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In today’s episode of The Speakers Life I’m in Singapore where I learned how to make your speeches more relatable to an audience using a powerful phrase.

 

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Have you ever gone to see a speaker and at the end of that event, you’re left asking yourself so what I had lots of things. I saw lots of different stories, lots of examples, but it didn’t really feel like it connected with me and my challenges. So I’m here today in Singapore. And the other night I was a talk by Jim Cathcart. Jim Cathcart legendary speaker, I interviewed him recently for international speakers site. And he said something very important that you have to do as a speaker, if you’re giving lots of stories and examples and your speeches is important. Every so often you take a pause, and you go, and here’s what this means for you. And here’s what this means for you. Because sometimes, as speakers, we can get overly kind of caught up in the story. So we get so excited about the story of the example the case study, that we forget to come back to the audience and say, Well, this is what this means to you. This is how this can help us solve your problem or your challenge or help you do something in a better way. So it’s a really important thing, just if you’re giving lots of examples in a speech in a presentation, always just take a little bit of a Every stop and say, and this is what this means for you. And in describe that, my name is James Taylor.

Today I’m speaking in Bangkok, Thailand but before I go onstage Alison Burns and I wanted to show you how to warm up your voice before you give a speech.

 

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Hey, it’s James Taylor, a keynote speaker on creativity, innovation and artificial intelligence. And today, we’re here in Bangkok, Thailand. I’m actually about to go on stage. I’m speaking for 200 people here as at M Academy. And I’m going to be talking about creativity and artificial intelligence. But I’m sitting in the green room just now here with Alison, my wife, who is also a fantastic vocal coach, and she’s having me run through my vocal exercises. Just now to tell tell us about some of the vocal exercises that you have me do before you go onstage? Well, your first vocal warmup is to get some moisture on your vocal cords and, and to get rid of the gluck as I call it. It’s the mucus that’s been building up so you want to get that clear to see what to do some soft descending hums. Always use a descending because descending is much kinder on your vocal cords. They You want to take some do some lip trills. A lip bubbles as well. Is weakening up all those articulators and I get your breath management. It’s not the breath control because you just want to just let your breathing your breathing happen to happen normally, but you want to have a little bit of breathe management. will accept that do for a second. And when you get when you told me is just to get your mouth moving. Tick Tock Tick Tock Tick Tock Tick, tock tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tick, tick, tock, tick tock, and then what was the other one, the tip of the tongue and the teeth and the lips, the tip of the tongue and the teeth and the little lips, the tip of the tongue and the teeth and the lips, get your mouth moving. So I’m going to be going on stage in a few moments time. Thank you awesome for giving me that all will help me that good little vocal warm up on stage. We have a great audience here today different companies all across Thailand, Southeast Asia. It’s gonna be a lot of fun.

Today I’m in Orlando, Florida and reminded why international speakers should tell international stories.

 

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Hey there, it’s James Taylor, keynote speaker and founder of SpeakersU. I’ve just come off stage speaking to about 2000 IT professionals, the closing keynote speaker at a conference. And I’m on my way now to go and speak in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. But I wanted to film this quick video just to remind you why it’s so important to use international examples and stories and case studies and also case studies from different industries in your speech, if you can, so the speech I just gave 2000 IT professionals that always keen to use different stories, different industries in different countries. I use a number of different ones there. And as I came offstage at 30 minutes after I’m offstage, I’m still meeting and talking with different attendees are coming up to me. One group of attendees came up to me, and they said, Hey, we’re from a company in the Netherlands. We’re headquartered in the Netherlands, a global company. And you mentioned a particular story there from the Netherlands. And so we’ve got us thinking, would you be interested in coming and keynoting conference next October. And then about 15 minutes after that. Another lady came up to me and she said, one of the examples that you use for us from our industry from the banking and finance industry, and it kind of got me thinking, your message and your your, your background, your experience ties really well into what we do. And this is our industry as well. Would you be interested in coming and speaking to an event we have for some of our senior leadership that we’re running in a few months time. So always try and use different countries and different industry examples in your presentations. And the only caveat I would say to this is that it has to serve the audience. So for today, I wouldn’t use those examples if it didn’t serve the audience and didn’t serve the story that I’m trying to tell. But if you are going to be telling stories, you have diversity in them have diversity in the countries and the industries and it will really serve you well. It’s about planting seeds all along the way. So when people hear you up on stage and say ah, he or she is They’ve mentioned my industry, they’re talking about my country. Maybe the speaker would be a great choice to come and speak our next event. My name is James Taylor. Thanks for watching.

