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I was asked the other day at a party what was the one qualification every professional speaker must have? Today I’m in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to keynote a conference and on the flight over I’ve been mulling this question. My answer may surprise you.

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• Qualifications for professional speakers
• CSP
• Why speaking is like learning guitar
• From the basics to mastery
• How can i improve my craft?
• How can i learn more about my topic?
• How can i add my unique take on it?
• Curiosity

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Hi, James Taylor he a keynote speaker on creativity, innovation and artificial intelligence. And the founder of SpeakersU. Today I’m in Riyadh and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. And someone asked me a question, do they identify the asked me, James, what qualifications Do you need to be a professional speaker? And it kind of stumped me. I had to think about it for a little bit. You know, this person I was speaking to, he was a doctor, and he was a space specialist type of doctor. And obviously, he had to go for many, many years of qualifications and study in order to be able to practice medicine he practices and as a speaker, it’s slightly different. Now, there are definitely qualifications that you can have, I think there’s only really one that is the most important. You know, there are qualifications you can get like a CSP a certified speaking professional, and different speakers, associations around the world have different types of qualifications like that you can get to really show that you are an experienced speaker, professional speaking. These are great things to do.

Get. However, if you’re just starting out, I think actually the most important qualification is curiosity. The other day, they interviewed an HR professional who had previously worked at both Google and Facebook. And she asked what is the one thing that you’re looking for in people you take off take into these organizations? And she said the number one skill for her is curiosity. I think it’s really applies a speaker. You see the way I think about speaking, it’s a little bit like learning a musical instrument like learning guitar. It’s actually pretty simple to get some basic course and know learn three chords on the guitar, and to make a sand to play that first first June, however, it takes an entire lifetime to really master the guitar. So speaking is similar. It’s it’s actually we speak every day, you know, to go and give a speech even though you’re quite a, you know, a big thing. It’s your first speech, but to get up there to go and speak on stage.

It’s not the is not the q&a qualifications for that, apart from this ability to be curious about the world, and specifically curious about your topic, and your audience and what’s important to them. So I want to give you a couple of little pieces of advice just now. In terms of how to remain curious. The first thing is you need to have curiosity for your topic area, you don’t have to be the greatest expert in a particular topic area to go and speak on it. You just need to have a sense of curiosity and passion for learning about this topic. Ideally, you want to know more than your audience knows. But if you think about it, like yesterday, I spoke to an audience of about 1000 people were attending that event. And so there’s gonna be doing oldest know much more, but lots of different things than I do. So I have to focus on not just knowing my topic, but what is my approach was my unique take my unique message in relation to this particular particular topic, and it’s just takes time to reflect on whatever topic area you’re learning about. So be curious about learning about your topic.

Always be learning be reading, reading, like this research and whatever your topic areas. Secondly, be curious about your craft. Continue to be looking to develop your craft. If you’re a guitar player, you’d be practicing your skills every day. What are you doing as a speaker every single day to get better at your craft? So every time you go in speech, you can make that speech at just that little bit better than the speech you gave before. And finally, be curious about your audience. What is important to them, what drives them what their hot buttons what’s going to get them excited? What subjects you need to maybe steer away from the movie cover that a bit boring the other people have done that you can’t really provide a unique take on so curiosity that is the number one qualification I think that you need. As a speaker now I’m patch bias. I speak about creativity and curiosity as part of, of creativity by really think it applies. So the next time someone asked you, what qualification do you have for being a Speaker you can just say, I have my natural curiosity. My name is James Taylor. Thanks for watching.

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In actor Michael Caine’s autobiography he shared a great piece of advice on overcoming a fear of public speaking that is encapsulated by the phrase “The Rehearsal Is The Work”. In today’s episode of The Speakers Life I’m in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and sharing ideas on how to be relaxed when speaking on stage.

