Tell ‘em what you’re going to tell ‘em, tell ‘em, then UGGGHHHhhhgghh
“Three Parts of a Sermon,” Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail, August 13, 1908 - https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0000377/19080813/088/0003
“Tell ‘Em What You’re Going To Tell ‘Em; Next, Tell ‘Em; Next, Tell ‘Em What You Told ‘Em” by Quote Investigator - https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/08/15/tell-em/
“Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat” by Winston Churchill - http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/churchill.htm
“I Have a Dream” by Martin Luther King Jr. - https://www.archives.gov/files/press/exhibits/dream-speech.pdf
“Rice Address” by John F. Kennedy - https://er.jsc.nasa.gov/seh/ricetalk.htm
TED: “The Secret Structure of Great Talks,” by Nancy Duarte - https://www.ted.com/talks/nancy_duarte_the_secret_structure_of_great_talks/transcript?language=en
DICE: “Beyond Facebook,” by Jesse Schell - https://www.ted.com/talks/jesse_schell_when_games_invade_real_life
Also, if you’ve made it down here, you should know that I did a fair amount of reading to try to find any hard and fast rules about what makes a good presentation, but judging the success of a presentation requires some amazingly arbitrary & subjective judgement calls - is your presentation better if your audience remembers its content, or if it changes their behavior? Are you trying to communicate effectively, or be convincing, or make your audience say “That was a good talk!” ? I should have addressed this explicitly in the video, but I’ll content myself with challenging a bit of unsubstantiated folk wisdom.
Researching Listening From The Inside Out: The Relationship Between Conversational Listening Span And Perceived Communicative Competence (Janusik, 2004) - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/277148210_RESEARCHING_LISTENING_FROM_THE_INSIDE_OUT_THE_RELATIONSHIP_BETWEEN_CONVERSATIONAL_LISTENING_SPAN_AND_PERCEIVED_COMMUNICATIVE_COMPETENCE/link/55b5438c08ae9289a08a6962/download