Speaker Introductions: Engage & Connect BEFORE You Speak!
You’ve worked hard on your speech, but have you thought about how you will be introduced? A good speaker introduction can get your audience leaning forward with anticipation. A bad introduction can put people to sleep! Below is a how-to video on creating a speaker introduction. The template steps in the video are:1. Audience-Focused opening2. […]
Don’t Risk a Bad Start: Bring Your Speaker Introduction
Your speaker introduction is an important part of your presentation. It should get the audience leaning forward with anticipation of the topic and also set up your credibility (here’s a post on how to write your speaker introduction). Unless you have a video of your introduction played just prior to your presentation (which can be […]
Speaker Introductions: Get Your Audience Leaning Forward Before You Speak
“H-e-r-e-‘s Johnny!” Ed McMahon’s introduction of Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show was probably the shortest but one of the most famous introductions in entertainment. Usually, introductions need to be a little longer. Introductions fuse 3 elements: the subject, the audience and the speaker. The introduction brings together those elements and serves as a bridge, a […]