Body Language from your hands?

Body language is the combination of messages conveyed by all parts of your body. Your hands are certainly a noticeable and powerful channel for your body messages. Study this video of Allan Pease speaking at the TEDx Macquarie University. 

What might your hands say about you?



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Sloppy TEDx Presentation Opening

"Hi Everyone, ah, Thank you for your time today. It’s, ah, very daunting to get up here after those wonderful talks this afternoon. Ah, I’m here to talk to you about the next generation of the Internet, the way we see it, ah, in particular, the mobile internet, um, I have mobile internet here with my notes, (held up his phone) hopefully the mobile internet keeps working …"

He continued his talk with many more ums and aahs. I wondered if he had prepared and rehearsed his presentation. He cleared up that question by admitting that he had created his presentation on his phone while on the plane. Clearly, he didn’t rehearse.

He seemed proud of that lack of preparation and yet the TEDx organizers still let him speak.

Naturally, I couldn’t stand listening to anymore. I quit that TEDx video after 2 minutes…

There was nothing in his opening to grab our attention, demonstrate that we should listen to him or even respect him.

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How to Create Interest and Connect with Anyone

TEDx video of Sam Horn as she demonstrates how to use Intrigue to create interest and connect. You might need to watch this at least twice. The first time, enjoy the presentation. The next time, note the points and notice the techniques she uses to deliver her presentation.

In particular, notice how she:

• made her messages easy to remember
• grabbed the attention of the audience
• engaged the audience
• used entertaining quotes from celebrities
• employed the magic of threes
• open and closed effectively
• made it easy to remember her points
• hardly talked about herself
• offered practical tools you can use immediately

First time - enjoy the presentation, then watch again.


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How to look and sound impressive without saying anything important...

Masterful demonstration of style while mocking substance.

This entertaining TEDx Talk is worth watching more that once to make note of the elements of style. Enjoy - it's less than six minutes.

 

 


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Open your presentation with a startling fact...

Notice the precise choice of words in his opening. They grab attention and set the context of his presentation. Nicely done.

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Steven Pinker at TED - a poor presentation...

Steven Pinker - pretty much reads his notes from his book "The Stuff of Thought"

I enjoyed reading his book and recognized most of his talk from his book. Unfortunately I found his presentation difficult to follow because his key message wasn't clear. What was his point? He clearly read his presentation which means he wasn't talking with his audience. He was simply reading notes from his book to them - as if they were children.

Many insightful authors and writers are lousy presentations because writing and speaking are different skills sets.

In my option this was a good example of a a terrible presentation.

However, I would read his next book.

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