Therefore, you need to "speak differently" at the beginning, use the audience's unexpected expressions to lead to the topic, and form an amazing shocking effect, so as to firmly grasp the audience's attention.
One of my students, Jiang Qin, has been in the clothing business for more than ten years. Every time she stands on the stage, she is particularly elegant and temperamental. Everyone affectionately calls her "Chengdu Angie Chiu". Therefore, I designed the prologue for her: "Every encounter in life is a reunion after a long separation. Don't forget, there will be repercussions. " As soon as she spoke, she attracted the attention of all the audience.
A famous polar explorer in China was invited to give a lecture to graduate students. Unexpectedly, as soon as I entered the venue, I heard the students chattering and making noise. At this time, I saw him quietly and walked straight to the podium. After a short pause, I slowly took a green stone out of my pocket and held it over my head. He shook it around and said, "Please take a closer look. This kind of stone is very rare in China. At present, I am the only one. " The eyes of the whole venue suddenly lit up, and everyone craned their necks to see what had happened. At this time, the seeker began to talk about it. Two years ago, by chance, he came to the South Pole, which made him lucky to meet this stone. From the beginning, it aroused the curiosity of the audience, and at the end of the story, the speech was a great success.
At the beginning of a straight speech, tell the audience the theme of the upcoming speech and the intention to be expressed directly in two or three concise sentences. After that, the main part presented the views of the speech one after another, and finally echoed the theme from beginning to end.
For example, if you walk into the teacher's class one day, I usually say a few words to you and then start talking directly. These two sentences mainly tell you the benefits of learning to speak, called: the charm of language is incredible, and the energy of speaking is beyond imagination. After that, a lot of dry goods will be thrown out, which will suddenly make you feel that what the teacher said is really incredible.
Story-based prologue is the most popular speech method recently. Some people say that a speech is a story. This shows that stories play an important role in speeches. According to statistics, 42% of the popular speaker language programs in recent three years are presented in the form of storytelling.
The popularity of storytelling is getting higher and higher. Ginger, a good young product, is an emotional liquor. It is very popular to let the post-80 s and post-90 s no longer pay attention to the price and rationality of wine and appeal to emotional needs through a story.
It begins with a story or event closely related to the topic of the speech. This story or event should have characters and details; Be brief, or it will become a story; To be meaningful,
According to my previous teaching experience, stories are the most suitable teaching materials for beginners. Because listeners naturally like to listen to stories, some people are even influenced by stories from the beginning of prenatal education.
Here, Mr. Liang, I recommend the lecture "A Generation of Teachers" by Fudan University. Interested students may wish to search and watch in the video. Opening of the speech: When I was a child, my parents took me to the Confucius Temple and followed the crowd ... to introduce the theme of the speech.
The speaker's use of self-deprecating humor at the beginning can instantly close the distance between himself and the audience, make the audience feel superior, and at the same time let the audience feel the modesty and confidence of the speaker.
Mr. Hu Shi, the pioneer of vernacular Chinese, a modern writer in China, once began his speech like this: "Dear students, I am not here to give you a lecture today. My name is Hu. I hope everyone will meet for the first time and don't be shy. Everyone talks nonsense together and adapts to each other. " Everyone burst into laughter and the atmosphere suddenly warmed up.
This is the easiest way to use in the opening remarks, directly quoting materials that are very familiar to the audience such as authoritative figures, celebrities and scholars. It can not only attract the attention of the audience by using the care of authority, but also set off the theme of the whole speech later, which is very convincing.
If you make a serious speech as soon as you come to power, and you are also very serious at ordinary times, it is easy to give people the impression that this person is serious and inflexible, inarticulate and looks like an "old cadre" This opening, the whole process is very boring, naturally can not meet the needs of the audience.
You can try to borrow the scenes, themes and events that happened in front of you as the opening topic, and so on. It will make people think that you can speak flexibly and tactfully. Of course, we can't copy it mechanically, which has nothing to do with the theme of the speech, so we digress from Wan Li and make people laugh.
By asking some clever questions, you can make your audience pay attention. Generally, you can ask one or two questions at the beginning, which can have two advantages. One is to arouse the audience's thinking and concentrate. The second is to throw out the speaker's theme.
Many of our training teachers like to start with questions. For example, if there is such a course, it can give you practical speech skills and improve your speech by 100 times. Do you want to know? Raise your hand if you want to know! Yes, hold it straight like me and make sure to say yes!