How to Deliver a Killer Speech Introduction
August 5th, 2008 by James Malinchak
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If you are a public speaker, you know how important it is to win over your audience from the get go. This means speaking in such a way to force your audience to look at you, especially when you begin speaking. Public speaking is not an attribute or event that anyone can do. It takes many skills including perseverance, patience, a positive attitude, and the ability to motivate a crowd.
To be great at public speaking, you have to be able to wow your audience from the start. This means producing a great speech introduction. You have to know your material extremely well, but know how to deliver it in a non-boring way. A great way to start an introduction speech, is by grabbing your audience’s attention right away. You can do this in a number of ways. An introduction speech sample would be like sitting in a chair and standing up in the back room as you are announced, then walk across a chair or two, or even walk across a desk as you proceed to the front of the room. This will surely grab the audience since they did not expect that. Or maybe you can look at your audience as you come up front and yell some kind of instruction or message at them, expecting a response.
Another example of an effective speech introduction is to tell the audience to write down on a sheet of paper a list of the most important topics delivered in your speech. This raises the anticipation level in the audience with them knowing to expect something valuable to be told to them. You could also start off by telling your audience a fascinating story. That will really captivate and hold your audience’s attention. If you are an enthusiastic speaker this is especially true.
If you are new to public speaking, listen to the experts around you and learn how to start a speech from them. Not only will you be able to learn how to start your speech but it will also help you improve your delivery.
The key to presenting your speech is by having a great speech introduction, and then go forward with your audience in mind and give them a reason to react to you and listen to what you have to say. If you do this, you will find your ability at public speaking will increase and you’ll gain more speaking opportunities.