Today’s episode of The Speakers Life, filmed in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, shares with you a powerful tip on how other speakers can help you prepare your speeches.

 

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Hey there, James Taylor here Today I’m in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. And I’m here speaking for one of the world’s largest technology companies, I want to share with you a powerful technique you can use in order to prepare for your next speech. So when this client booked me, I had spoken to them before. And I asked them, which speakers have you hired in the past you thought were really good. And he mentioned a couple of speakers, one of whom I knew, so I reached out to her speak, and I said, Hey, I’m going to be speak that same client a couple of weeks time, can you tell me a few things you thought were really powerful that you understood about that client you didn’t know before, before you spoke to them. That client recommended to me a book that was written by the CEO of this technology company, I’m going to be speaking for tomorrow. And I was then able to embed some of the ideas from that book into my keynote, so always make use of other speakers who have spoken for companies before to help you prepare for your next speech. My name is James Taylor.

In today’s episode, filmed at the RSA in London, I share a simple tip on how to prepare your speech and reduce stage nerves.

 

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Hey, this is James Taylor. And today I’m in London. And I’m actually preparing for some speeches I’m going to be giving next week in the Middle East. But I want to share with you a little technique that the speaker Hall of Fame speaker Sally Hogshead shared with me, in order to help you feel really comfortable and confident before you go on stage. So you know, that moment just before you go on stage, you thinking through your lines and thinking that first few moments on stage you’re going to be, you kind of sometimes would like a little prompt, but in that, Heather, the first part of the speech is going to work. So what Sally suggests and what I do, every time before I give a speech, is on the morning of speech, I’ll go and take a little photograph, or my PowerPoint slides all together. And on that power, that little photograph, it just has an overview of the flow of my slides. And just before I go up on stage, I’m standing at the side of the stage, often just looking down on my phone, looking at that photograph, and just I don’t need to ask you remember was in each of them, but it just gives me a sense of the flow and the transitions and where I want that. BI it just gives me that little bit extra confidence that I know what I need to do when I get onto the stage. So quick tip for you always make sure you take a little photograph of your slides and have them they are on your phone as a quick reminder before you go on stage.

In today’s episode of The Speakers Life, filmed in Brussels, I share the one request that every speaker should make to the AV team.

 

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So here I am today in just arrived in Brussels, in Belgium and I’m here to speakat a conference called The future is now let’s go for it.

So I mean here back in Brussels station on my way ticket train back over the channel again to London. And I want to share with you a little tip from really from today. So we had an AV check, which all went fine. We did our sound check. And then some of the speakers spoke before me I was a closing keynote speaker, we’re having some technical issues with their Av. So it’s always a good idea even though you do AV checks. Still, just to clarify with the AV engineers that they put fresh batteries charged fully charged batteries into ad packs if you’re using a lovely a mic or a headset mic, but also always ensure that you have a handheld mic sitting at the side of the stage just in case your your headset or your lovely a mic fails. Just a little quick tip for the day to ensure that you can give a great performance on stage

 

Today’s episode of The Speakers Life, filmed in Abu Dhabi in the UAE, is about what Frank Sinatra can teach speakers about storytelling.

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Hey James Taylor here and today I’m in Abu Dhabi in the UAE grab just be speaking.
I want to share with you a technique that I learned from the singer Frank Sinatra on how to give a better speech. So there’s a technique in speaking is called an apology tour and apology is essentially a grace note you that you place this kind of sounds a little bit of key over out of place before the main chord, or the main notes that you looked into place. And the way that we use this in speaking is we can often open a speech or presentation by telling a story of night will record a cold open story that puts the audience a little bit of balance. It creates tension in the presentation that you’re looking to do, but like an apology tour, then you relieve that tension. case with a chord. But in the case of speaking, you then relieve that tension by telling the final part of the story of how that story comes back around. Again, if you watch lots of TV shows, they use a version like this all the time and storytelling, we call it opening and closing loops. So character, something may happen to a character in one episode, but only that’s part of the story only gets resolved a few episodes later. So I would encourage you to try and add some tension into your presentations by doing that kind of apology, a tour. But then what you want to do is you want to then release that tension and relieve that tension and for the audience. We actually like a little bit of tension is quite good to do that. It keeps us on the edge of our seats and makes the audience want to lean in to your presentation. My name is James Taylor. Thanks for watching.

In today’s episode of The Speakers Life I’m in Barcelona and wanted to share how to find local stories to share in your speeches.

