This is an inspiring story of an ambitious African boy who make a TED presentation.. which is a very prestigious thing .Watch this On TED .Watch any number of TED presentations and it can give you a lot of ideas to make powerful presentations
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How to Give a Killer Presentation
by Chris Anderson
A little more than a year ago, on a trip to Nairobi, Kenya, some
colleagues and I met a 12-year-old Masai boy named Richard Turere, who told us
a fascinating story. His family raises livestock on the edge of a vast national
park, and one of the biggest challenges is protecting the animals from
lions—especially at night. Richard had noticed that placing lamps in a field
didn’t deter lion attacks, but when he walked the field with a torch, the lions
stayed away.
From a young age, he’d been interested in electronics, teaching
himself by, for example, taking apart his parents’ radio. He used that
experience to devise a system of lights that would turn on and off in
sequence—using solar panels, a car battery, and a motorcycle indicator box—and
thereby create a sense of movement that he hoped would scare off the lions. He
installed the lights, and the lions stopped attacking. Soon villages elsewhere
in Kenya began installing Richard’s “lion lights.”
The story was inspiring and worthy of the broader audience that
our TED conference could offer, but on the surface, Richard seemed an unlikely
candidate to give a TED Talk. He was painfully shy. His English was halting.
When he tried to describe his invention, the sentences tumbled out
incoherently. And frankly, it was hard to imagine a preteenager standing on a
stage in front of 1,400 people accustomed to hearing from polished speakers
such as Bill Gates, Sir Ken Robinson, and Jill Bolte Taylor.
But Richard’s story was so compelling that we invited him to
speak. In the months before the 2013 conference, we worked with him to frame
his story—to find the right place to begin, and to develop a succinct and
logical arc of events. On the back of his invention Richard had won a
scholarship to one of Kenya’s best schools, and there he had the chance to
practice the talk several times in front of a live audience.
It was critical
that he build his confidence to the point where his personality could shine
through. When he finally gave his talk at TED, in Long Beach, you could tell he
was nervous, but that only made him more engaging—people were hanging on his
every word. The confidence was there, and every time Richard smiled, the
audience melted. When he finished, the response was instantaneous: a sustained
standing ovation.
Since the first TED conference, 30 years ago, speakers have run
the gamut from political figures, musicians, and TV personalities who are
completely at ease before a crowd to lesser-known academics, scientists, and
writers—some of whom feel deeply uncomfortable giving presentations.
Over the
years, we’ve sought to develop a process for helping inexperienced presenters
to frame, practice, and deliver talks that people enjoy watching. It typically
begins six to nine months before the event, and involves cycles of devising
(and revising) a script, repeated rehearsals, and plenty of fine-tuning. We’re
continually tweaking our approach—because the art of public speaking is
evolving in real time—but judging by public response, our basic regimen works
well: Since we began putting TED Talks online, in 2006, they’ve been viewed
more than one billion times.
On the basis of this experience, I’m convinced that giving a good
talk is highly coachable. In a matter of hours, a speaker’s content and
delivery can be transformed from muddled to mesmerizing. And while my team’s
experience has focused on TED’s 18-minutes-or-shorter format, the lessons we’ve
learned are surely useful to other presenters—whether it’s a CEO doing an IPO
road show, a brand manager unveiling a new product, or a start-up pitching to
VCs.
Frame Your Story
There’s no way you can give a good talk unless you have something
worth talking about. Conceptualizing and framing what you want to say is the
most vital part of preparation.
We all know that humans are wired to listen to stories, and
metaphors abound for the narrative structures that work best to engage people.
When I think about compelling presentations, I think about taking an audience
on a journey. A successful talk is a little miracle—people see the world
differently afterward.
If you frame the talk as a journey, the biggest decisions are
figuring out where to start and where to end. To find the right place to start,
consider what people in the audience already know about your subject—and how
much they care about it. If you assume they have more knowledge or interest
than they do, or if you start using jargon or get too technical, you’ll lose
them. The most engaging speakers do a superb job of very quickly introducing
the topic, explaining why they care so deeply about it, and convincing the
audience members that they should, too.
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