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Hi, it’s James Taylor. He a keynote speaker on creativity, innovation and artificial intelligence and the founder of SpeakersU. Today I’m in Riyadh in Saudi Arabia I would just speaking and event here yesterday and a question I’m sometimes asked by people come up to me afterwards. And they said to me, James, you look so natural on stage, it looks like this The easiest thing in the world for you being up there speaking. So I want to talk to you about how to look relaxed, how to be relaxed on stage when you’re giving your presentation, so you can give you your best possible speech The other day I was reading a book is by Michael Caine. And it’s the book is called Blue, the bloody doors off, I just want to be famous phrases. And in that book, he said something really interesting that I think could be applied not just to actors, but also to professional speakers. And in that quote, that line he said, he said these words, he said, rehearsal is the work performance is the the relaxation. So repeat again. So he said, rehearsal is the work performance is the relaxation. And I when I read that, I totally understood what he meant. Because let’s take the event I just did. For example, the reason I was able to look very relaxed on stage is because I done so much preparation in advance in terms of different preparation I personally do I’ll have an event with the client was called a pre event co where we just can go through a checklist, I have to make sure that I really understand what the objectives are of the client and what the goals are, who the audience is going to be at that particular day.

Then while also do is I will research the client itself, I’ll do my own primary research, I’ll often run the the organization I’m speaking to, in their social media accounts through an artificial intelligence to give me a little bit more of a psychometrics of the audience at the same time, and then I actually go into writing and building the speeches self and I have to get to a point any speech doesn’t matter what the speech is that I can rehearse that I can give that speech in my sleep, it doesn’t matter whether I’m if I’m jet lag, I might have a cold and it may be really tied, it doesn’t matter when I hit the stage, it almost needs to just be it just needs to just come, I just know I don’t need to think about the words I need to know your lines as an actress. So I need to know it so well, I also need to know it to the point where if I’m using some type of visual presentation that that I don’t have to rely on the slides because the technology can sometimes fail sometimes things can go wrong. So I need to be able to know that the speech so well, it doesn’t require me looking any slides and quietly having any kind of visual prompts I could, I could give that speech in my sleep. That means that when I go up on stage, I could be completely relaxed because I can then react to what the audience is doing, I can feel the energy on the stage and just really be in the moment be present the idea presentation being present. Another couple of little tips for how to be more relaxed on stage is I highly recommend doing some type of physical work in the morning for me as yoga so I can just relax my body so my mind is already pretty relaxed because I know what I’m going to be saying I know my speech I know inside out by also need to work on my body. And that requires things that I do yoga, for example, somebody would like to go for a run in the morning or nice walk, just really just relax into your day if you can, ideally you want to get to the event the day before, if you’re if you’re speaking early in the morning, especially for international speech. Another thing you could do is look after your voice in the morning I’ll be doing my my warm up exercises vocal exercises in the shower. But you can already hear my voice is now I haven’t done any exercises this morning, unfortunately. So you can already hear a little bit deeper a little bit can grab their just now. So warm up your body warm up your voice if you especially if you’re going to speak first thing in the morning. So that’s that’s my advice for you. In order to be relaxed on stage, you have to prepare that the rehearsal is the work that’s the thing you really need to spend a huge amount of time working in developing. No one’s ever going to see any of that work that’s behind the scenes as backstage essentially. So when you get up on stage the performance is the relaxation you should enjoy it relax you should just be in the moment be present. So from here in Riyadh, the kind of gave me a beautiful award here last night as well. beautiful country. I’m looking forward to going slowly in the country. today. I wish you all the best with your your own speaking. My name is James Taylor. Thanks for watching.

