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How to Create a Great Opening for Your Presentation or Pitch - EP029

Tamsen Webster
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So you’ve done a lot of great work on your Red Thread and you think you have a great talk mapped out, but there’s one problem: you need to figure out how to start. This week on Find the Red Thread we take a look at the three ways that comedians and other successful presenters do openings. In a “cold open” you just start without any kind of preamble. SNL is famous for their cold opens, but you could also look at David Autor’s TED Talk, “Will automation take away all our jobs?”. You can also do a “warm open,” where you introduce or set up what you’re going to talk about. The idea is to ease into it, like Ken Robinson does in his talk, “Do schools kill creativity?” or Malcolm Gladwell in “The unheard story of David and Goliath.” Finally, there’s the “hot open,” where you start right in with the Goal in the form of a question or statement, like Simon Sinek in his talk “How great leaders inspire action.” No matter how you go about it, the first step is the Goal, and you have a lot of different options for how to get people there. By changing up how you introduce your Red Thread you can make a talk or presentation that hooks them from the start. Find your Red Thread at tamsenwebster.com ...more
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How to Create a Great Opening for Your Presentation or Pitch - EP029
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So you’ve done a lot of great work on your Red Thread and you think you have a great talk mapped out, but there’s one problem: you need to figure out how to start. This week on Find the Red Thread we take a look at the three ways that comedians and other successful presenters do openings. In a “cold open” you just start without any kind of preamble. SNL is famous for their cold opens, but you could also look at David Autor’s TED Talk, “Will automation take away all our jobs?”. You can also do a “warm open,” where you introduce or set up what you’re going to talk about. The idea is to ease into it, like Ken Robinson does in his talk, “Do schools kill creativity?” or Malcolm Gladwell in “The unheard story of David and Goliath.” Finally, there’s the “hot open,” where you start right in with the Goal in the form of a question or statement, like Simon Sinek in his talk “How great leaders inspire action.” No matter how you go about it, the first step is the Goal, and you have a lot of different options for how to get people there. By changing up how you introduce your Red Thread you can make a talk or presentation that hooks them from the start. Find your Red Thread at tamsenwebster.com

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Tamsen Webster

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