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Hey, there it’s James Taylor. And today I’m in Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain. So I want to share with you this idea of how to route your speech. So today I’m in Catalonia and Spain. And I’m talking to a group of accountants. I’m always on the lookout for local stories that relate to a place. So last night, I speak I speak about creativity, I went to a cafe called the four cats cafe here in Barcelona. And it’s where the castle used to, used to go when he was young, hang out, talk with his other kind of artists, friends, and brainstorm ideas, essentially. And so I took a photo of myself with some of the staff learned about the place and stuff told me some inside stories, and I’m going to use those stories in my speech today, including some of the photography from it, and and then help kind of bring it together because talking about this as I give the third place about this idea of how places themselves can be creative, so I can link the story of the castle or the four cats cafe with the kind of what these accountants are doing today in what we call their innovation labs. So always be on the lookout for little short, short stories or vignettes that you can embed into your story to help route your speech, your keynote in the physical place and what you’re getting in. My name is James Taylor. Thanks for watching.

In today’s episode of The Speakers Life I’m in Dubai where I’m the sales keynote speaker for one of the world’s largest technology companies.

 

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So I’m here on… I’ve spoken this morning for one of the largest kind of technology companies in the world. It was their sales strategy kickoff event. They’re planning on their planning for the next few years. And it was great event we were getting everyone inspired sparking their creative juices today to help them go into their their strategy meetings this afternoon. And and now, I am moving from where I spoke this morning, which is the four seasons in Dubai, on to another hotel because I have a very early flight tomorrow morning. And for the rest of the afternoon, my next speech is going to be in Barcelona, which I fly it directly. So what I’m going to do this afternoon and this evening is just going to make some final tweaks and changes to that speech. Go over it rehearse it requires come in overnight. Some speaking inquiries deal with those today. I don’t know how Please find a pool and enjoy some of the side is hot weather.

 

In today’s episode of The Speakers Life I share a simple tip on how to stay healthy as a travelling speaker.

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Hi there, James Taylor, keynote speaker and founder of the SpeakersU. Today I want to talk to you about how to stay healthy on the road. As a professional speaker, your professional speaking one of the things that we have to do with professional speaking is we’re doing a lot of long haul flights. That’s resulting sometimes in jet lag. And often the food options that we have on planes and at hotels and venues is not that good for a lot of fried food. So how do we ensure that we stay healthy, and we can have a very long term sustainable career as a speaker, I asked this question the other day to Dr. Joyce Carols. She is a speaker who works with a lot of high performance athletes, for example, and she shared with me her triple seven rule. And it stands for this first of all, try and get seven glasses of water per day into your system. When you’re traveling, especially long haul flights, it can be very dehydrating on your system. And as a result, when you get there up on stage, you find yourself a bit dry a little bit croaky also is not good for your skin and your general health. So if you do have enough walk in the system. So try and hydrate all the time we would travel around with a bottle that you’re filling up all the time and try and get the seven glasses of water per day. Secondly, you want to try and ensure you get seven hours of sleep per day. This can be challenging when you’re doing maybe multiple flights and stopovers and you’re there’s danger of getting jet lag as part of that as well. So something you can do here is when you get on a plane if you especially if you’re going for a long haul flight, you might decide to maybe Miss meals on and just tell the stewardess stewardess, hey, I’m a good I want to sleep on this flight. Just please don’t interrupt me on this flight. And that allows you to get some better sleep over the course of the flight. Obviously, don’t drink caffeine, alcohol on flights as well that will help you often sleep at the same time. There’s other tools we can use things like smart watches, which tell us how many hours of sleep but the quality of our sleep that we’re getting. And there’s there’s apps for our phone we can get like time shifter, which allow us to get ready especially for the long haul flights, but always be very good at being able to steal sleep. So if you’ve got an opportunity there for to get 30 minutes sleep or an hour sleep, train take especially when you’re on the road. And then the final seven is ensuring that you do seven minutes of intense exercise every day for seven minutes doesn’t sound like a lot. But that’s the intensity that’s really important and is great tools being able to do there’s lots of online apps you for your phone, which do like seven minutes, workout style apps, and they can just take you through some very simple exercise. You don’t need any weights or anything complicated to be able to do even do it in your hotel room. And a useful rule of thumb here is it when you go and check into your hotel. Immediately you drop your bags, put on your workout stuff, go and do that seven minutes either in your hotel room, in the gym at the hotel even go out for a run. That triple seven rule is a really good way of remembering how to keep yourself healthy, and how to build a sustainable career as a speaker. My name is James Taylor. Thanks for watching.