How would you like to get paid to travel the world to share your message and expertise? How did it feel to get paid 5000 10,000 $25,000 to travel first class and stay in five star hotels in exotic locations. What I’ve just described is the lifestyle of international keynote speakers. And you can join me and over 100 of the world’s best keynote speakers, and speaker trainers as they reveal their secrets to becoming a better speaker and getting booked to travel the world as a professional keynote speaker and Bestival. As it’s an online summit You don’t even have to leave home plus it’s not going to cost you a single dollar euro pound ruble peso or yen. If you sign up for the free pass at International Speakers Summit calm you’re going to receive access to never seen before video interviews over 40 of the world’s best keynote speakers. In addition to this, you’ll get access to archived interviews from some of last year’s summit guests. So in total, you’ll be able to watch in depth interviews with over 100 incredible speakers and speaker trainers. You’ll have to find a theme for your keynote presentation how to craft your

Talk how to get booked as a speaker, how much to charge and ways to get paid to speak on stages all over the world. So what are you waiting for? Head over to internationalspeakerssummit.com now

 

What’s the difference between an opening keynote speaker versus a closing keynote speaker? In todays episode, filmed in Abu Dhabi, I talk about how giving an opening keynote speech is different from giving a closing keynote speech.

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Hi there it’s James Taylor he a keynote speaker on creativity, innovation and artificial intelligence and the founder of SpeakersU. Today I’m in Abu Dhabi in beautiful United Arab Emirates, and I met the Jumeirah. The mirror towers hotel yesterday I gave the opening keynote speech at a conference there and a question I’m often asked is what’s difference between being an opening keynote speaker and a closing keynote speaker really this slightly different roles you have to fulfill and I I’m always happy to do to do either of those roles. Often I’m brought in as an opening keynote speaker, but sometimes I’ll be I’ll be coming in as the closing keynote speaker that you have to do slightly different things as a speaker, depending on which which one you’ve been brought in to do as an opening keynote speaker. I see the role there really is to set the mood and so they help going to really set the overall theme for the event itself obviously I’m coming in I’m talking about creativity I’m talking about change feature work artificial intelligence those those technological disruption.

So often that will be the theme of the event anyway. And so you coming in as the opening keynote speaker obviously started off high energy you want to have that you want to be inspiring. You want everyone to be excited about what they’re what they’re going to be going through, because whatever you’re talking about is often the seniors coming through multiple events throughout the course of the next few days, or even if it’s just a one day event. So the opening keynote speaker, I would say needs to be maybe a little bit sometimes bit more intense, entertaining, thought provoking, inspiring of new CEO of thought leaders coming into the opening keynote speaker, the closing keynote speaker is a slightly different role and no less valid actually and it’s I think some of my favorite speakers are closing keynote speakers because the closing keynote speaking you have another challenge sometimes as a closing keynote speaker the audience is mentally starting to think about having to leave the event they’ve had a great few days they’re thinking about the flight that have to casual what need to do in the office when they get back into the office.

So it’s a little bit more challenging to bring people back into the room mentally, sometimes as a closing keynote speaker, what I love doing as a closing keynote speakers, I love being there for the few days before my speech is closing, because it helps me understand the audience. I go into all the other sessions I’m listening to all the other sessions so when I do a closing keynote, what I’m doing is I obviously come in and give my my keynote itself but I’m I’m there to help put all these strands together from all these other sessions and help help everyone really make sense of what they’ve learned over the past few days while the experience together and also I would say the closing keynote speaker the energies that might sometimes have dropped because it’s towards the end of event so part of your role is to get that energy back into the room and you want to have people leave without saying wow, that was a great event. I think we covered all these different things and I found really inspired and now I want to go and start putting this stuff into work so sometimes with closing keynote speaker.

I’ll add slightly more actionable is next steps. So I’ll say something like, okay, so tomorrow morning, when you get back into the office, here are the three things I want you to do. Or here’s the one thing that you want to do in order to take some of these things that you’ve been learning over the past few days and start implementing them in your business on your organization. So you’re a little bit more actionable. So opening keynote speaker closing keynote speaker, if you’re if you’re a great speaker, you should be doing both. I don’t think there’s there’s one is better than the other. I think they just slightly different. My name is James Taylor, and I wish you great success in your speaking.

