Fill your talk with illustrations and examples

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1.    Humanize your talk

2.    Personalize your talk by using names.

3.    Be specific in filling your talk with detail.

Humanizing the talk adds interest, magic and makes the audience want to listen. One interesting paragraph is “Almost everyone can profit by this incident. The average speech would be far more appealing if it were rich with human interest stories.  The speaker should attempt to make only a few points and to illustrate them with concrete cases. Such a method of speech building can hardly fail to get and hold of attention. “

I think humanizing elements include relating a story or using humor or give an example and it gives more attention to audience.

The 2^nd one is that when you tell stories involving others, use their names, or if you want to protect their identity, use fictitious names, because nothing is as unrealistic as anonymity. Imagine a story whose hero has no name”. I actually never thought about that and people usually say “ He or she” in their conversation so that it is hard to understand who they are talking about. From now on, I will remember this and try it out.

Lastly, if you clutter your talk with too much detail, your audience will blue-pencil your remarks by refusing to give you their complete attention. There is no blue pencil more severe than inattentiveness.

Too much detail is worse than none and It is important to get the facts right, showing the slides. Otherwise, audience will feel that they will read it for themselves and no reason to be there to listen to you.