As a top professional motivational speaker, I’m a huge fan of motivational quotes. Here’s one (that is sometimes attributed to Warren Buffett): “Practice makes permanent, not perfect.” In truth, only proper practice makes perfect. Here are a few simple (and yet powerful) ideas that will put a stop to you wasting a stack of your invaluable time whenever you practice a speech (or any other type of formal presentation).

A Professional Motivational Speaker’s Five Best Tips

Tip 1: Make a start on your rehearsing in plenty of time. If you leave it too late to begin, you’re in the worst situation of all. You’ll have lost the sparkle of the extemporaneous speaker without acquiring the fluid delivery of the professional motivational speaker. And, as you stretch back into your memory to bring your presentation to mind, you’ll waver over your words. And so commence rehearsing as soon as possible. Remember, practicing a speech always takes longer than you anticipate. So begin straight away, today if you can.

Tip 2: (I learned next pointer from another expert professional motivational speaker.) Start the clock and see how long it takes to speak your first page of content, out loud. To be clear, I’m not advocating you deliver your subject matter as if actually before an audience, simply read it and time yourself. This easy exercise will give you a clear sense of roughly how many pages of subject matter you’ll need to fill your time slot. For example, if you find that you require four minutes and you’ve been given 40 minutes to speak then, plainly, you’re only going to have time to get through around ten pages of content.

Keep this in mind and you won’t fall into the trap of practicing 30 pages of content only to learn that you can only deliver a handful of the pages of subject matter you’ve prepared. This is both a gigantic waste of effort and makes you appear to be a beginner. Moreover, when faced with this dilemma, some speakers try to squash all their information into the time allotted by speaking mega-rapidly. Without a doubt, this compounds the problem.

Tip 3: Don’t memorize your material word-for-word like a script. That’s because reworking your material into a script format and then trying to make it appear conversational takes a lot of time. (This is even true for a professional motivational speaker with prior script writing experience.) Here’s the solution? Experience has taught me that a corporate speaker is most likely to get lost as he/she transitions between different chunks of material. Therefore, I advise you to learn by rote the arrangement of your subject matter blocks, but not the line-by-line wording within each one.

Tip 4: Videotape yourself. Most folks working on a presentation won’t pay attention this advice, which is a huge error of judgment. No doubt, it requires a tiny bit of planning. That said, it significantly trims down your overall prep time. – your speech. Pay special attention to eliminating verbal tics and distracting, repetitive gestures.

Tip 5: Never forget to do a technical rehearsal. (According to the professionals in motivational speaking, this step never fails to distinguish the professionals.) For example, don’t forget to practice with with the same type of microphone that you’ll be using on the day. The same holds true for the other technical aspects of your presentation, such as your laptop and projector remote.

Follow these ideas and then, when you step out in front of your audience, you’ll be able to concentrate on the essential thing, selling your message to the audience. Everyone will simply take for granted that you’re a professional motivational speaker. Good luck.

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