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Who do you serve as a keynote speaker? Today I’m in Abu Dhabi in the UAE and in this episode of The Speakers Life I explore why it’s important to understand the different stakeholders in an event.

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• Know your client
• Serve the message
• Do you inhabit your speech?
• Understanding the audience
• The client for your speech
• Event organisers
• Speaker bureaus

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Hi, James Taylor, keynote speaker on creativity, innovation and artificial intelligence. And the founder of SpeakersU. Today, I’m in beautiful Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. I’ve just spoken an event here I was brought in to come and give the keynote at an event. And an interesting thing came up in the process of preparing for this speech and giving the speech yesterday, it was this idea that the lawyers often refer to, which is know your client. Sometimes when you’re brought into speaking event, there will be almost like multiple parties, multiple stakeholders in any particular event. And this event was no different. So for example, you might have the bureau that initially booked you to come into speaking event like this one, you will have maybe an events company whose job is to ensure that the event is successful, looks great, sounds great. You will have the client people that are actually paying the check or paying your fee as a speaker, you will have the audience and then there will be different parties in the audience as well. And obviously there’s yourself

Where do you use it as a speaker and all this? So this is kind of my order importance, I guess, on knowing your client who the WHO THE END client is, who you are you there to serve. And my answer might be slightly unusual. There’s an expression in music industry, which is the singer should serve the song,

which means that as a singer, as a performer, your ultimate responsibility, especially if you’re a jazz singer is to serve the song if someone wrote this song, your job is to really embody the message that’s in that song was trying to get the emotion that you’re trying to get across.

There was this great phrase where it says that people will forget what you say but they should never forget what what you how you make them feel. And when you go and give a give a speech I believe your first client almost is the message is the message that you’re trying to

communicate to convey to the audience that message could be encapsulated by a field. It can be encapsulated by a mental thing that you just want them to leave, just remembering it echoing the next days and weeks and years. So I, I’d say number one client for me is the message in my case is about creativity and what I call super creativity. So that’s, that’s for me as a number one client after that, for me, the next client is yourself as the speaker. If you if you work up a speech and you can’t even please yourself with a speech if you can’t feel Wow, that’s, that’s, that’s really good. That’s really strong, then you probably shouldn’t be up there on stage giving the speech you have to be able to be happy with the with what you’re saying and the speech you’re giving. And this can sound a little bit self confident or maybe arrogant or egotistical. And it’s not meant to be that at all and the

The idea is you, you have to really embody what you’re saying. And you’re there to have integrity to have truth in what you’re saying. So it’s very, very important that when you get there on stage, first of all is the message that’s number one thing you’re trying to serve that message then you’re trying to have integrity with what you’re saying. So you fully embody that message as the next most important thing and then we have the actual audience themselves and it’s an interesting thing the oldest is not always the same as the client so the audience of those people whose eyes are looking up at you whose ears a listening to you who are taking in this information that you’re you’re saying on stage. And so when whenever I’m doing my pre event calls and working at my speeches, after I knew I’ve got my core message there, and after I’ve kind of gone through it myself, but why I’m happy with this, then I have to do a check and feel well, based upon the conversations I’ve been having about what the client want and I also use things like artificial intelligence to look at this this set

The audience as well in advance, will the speech work for the audience will this audience enjoy it is enough interaction going on all the things that you should be learning as a good speaker. So you’re looking to serve them next the audience that, but they’re not that often the first. So you’re thinking message and you’re thinking yourself your own integrity, you serve as a speaker, then you’re thinking about the audience serving that audience. And then after that, then you’re thinking about the client themselves. Now, I put the audience about the client. And the reason I say that is because sometimes the client says, We want x y Zed, and they really feel that but as a speaker, if you’ve had enough experience speaking, you should be able to take the end triangulate it a little bit, I think what but what does the audience really want you have experienced on being on the stage of being there, you’re the person with the microphone with the light on them. You have that responsibility for that 30 minutes, 45 minutes, however long it is to serve that audience. So you have to have real focus on that and after you have the audience you

