4 Steps to fine-tune your speech

1. 4 Steps to fine-tune your speech 2007 Toastmasters International District 67 English prepared speech champion Hubert Yuo

2. Don’t write your speech yet! (Head) • Audience-Oriented • Human Emotion-oriented • Personal stories-oriented

3. Audience-Oriented • What’s in it for me? if you were the audience, what’s your expectation? • Purpose of your speech? Entertain, Persuade, Inform, Inspire • Background check list Education, Gender, Age, Profession, Taboo… The point? Fulfill what the audience want

4. Human Emotion-Oriented • 6 Emotions Happiness, sadness, anger, disgust, surprise, and fear. • Sensations Hear, see, smell, taste, and touch. • Catch their heart first, if you still have time, leave them ONE clear message. The point? Find what makes you ___, find your own way to tell it.

5. Personal Stories-Oriented • Collect your stories Learn the skills from others and find your own material. • Puzzle up your stories Re-assemble your stories to match your points. • Learn more from special program “Breaking the code” The point? It is the best vehicle to carry your message!

6. You are about to start • When you want to send a letter, you need 3 things… Letter as your “passion” Address as your “goal” Stamp as your “persistence” Do more withL A S

7. Stage 1 “Passion” as your letter • Say it from your “Heart” what’s your burning desire? If you have 7 mins to tell the world a message, what will that be?

8. What you have? Your mind set? Things that we didn’t notice Treasure what you have Optimistic Pessmistic Half is fall Half is empty Where Does Ideas Come From? • Find extraordinary from the ordinary Ordinarything Extraordinarymeaning

9. Respectable Define the True Meaning of you Reality Extension meaning Distinguished Toastmaster Distinguished Taiwan member DTM Reinforce or Break it Reinforce or Break it Ordinary thing Extraordinary meaning Stick to it Letter, address and stamp So close to us Reality Extension meaning Stick to the letter Stick to your goal STAMP Where Does Ideas Come From?

10. Echo effect Failing forward Reality Extension meaning Daily conversation Failures in our life Ouch Reinforce or Break it Ordinary thing Extraordinary meaning Reality Extension meaning Hide the real shoes Step in one’s shoes Start from a story To be in someone’s position Shoes Reinforce or Break it Where Does Ideas Come From?

11. Where Does Ideas Come From? • Find extraordinary from the ordinary -Creative ideas Preferred -Break the rules -Quotations -Think upside down -Break through

12. Try Another Way of Thinking Train sound I think I can Earth and sun What really moves? Second chance Beauty and the Beast Cha-Chin Validate Hot pot all kinds of soups in our life The point? Something that exist give you the advantage to connect with your audience

13. Now you have great material and then? Maximize your impact

14. Breaking the Code… 1.Lecturing 2.personal side story 3.famousSupport 4.quotation 5.personal main stories

15. Breaking the Code… 1Lecturing2personal side story3famousSupport 4quotation 5personal main stories My original structure 55111313151115…24 Darren’s world championship structure 123451355121341521111 My final structure 123451355121341511111

16. Great message Lasting impact with best words Efficient communication with less words How to Edit Your Speech? • Do more with LESS From Words to Sentence, From Sentence to Paragraphs • Crafting to make it better • Write in 5 and say it in 7

17. Now you have great material and you maximize your impact and then? “Humorize” it

18. The Moment that Connect • Humor elements are must but… Racist, Disease, Gross images and Dirty words are NOT recommended • What makes you laugh? • How does things work? • Reality affect your humor • 60% reality/ 40% made up • 60% humor/ 40%exaggeration

19. What Makes Them Laugh?

20. How Does Things Work?

21. Comedy Formulas • Setup/Punch • Comparisons • Similes • Observations • Mimicking • List making • Call backs Refer to the book written by Judy Carter “Standup Comedy”

22. What is SETUP / PUNCH? • The “Punch” is where the audience laughs. The “Setup” is the one or so lines leading to the punch. • Example: SETUP: “At my gym they have free weights” PUNCH: “So I took them home”

23. What is Comparison? • Comparing one subject against another is a simple and very effective way of organizing your material.. Example: SETUP: (Then) “I was so close to lose my virginity” PUNCH: (Now) “I mean my dignity.”

24. What is Similes? • A simile is where one object is compared to another. Similes are very powerful tools because they create pictures. Similes are usually introduced with “It’s like…” • Example: SETUP: “Sex when you’re married is like going to a 7-11” PUNCH: “There’s not much variety, but at 3 in the morning, it’s always there.”

25. What is Observations? • In the dictionary, the definition of an observation is “Close examination, especially of natural phenomena.” Observations are where the comic tries to make sense out of a non-sensical world. • Example: “Have you ever noticed that your garbage weighs more than your groceries?”

26. What is Mimicking? • To mimic, means to “act out” the people you talk about. Become them. Mimic their voices, their body language. People love transformations. Instead of talking about your mom, talk about her as if you are her!!! • Example: Captain's show. Loosen your seat belt, Washroom, Don’t leave your staff,

27. What is List Making? • Lists make good punchlines. There are different ways you can use lists to make people laugh. The first way is with the “List of three.” The first two have something in common (setup) and the last one is the unexpected (punch) • Example: “I like to think of myself as a woman of European influence: (1) makeup by Germaine Monteil (2) nails by Faberge…(3)body by Haagen-Dazs.”

28. What is Callbacks? • A callback is when you make a reference, later in your act, to something you said earlier. • Examples? What do you hear today?

29. Comedy Formulas • Setup/Punch • Comparisons • Similes • Observations • Mimicking • List making • Call backs

30. Stage 2 “Goal” as your address • Rehearsing speeches by your “hand” and know what you can do beforehand you can’t just stay in the hatch and pray to be a chicken. Those are my proven strategies that you may consider trying.

31. Never to Be Out-Prepared • Expect the unexpected (Material) -Microphone (Be comfortable with your aid) -Recorder (audio or video tape yourself and watch it) -Dress (From head to toe) -Surrounding (outdoor? Stage? Restroom? How big?) -Emergency kit (battery, plan B, tapes, extra core) -stage time and sequence The point? Get prepared and get controlled

32. Never to Be Out-Prepared • Practice until you internalized it (Mental) -Mentors/Coach (make it your own way to present it!!!) -Make it your first priority(once in a life time) -Spot check (pick up and go!!!) -Visualize it(You have to see what you want to be) -Great cycle(handwork-pressure-compliments-p-h) The point? Minimize any possible mistakes

33. Stage 3 “Persistence” as your stamp • “Never, never, never give up” This is the secret of “Hubertous” The only way to send your letter to your destination is to stick your stamp and persevered until the tree of your hard work bear the fruit.

34. Never, Never, Never Give Up • Be like a stamp -Be a full time student (Good and bad things and things happened around you) -Be a life time learner (Extend your horizon to reinforce your message and material) -Be a servant teacher (There is always someone who is better than we are in one way or the other. Learn from them!!!)

35. Finally, You Know Why… • You know why you lost, improve it. • You know why they won, analyze it. • You know why you won, share it.

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