Own the Room: Presentation Techniques to Keep Your Audience on the Edge of Their Seats by Akash Karia

Author:Akash Karia [Karia, Akash]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: AkashKaria.com
Published: 2014-01-03T14:00:00+00:00

Who your audience is and whether they will find the accent offensive

What the occasion is and whether adopting the accent is appropriate for such an occasion

Whether you can pull off a sincere and accurate imitation of the accent

If there is any doubt about whether or not imitating an accent will be offensive, don’t use it!

Use Pace to Reflect the Mood

Kwong makes great use of pacing to reflect the mood of the speech. For example, consider the following piece of dialogue:

“Yeah, that’s where I am right now. Each line represents a different opportunity and it’scriss-crossing going in different directions and that’s why I don’t know where I wanna go!”

Kwong delivers the above piece of dialogue at a very fast pace which recreates the tense and desperate mood that Kwong was feeling at the time.

When rehearsing your speech, go through each line asking yourself, “What mood do I want to create here?” Use your volume and pace to help create the intended mood.

Link Your Message to Your Audience

Kwong shares his own personal, humorous story and leaves his audience with a profound lesson that he learned from his conflict. At the end of his speech, he links his message directly to his audience’s life:

“The answer for me – and the answer for you – is not in a fortune cookie or with some fortune teller – it’s not within his hands, her hands or anybody else’s hands. Trust yourself. The answer is in…your hands.”

Make sure you link your message to your audience’s life.

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