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Share Your Moment© The Exercise: Here’s what you’ll learn plus some TIPS You will make an individual presentation (two-minutes) before your group. The goals of this exercise are to: 1. Capture your audience’s attention and frame their minds using the Question Opening© 2. Communicate with your group using sensory modality 3. Look into your memory of the event and describe in detail what you’re seeing to your group
5. Speak with well-rehearsed, but not memorized material 6. Execute a Cold Closing© l Do not tell a story: this is a snapshot in time Your presentation’s topic will be an experience that is probably unique to you (not experienced by your group members). TIPS for Successful Performance ❏ Plan your opening and closing.
You can speak extemporaneously during your talk but you must have your opening and closing planned and well rehearsed.
❏ Do not tell a story.
You don’t have time to tell a beginning, middle and end-type (punch line) story. You must get your audience into the moment you’re remembering and describe it to them. Your moment may not have an ending or outcome.
❏ Use a Question Opening©
Expect your audience to answer you—this is not a rhetorical question. Wait for them to answer. Confidently, with a friendly expression on your face, scan the group, looking for a response to your question.
Tip: To counter Einstein’s Time Shift©, slowly count to five to yourself. Use a Cascading Question Opening©.
Assignment: Share Your Moment©
EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION 2
❏ Describe a unique moment in your life.
Put yourself back in that moment and remember all the rich, sensory detail. Tell your group what you’re seeing. Perform a 360-degree scan of that moment using all your senses.
Tip: Think of yourself as the eyes and ears of your listener, taking them back to that moment.
❏ As you speak to the group, look into your memory and describe what you’re seeing and feeling.
❏ Do not read or memorize your talk.
You will erect a wall between you and the audience if you read or memorize the talk. Memorized talks are flat and will result in poor audience rapport. Just talk with the group and describe to them what you’re seeing. If you attempt to read your presentation you will receive an evaluation of zero (0).
❏ Use lots of pauses.
Let your audience think. Give them time to visualize or hear or taste or smell or feel what you’re describing. It will take time. Wait a couple of beats (partial seconds). You’re pouring water on the sand of their minds; let it sink in. If you dump the entire bucket it will run off the surface of their minds and not be absorbed. Pauses draw your audience into your presentation.
The Exercise: Here’s what you’ll do Step One: Prepare a two-minute talk.
Step Two: The goal of your talk is to communicate a moment that is uniquely yours. Your challenge is to use sensory messages to communicate this moment to your audience.
Step Three: In selecting your unique moment you will want to consider your audience’s:
❏ Background ❏ Personal characteristics (age; income, gender, job title) ❏ Attitude, knowledge, and experience with your topic
Step Four: Use at least three of the following Sensory Modality in your communication:
● Aural ● Visual
● Visceral (body feelings, i.e. movement or emotions)
Assignment: Share Your Moment©
EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION 3
● Smell ● Taste ● Touch
The Exercise: Here’s how you’ll be evaluated ❏ Question Opening© needs to be successfully executed. ❏ You should capture and hold the attention of the audience. ❏ You need to establish rapport with the audience. ❏ Both quantity and quality of the use of Sensory Modality (i.e. use of commonly shared
symbols) will be evaluated. Use three Sense-Messages in your Share Your Moment© ❏ Cold Closing© needs to be successfully executed. ❏ Present within the time allotted. This is not strict but you will be stopped if you seriously
violate the two-minute limit.