoq]

New subscriber here! Thank you for your good works!

[md.]

Hi Alex, great thanks for tips as well as for PDF file

[Lroy]

Great insights and so many things I learned! Love the story part especially, such great points!