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Daly's Dozen Commandments for
Powerful Presentations
By John Jay Daly, APR PRSA
- Thou shalt overcome thy fears and prepare a clear message, preferably one of importance.
- Thou shalt know thy audience and tailor thy message to be relevant and easily understood.
- Thou shalt develop a bold, clever opening plus a memorable closing -- and keep them as close together as appropriate.
- Thou shalt research, document, verify and update thy facts, using visuals where appropriate
- Thou shalt carefully weave tasteful humor in appropriate amounts throughout thy message
- Thou shalt dress appropriately and pre-ensure the physical setup is conducive to success.
- Thou shalt respect “the power of the parable" and creatively employ colorful phrases which will enable thee “to make the mundane memorable and the prosaic picturesque."
- Thou shalt choose thy words with care, clearly enunciate and correctly pronounce them while regularly modulating thy voice to produce needed variety as to volume, pacing, and tone
- Thou shalt rehearse. Thou shalt rehearse and do it again. Thou shalt then appear “natural”
- Thou shalt work with event planner to allow for a meaningful, lively question-and-answer period.
- Thou shalt summarize thy key points with strong, memorable words, yet conclude on time by providing useful passouts to extend the learning process.
- Thou shalt patiently evaluate wise critiques to determine if they will improve performances.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: John Jay Daly is an in-demand, experienced professional speaker who offers planners a half-dozen polished presentations in 45-minute modules useful for keynotes or seminars. To view a
listing of his useful topics, and along list of satisfied sponsors, visit his website. (www.johnjaydaly.com).
A video demo with 8-minute snippets of 4 of the topics is available FREE by contacting him by phone or E-mail (Speaker@johnjaydaly.com).
In 1980 he founded – and twice served as President -- of the Washington, DC Chapter of the 4000-member National Speakers Association on whose Board of Directors he served three 3-year terms. In 1998 the Chapter’s highest annual award for achievement and dedicated service was named in his honor. .
John guarantees that every meeting planner will be totally satisfied – or no fee or expenses need be paid.
He uses visuals for many of his presentations and for all of them provide useful passouts to extend the learning process. Consider enjoying the benefits of “The Daly Double” format – i.e. two talks for single
travel dollar – can stretch budgets. This provides interesting variety for events of all types. Since John can give a banquet keynote, then next morning provide a half-day educational seminar, then for luncheon
ceremony serve as wise ‘n witty emcee. In addition to educating -- and entertaining – audiences in 47 states and several countries, John also provides private coaching to enable executives, managers and others
to improve their platform performance. This can be done on an individual, confidential basis or as part of a small group arranged by the client. He suggests to clients what specific useful material to
make future talks easier and in some cases makes them available at attractive prices.
(Copyright MMIII by JJD) E-mail: Speaker@johnjaydaly.com
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