Developing a Powerful Talk with Mike Pacchione
The Speaker Lab Podcast
The Speaker Lab
4.8 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
One of the most intimidating aspects of becoming a speaker is developing a powerful talk. Here to help us is Mike Pacchione.
Mike is an incredible speaker who also helps Speaker Lab students to develop their talks. On this episode of The Speaker Lab, we get into details like why lists work well as a speech, how to figure out what lesson you're sharing with your audience, and how to take the pressure off yourself.
Join us to hear that and much more on today's edition of The Speaker Lab.
THE FINER DETAILS OF THIS SHOW:
- Why is a presentation like a math problem?
- What's the best way to get all of your ideas out of your head?
- When should you use case examples?
- How can you make your talk more versatile?
- Is it part of your job to make adjustments on the fly?
- What to never say at the end of your speech.
- Should you start with your best story?
- What does he do differently when giving a powerful talk virtually?
- And so much more!
EPISODE RESOURCES
- Mike Pacchione's web site
- Mike Pacchione on Twitter
- Mike Pacchione on Instagram
- Episode 263 with Mike Pacchione
- Episode 9 with Mike Pacchione
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| 0:51.1 | Hey, hey, what's up, Frank? Grant Baldwin here. Welcome back to the speaker lab podcast. |
| 0:54.6 | I'm thrilled to have you here with us today for episode 339 to hear my conversation with friend and colleague, Mr. Mike Pacione, about creating your talk. |
| 1:02.6 | So today we're going to be covering it all with Mike as we discussed starting and ending points for a presentation, organizing your thoughts into meaningful content, and then also ensuring that our message has a clear |
| 1:11.3 | destination you never want to leave the audience leaving going what was the point of that or what does |
| 1:16.0 | that matter or how does that apply to me now many of us have transitioned from face to face |
| 1:20.5 | to virtual events over the past year which brings its own set of challenges as we engage our audience |
| 1:24.6 | so mike's going to talk about what it looks like to be well prepared have the ability to adjust on the fly and the importance of how we engage our audience. So Mike's going to talk about what it looks like to be well prepared, |
| 1:28.0 | have the ability to adjust on the fly and the importance of how we want our audience to feel |
| 1:32.9 | when we are presenting and speaking. We're also going to be talking about how to process audience |
| 1:37.6 | feedback, make adjustments for in-person versus virtual to maximize the success of your talk. |
| 1:42.1 | Mike is just a huge wealth of knowledge, no matter where |
| 1:44.6 | you're at in your speaking career, you're going to have something that you're going to learn and take away from what he shares in this episode. So let's jump right in. Here's my conversation on creating your talk with Mike Pacione. Enjoy. Hey, as our friends. Graham Bolden here. Welcome back to the Speak Al podcast. So good to have you here with us today. Today we are |
| 2:01.0 | joined by a friend of the program, friend of our company here. Mike Pacione. Mike has been on |
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