Читать книгу THE SEVEN MINUTE STAR - Florian Mueck - Страница 6

So here we are - YOU are about to become The Seven Minute Star — and in just 15 simple steps!

All 15 steps are autonomous learning blocks. If your goal is only to become starlet rather than a fully-fledged seven minute star, you could apply any one of these steps individually, and your speaking style will improve correspondingly.

But of course the secret lies in climbing up all 15 steps, up to the stage, elevating your speaking abilities, growing and expanding, so you’ll shine in the spotlight.

The first two steps — confidence, transparency — are the foundation of your performance. You need these basic principles to climb up further.

With the third step — your first sentence — you’ll create that indispensable link of tension between yourself and your audience.

Steps four through seven — eye contact, voice, body language, visual aids — keep that tension high and guarantee that no one in your audience falls asleep.

Steps eight to eleven — structure, rhetoric, anecdotes, quotations — gives your audience the impression that what they have heard was more than informative, but has actually been profound.

To make your speech truly memorable, though, you need to continue with steps twelve to fourteen — humor, enthusiasm, passion. And the final step, both the simplest and the most difficult, the most obvious and the most important, is your smile.

Once you’ve climbed up all 15 steps, you’ll be standing on the stage ready for the spotlight. For seven minutes you’ll feel like a star. Indeed, you’ll be a star, and it will be unforgettable.

So what are you waiting for — let’s get started!