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So what makes a bad speech? Hmm. Really can't remember. Well, when you get right down to
it, that in fact is what makes a bad speech. People can't remember anything you said. It's
actually very rare that someone is so awful that they completely freeze, panic, faint,
flop sweat coming out, complete disaster, the PowerPoint being destroyed. People think
that's their potential problem that they have to worry about. But in the real world, that's
not that common. Here's what is common. You get up, you give your presentation, your clothes
are exactly the way you want them to be. If you're using PowerPoint, the slides progress
just as you want to. Everything is smooth. Your hands are moving. Everything went according
to plan.
But, if someone went around the room as soon as you finished, and put a thousand dollar
bill in front of everyone, and said, "Okay. Bill. Tell me every message you remember from
Samantha's presentation." That person would never get to keep the thousand dollars, because
they can't remember a thing.
That's the real tragedy of most presentations. Is your audience can't remember anything.
It went in one ear and out the other. And what makes them bad, is they're devoid of
stories, and examples, and case studies. And if there's PowerPoint, they're not using pictures
and images. They're just using text. That's what makes a bad speech a bad speech. It's
a boring data dump, and it's a wheel barrow full of facts just thrown on people, and they
forget it instantly. That is your number one potential problem as a speaker.