have obviously the client themselves and the clients will be giving you lots of information about what they want. When you do your pre event call you probably going through a checklist, making sure there’s key things they want you to say, maybe there’s things that you, they want you to kind of avoid saying in the Middle East, just as there’s certain things, you have to be quite careful about doing this cultural aspects as well. So after you’ve thought about the client, then it comes probably to the Bureau and the Bureau’s speak of yours might not be happy for me saying this. But in the overall list of things they are, they are further down because if the audience is happy, then the client is happy. And if the client is happy, then the bureau will be happy. So you have to cascade it down like that. So let me just give you a quick recap again, number one is the message that’s what you’re there to serve. Number two is you you’ve got to be happy with your speech if you don’t have that passion if you don’t embody what you’re saying.

Stage why you up there, then it’s got to be the audience. And then we have the client. And then we have the bureau bureau this, this, this brought you in as well. And there may be between the Bureau and the client, they may be an event company as well. So they sit, they sit kind of between the client and the bureau. So hopefully that’s been useful for you. knowing who your client is, as I say, it’s it’s complex, not complicated. So there’s multiple parties going on something it’s called stakeholder management and Matt in MBA type speak, but I hope this is served. You hope this is giving you some ideas for your next speech. When you sometimes you have those conversations and feel that the audience is wanting one thing and the clients wanting another and the beer is wanting another event companies wanting another thing. If you work your way through it in that order, then you’re going to give a great speech. My name is James Taylor. Thanks for watching. How would you like to get paid to travel the world to share your message and expertise? How did it feel to get paid 5000 10,000

$25,000 to travel first class and stay in five star hotels in exotic locations. What I’ve just described is the lifestyle of international keynote speakers. And you can join me and over 100 of the world’s best keynote speakers, and speaker trainers as they reveal their secrets to becoming a better speaker and getting booked to travel the world as a professional keynote speaker and Bestival. As it’s an online summit You don’t even have to leave home plus it’s not going to cost you a single dollar euro pound ruble peso or yen. If you sign up for the free pass at International Speakers Summit calm you’re going to receive access to never seen before video interviews over 40 of the world’s best keynote speakers. In addition to this, you’ll get access to archived interviews from some of last year’s summit guests. So in total, you’ll be able to watch in depth interviews with over 100 incredible speakers and speaker trainers. You’ll have to find a theme for your keynote presentation how to craft your

Talk how to get booked as a speaker, how much to charge and ways to get paid to speak on stages all over the world. So what are you waiting for? Head over to internationalspeakerssummit.com now

 

The other day I was speaking in India and a member of the audience asked this question…”what is the difference between speaking versus training?”. In today’s episode of The Speakers Life (filmed in Beirut, Lebanon) I share what I believe the key differences are.

• Professional Speakers of India
• Becoming a Professional Speaker
• Becoming a Professional Trainer
• Keynote vs Workshop
• The 70/30 Rule
• Transmitting vs Conversing

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Hi, it’s James Taylor, keynote speaker on creativity, innovation and artificial intelligence and the founder of SpeakersU. You today I’m in here in Beirut, Lebanon, this beautiful city that just sits on the water here. And a question I was asked a few days ago speaking in Chennai, India, for the Professional Speakers Association of India’s annual summit. And someone asked me this question, I had a captain, we can really reflect on it before being able to give an answer. And the question was this, what is the difference between speaking and training being a professional speaker and a professional trainer because we often see these things used together. And at this event that I did here yesterday in Beirut, I was actually able to do both. I was giving a keynote and then I was also doing a half day workshop has been both a speaker and a trainer. Now you don’t have to be both a speaker and a trainer. You can just be a trainer and you can just be a speaker, but I encourage you actually if you have the ability to be able to do it, try and be able to do both of these things because they can actually compliment but they are different. They require different skill sets.

