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You can have the best content in the world. Without a story to carry it, your audience will forget it before they reach the car park.
Research from the Stanford Graduate School of Business shows that audiences are up to 22 times more likely to remember a fact when it's embedded in a story. That's n...
The first 60 seconds of your talk decide everything. Your audience makes a fast, quiet judgement about whether you're worth listening to, and most speakers lose them before they've finished saying thank you.
That's not an exaggeration. Brain imaging research used by TED's speaker coaches shows that...
You've been on stage for 45 minutes. The content was strong. The audience was engaged. You told a great story in the middle that had the whole room leaning in. And then... you said "So, yeah. That's pretty much it. Thanks for having me." And it was over.
All that momentum. Gone. Because the close f...
You've watched TED talks. You've probably watched dozens. And if you're honest, some of those 18-minute presentations stuck with you longer than sermons you've heard over the past year.
That's not a criticism of sermons. It's an observation about craft. TED speakers are trained to communicate with ...