Adult Learning Techniques & Dynamic Speaking. ADULT LEARNERS Leadership Experience Appeal...

Adult Learning Techniques &

Dynamic Speaking

ADULT LEARNERS

• Leadership• Experience• Appeal• Respect• Novel styles

HOOKS

FIRST HOOK

STARTLING ASSERTION

SECOND HOOK

QUOTES

THIRD HOOK

WHAT IF SCENARIO

FOURTH HOOK

SOUND BITE

FIFTH HOOK

AROUSE CURIOSITY

SIXTH HOOK

REFERENCE TO A

HISTORICAL EVENT

SEVENTH HOOK

USE THE WORD IMAGINE

EIGTH HOOK

ADD A LITTLESHOW BUSINESS

NINETH HOOK

TELL A

STORY

The Ten Commandments of PowerPoint

Enhance what the speaker

is saying!

The Ten Commandments of PowerPoint

Minimal information

onslides.

The Ten Commandments of PowerPoint

Don’t use clip art

and PowerPoint

tricks.

The Ten Commandments of PowerPoint

Use high-contrast color schemes so

that whatever is on your slides is

readable.

The Ten Commandments of PowerPoint

Rehearse your

PowerPoint.

The Ten Commandments of PowerPoint

Use blank slides.

The Ten Commandments of PowerPoint

Keep the audience

focused on you and not

on the PowerPoint.

The Ten Commandments of PowerPoint

Keep motion on the screen

to a minimum.

The Ten Commandments of PowerPoint

Don’t use the PowerPoint to cue the audience that this is

your speech.

The Ten Commandments of PowerPoint

Learn how to give a

presentation without

PowerPoint

Primacy and Recency

• We recall what we hear first and last.

Nine Principles of Nine Principles of Accelerated LearningAccelerated Learning

Paint a Picture

• An Image is worth a 1000 words• We think in Pictures• Use Stories• People believe what they can

visualize.

ColorColor

• Color gains Attention• Color enables Memory• Colors have Meanings

Nine Principles of Nine Principles of Accelerated LearningAccelerated Learning

Increase Retention by Increase Retention by Decreasing StressDecreasing Stress

• Stress Inhibits Cognitive Ability, Memory and Retention

• Public Speaking is # 1 Fear• Stress includes

Nine Principles of Nine Principles of Accelerated LearningAccelerated Learning

Impact and Hands-onImpact and Hands-on

• Words with Impact

• Ideas with Impact

• Presentation with Impact

• 10% of what we Read

• 20% of what we Hear• 30% of what we See• 50% of what we See

and Hear• 70% of what we Say

• 90% of what we Say and Do

Nine Principles of Nine Principles of Accelerated LearningAccelerated Learning

RepetitionRepetition

• Repeat Important Items• “Tell them what your going to

tell them, tell them, tell them what you told them

• Optimal retention requires 6 repetitions

Nine Principles of Nine Principles of Accelerated LearningAccelerated Learning

Five to Seven Minute Five to Seven Minute RuleRule

• Maximum Concentration is 5 to 7 Minutes

• TV Generation• Break it up/ creative pacing• Recency and Primacy

Nine Principles of Nine Principles of Accelerated LearningAccelerated Learning

Nine Principles of Nine Principles of Accelerated LearningAccelerated Learning

Primacy Paint a Picture Use Color

Decrease Stress Impact Hands on

Repetition 5 to 7 Minutes Recency

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541-917-7680robert.hayes@cityofalbany.net