Great presentations work on you like great stories: They carry you away for a little while in a well-crafted net of structure, contrast, emotion, suspense. Then you’re returned to your old self, utterly convinced what the speaker said is true. ~ Bruce Upbin, Forbes

That’s the goal: to transport your audience out of their own head space, away from their own thoughts and daily tasks. A successful presentation grabs the audience’s attention – and it does not let them go.
What do Martin Luther King, Jr., John F. Kennedy, Oprah, and the other successful orators have in common? They connected with the audience. Yes, most certainly the content, details, delivery, eye contact, appropriate tone and volume, and all the rest of the bulleted ideas in any public speaking text book matter, but by far, what matters the most is – connection.
So how do The Greats connect with their audience?

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