Thoroughly prepare what you are going to say

Even though the introductory talk was short, hardly ever exceeding 1 minute, it demands careful preparation.

Most important items are gather your facts: these will center around 3 items. The subject of the speaker’s talk, his qualifications to speak on that subject, and his name.

This can be obviated by making sure you know what the speakers subject is and refraining from trying to predict what he will say. I think another book also mentioned about the name. I think it is so important that you don’t want to make any mistakes about someone’s name.

Sometimes, it is difficult to pronounce the last name correctly and it is important to double check before the introductory talk , because it is pretty complicated sometimes and people can make a mistake so easily. 

It reminds me of the general manager who I mentioned before. One day, he had to introduce a senior marketing manager who decided to take another path for his career and I was so surprised that this GM remembered all the memories about him. The products that he worked together on and shared his achievements in very fine detail. I still keep in touch with him and every time when I meet him, I’m so amazed about him, because he is very sharp to remember many things in detail.

In this chapter, one technique is preparing well for the introductory talk, but when I think about my GM, I don’t think he actually prepared it. Perhaps, He prepared about the person who he is going to introduce, but it was so natural that the listeners believe that it was an impromptu talk.

Now, I am curious about it and I would like to ask him when I get a chance to meet him in person.

Anyways, the key takeaways are preparation of introductory talk which are mainly 3 items.