But one of the biggest differences between speaking and training is what I call the 70/30 rule. So when you go up and you give any kind of speech or any kind of presentation, keynote or speaking that breakout group, then what you’ll tend to find is 70% of what you’ll be doing is really presenting is presenting information is inspiring, educate, educating in that way. And about 30% of it is getting feedback from the audience working with the organs having a conversation with the audience asking questions of the audience. So is that kind of 70/30.

70 is almost like transmitting 30% is receiving and having that conversation when you do training, on the other hand, is you actually have to flip it around. So it’s going to be that third, only 30% is actually going to be you presenting ideas and kind of speaking in that type of way. And the vast majority is 70% of it is facilitating having those conversations pulling out the best.

In other people, so essentially you’re flipping these things read. So they are complementary skills, but they’re not the same skill. So you can become a great keynote speaker, and you don’t have to be a great trainer, or likewise or flip the ran the other side. But I think there’s really an opportunity now, and a lot of events where a lot of people say to me, James, we’d love you to come and give a keynote. And if you’d be so kind to give a 90 minute workshop or a half day workshop. There’s huge opportunity there, but it does require that you just flip things around a little bit and you develop each of these skills in a really focused and disciplined way. My name is James Taylor, and I wish you great success with your speaking.

This episode of the Speakers Life is sponsored by Espeakers. The innovative platform that connects speakers will event organizers and associations. Espeakers provides cutting edge tools that will elevate your online presence. streamline your speaking business and maximize your exposure in the Speaking industry with over 15 years in the business 10,000 speakers in their community and over 20,000 events managed annually each Espeakers is the preferred choice for top speakers. You can create your own profile on a Espeakers today by going to speakersu.com/Espeakers.

 

How do you know if you’ve given a good speech or not? Today I’m speaking in Beirut, Lebanon and in this episode of The Speakers Life I reflect on what determines whether or not you have given a good speech.

• Internal versus External
• Inspire, Educate and Entertain
• Why you should film every speech you give
• Fredrik Haren
• The two business card rule

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Hi, it’s James Taylor, keynote speaker on creativity, innovation and artificial intelligence and the founder of SpeakersU. You today I’m in Beirut, Lebanon, where I’ve just been speaking at an event and a question was asked me the other day is how do you know if you’re given a good speech or not? I think there’s really two factors that you have to use to analyze whether you’ve given a good speech or not. The first is the internal is that a sense for when you come off stage you’ve saved you can say to yourself, truthfully, I’ve delivered a really good speech I’ve been able to inspire, educate, and entertain that audience I’m able to deliver. But however, there’s one challenge we can often find when you come offstage, you’re in that heightened state you think you’ve done a good job, there’s only when you look back at the recording of your presentation where you really know if you’ve delivered the goods so I encourage you always fill them every speech that you give. Have a camera sitting up there at the back of the room. Ideally, try and fill in the audience so that you can see their reactions as you’re going through your speech and about

week after you give your presentation, sit down, watch the video and analyze. And it’s only after you doing that, where you have a real sense that this was a really good speech. The second is an external factor. Now my friend Frederick car and who’s an incredible keynote speaker once said to me, the secret of knowing if you’ve given a good speech is if you come offstage, at least two people come up to you, and give you their business card and say, we want to book you to come and speak at our event. That’s how, you know if you’ve given a good speech. And so I mean, when I first started speaking, I would come off stage I would give my speech come off stage, people come up to me, very complimentary with their what they were saying have they weren’t saying to me, James, we want to come Have you come and speak at our event. So there was a little bit of a mismatch and technology terms there was a lack of product market fit so it required the Iron Sheik spins the right audiences, right to my message, and also that my message that I was giving in my presentation was really

Really good. And I remember that moment of coming off stage one particular event and two people coming up to me with their business cards and saying, James, you really enjoyed your speech, we’d love for you to come speak at our event. And that was a point I knew, okay, now I feel like I’ve got a really good speech or something I can be building upon. So you have to have that sense of the internal and the external. The other day yesterday when I was speaking here in Beirut, Lebanon, I came off stage and three people came up to me afterwards and said, James, we’d like to book you to come and speak at our event. So I know that that’s a good speech from an external standpoint. Know About a week’s time I look back at the footage and then I’ll be able to see James Did you really deliver what you said you were going to deliver, we really able to inspire, educate and entertain and be a good speaker. So hopefully that’s useful for you. I encourage you always film all of your speeches and also get to that point where people are coming up to you and giving you the business cards and asking to book here.

Or if you can do that, that means every single year that you speak, you’re gonna be doubling your business. My name is James Taylor. Thanks for watching. How would you like to get paid to travel the world to share your message and expertise? How would it feel to get paid 5000 10,020 $5,000

to travel first class and stay in five star hotels in exotic locations. why I’ve just described is a lifestyle of international keynote speakers and you can join me and over 100 of the world’s best keynote speakers and speaker trainers as they reveal their secrets to becoming a better speaker and getting booked to travel the world as a professional keynote speaker and Bestival. As an online summit You don’t even have to leave home plus it’s not going to cost you a single dollar euro pound ruble peso or yen if you sign up for the free pass at international speakers summit calm you’re going to receive access to never seen before video interviews over 40 of the world’s best keynote speakers. In addition to the

You’ll get access to archived interviews from some of last year’s summit guests. So in total, you’ll be able to watch in depth interviews. Over 100 incredible speakers and speaker trainers, you’ll learn how to find a theme for your keynote presentation, how to craft your talk, how to get booked as a speaker, how much to charge and ways to get paid to speak on stages all over the world. So what are you waiting for? Head over to internationalspeakerssummit.com now.

 

In this episode of The Speakers Life we look at what top keynote speakers can learn from comedians about crafting a speech. Thanks to comedian Ricky Gervais for inspiring this episode.

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Hey there it’s James Taylor here I’m at London Heathrow Airport stay on my way to head out to an event in San Francisco California but I thought just do this little episode just now about the idea of work in progress now this is about how to develop your speech how to develop your your keynote your craft as a speaker last night I was at an event called work in progress show by the comedian Ricky database. So Ricky kindly put myself and my my wife Alison on the guest list for what’s called a work in progress show. So he has a big tour it’s going to be happening in about a year’s time and what he’s doing is he’s actually starting to work up the show what you’re working on all the different segments of the show musical work in progress shows the thing about work in progress show is you might do three or four or more and you’re testing out different lines and different ideas that you eventually want to put in your main show. Now here’s how this works for speakers and what we can learn from our speakers something was very interesting and the way that Ricky

crafts and builds up his set is he’s obviously thinking in individual sketches and five minute five to 10 minutes, sketches. So what you’ll often see him do is you actually even had it written on the back of his hand. He had the big names of each of the individual sketches. There’s probably about 10 of them over the course of the 60 minutes or something that he he gave his his show full. And he’s trying different ideas. And some of them work and he was very open. He came out and start saying, Hey, this is a very small audience, probably 200 people, which you normally doing big stadiums, big arenas, and he said, listen this some of these things I’m going to say tonight. So I’m going to fly some of them just going to absolutely crash and burn and that’s absolutely fine. So when, depending on the feedback I get from you tonight, will depend on why end up using in my final show. So this is a useful thing for us to think about speakers about how as we’re building up the keynote, especially as we’re working on a keynote think in a modular way thinking five minutes segments, five minute chunks of time and then what you can do is the other

Interesting thing about when you think about it that way, if you’re asked to give a speech as a slightly different from your main speech, you can just take these modules and parts of your speech and move them around. But the really key thing I learned last night this is something I always do if I’m working on a new speech I will book in a couple of shows

which are just there’s work in progress shows my book in four or five might be with a rotary club for example like essentially almost free gigs I’m doing in order to just test out this material These are my work in progress shows so if you have a big speech coming up trying get a couple of

work in progress shows in your schedule so you can work up the tune you the the pieces in your actual speech and think in those five minute modular blocks. That sounds like my my flight is going to be boarding soon, so I’ll leave it without just now. All the best all the best way of speaking, you’re speaking life This episode of The Speakers Life is sponsored by eSpeakers, the innovative platform that connects speakers with event organizers and associations.

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This week I’m in Berlin, Germany at the site of President John F. Kennedy’s famous “Ich Bin Ein Berliner” speech. In this episode of The Speakers Life I share the lessons that every speaker can learn from JFK’s speech.

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In this episode of The Speakers Life I’m going to be traveling to Berlin, Germany and sharing with you some insights I found from visiting a site of a very, very famous speech. Enjoy this episode. Hey there, James Daly, a keynote speaker on creativity, innovation and artificial intelligence and the founder of speakers. You today I’m in Berlin, Germany. And I’m on the side of a very famous speech that happened here on the 26th of June 1964. It was by the president john F. Kennedy of the United States. He gave a speech here the famous been eyeing Berliner speech Now, here’s the interesting thing about that speech actually is a number of interesting points. The first one was the if being in Berliner has a funny connotation here as well because there’s also a donut a jam do not to court a Berliner so initially when some of the audience heard him then they said he said he been in Berlin I am a Berliner, so

So I am a donut. So that’s the first kind of slightly unusual one. But the main thing I wanted to get across to you was that the speech that he gave that he’d been I Berliner, he actually had a germination, about a year earlier. I’m a speech that he gave in New Orleans, in Louisiana, and the United States on that speech, he actually said a phrase which he said, the greatest thing someone could say, 2000 years ago was, I am a Roman citizen, because it meant that that person could travel around the world. There was a sense of freedom that the Roman citizen had 2000 years ago when he came in, delivered the speech here. A year later, he starts office speech by saying no, 2000 years ago, the greatest thing that someone could say was it I am a Roman citizen and actually said in Latin as well and then they use that to link onto what he really wanted to say was the greatest thing that someone can say today is to have a sense of freedom to have to live a life of freedom is being in Berlin I am

I’m a Berliner, which basically related to I think it was going on here during the Cold War were on one side and east side they had less democratic didn’t haven’t seen the freedoms as a people on the west side now is another interesting thing about the speech he gave and I’ll put a link here so you can actually watch the speech itself they gave here on these steps in Berlin was if you watch that speech It was not the speech that he wrote the ended up giving because when he came here there was 350,000 people standing here waiting to hear him speak so he quickly figured out the speech that he’d actually written wasn’t quite appropriate also had a translator the mayor there’s going to be translating for him so he was going to be speaking a little bit and then to translate to translate so you something figured out this is not gonna work so he improvised like any good speaker would do when you come in and as the audience is slightly different from what you’re thinking that they’re going to be he would improvise later that day he actually gave the speech it’d be written

Inside in another building not far from here as well. So being able to improvise is a great skill to any speaker should have. Also having saying that free something in the local language always India’s you to an audience and the final third point there’s really cool about that speech wash speech watch how he uses timing watch how he uses pauses both before he says an important line and then after he delivers an important line he was one of the great speakers for using timing had a very distinctive Bostonian accent as well. So here from Berlin in Germany, check out the speech I wish you everyone that’s watching this just now if you’re a speaker, or aspiring Speaker I wish you all the the greatest success with your speaking definitely watch JFK video on the XP nine belly speech and from here in Berlin. My name is James Taylor, keynote speaker on creativity, innovation and artificial intelligence. I look forward to catching up with you soon. This episode of the speakers Life is sponsored by Espeakers, the innovative platform that connects speakers with event organizers and associations. Each speakers provides cutting edge tools that will elevate your online presence. streamline your speaking business and maximize your exposure in the speaking industry. With over 15 years in the business 10,000 speakers in their community and over 20,000 events managed annually each speakers is the preferred choice for top speakers you can create your own profile on a speakers today by going to SpeakersU.com/espeakers