Talk like ted carmine gallo pdf free download

Now public speaking coach and bestselling author Carmine Gallo explores what makes a great presentation by examining the widely acclaimed TED Talks, which have redefined the elements of a successful presentation and become the gold standard for public speaking.

These are the presentations that set the world on fire, and the techniques that top TED speakers use will make any presentation more dynamic, fire up any team, and give anyone the confidence to overcome their fear of public speaking.

In his book, Carmine Gallo has broken down hundreds of TED talks and interviewed the most popular TED presenters, as well as the top researchers in the fields of psychology, communications, and neuroscience to reveal the nine secrets of all successful TED presentations.

TED Talks have earned an enviable reputation for public speaking that likely only increases the jitters for most people called on to make presentations. Gallo divides the lessons into three parts, focusing on the emotional, novel, and memorable.

Drawing on research by psychologists and communication experts, Gallo provides detailed analysis of TED Talks. The book is most fascinating, however, when Gallo recalls interviews with some of the most successful TED speakers, offering recollections of their processes in preparing for the talk.

This is sound advice and encouragement for those who need to make presentations and an enjoyable resource for fans of TED Talks. But Gallo goes deeper than mere instruction. This book is ultimately about discovering what moves you and then creating the means of moving others with your vision. Read it and you, too, can stand and deliver a compelling, convincing and memorable talk, speech or presentation. This book will make you a much better speaker.

It is deeply researched and draws on some of the best examples of current public speaking. Learn to deliver like a pro. Through story, detail, insight, and passion, Gallo gives us secrets we can apply to our own presentations so that people actually want to hear us talk.

The Introverted Leader by Jennifer B. Kahnweiler PDF Opens in a new browser tab. Paint a Mental Picture with Multisensory Experiences 9. Some people are exceptionally good at presenting their ideas. Ideas, effectively packaged and delivered, can change the world. Talk Like TED is for anyone who wants to speak with more confidence and authority. He received the longest standing ovation in TED history, and his presentation has been viewed nearly two million times online.

For 18 minutes Stevenson held the audience spellbound by appealing to their heads and their hearts. The combination worked. Stevenson did not deliver a PowerPoint presentation. He offered no visuals, no slides, no props. The power of his narrative carried the day. Christian and Stevenson have seemingly different presentation styles and you will hear from both of them in this book.

One tells stories, the other delivers mountains of data with image-rich slides, yet both are captivating, entertaining, and inspiring because they share nine secrets.

They understand the science and the art of persuasion. Best of all, once you learn the secrets these communicators share, you can adopt them and stand out in your very next pitch or presentation. It represents a bold, fresh, contemporary, and compelling style that will help you win over your audience. Six years later it was reinvented as a four-day conference in Monterey, California.

Technology-magazine publisher Chris Anderson purchased the conference in and relocated it to Long Beach, California in In , the TED conference begins a run in Vancouver, Canada, reflecting its growing international appeal. Until TED was a once-a-year event: four days, 50 speakers, minute presentations. In that year, Anderson added a sister conference called TEDGlobal to reach an international audience.

In , the organization began granting licenses to third parties who could organize their own community-level TEDx events. Within three years more than 16, talks had been delivered at TEDx events around the world. Today there are five TEDx events organized every day in more than countries.

The site posted six talks to test the market. Six months later the site only had about 40 presentations, yet had attracted more than three million views. The world was and still is clearly hungry for great ideas presented in an engaging way. On November 13, TED. The videos are translated into up to 90 languages, and 17 new viewings of TED presentations start every second of every day. The conference is still the engine, but the website is the amplifier that takes the ideas to the world.

Some of these speakers used traditional presentation slides; others did not. But they all delivered talks that were emotional, novel, and memorable. Today TED has become such an influential platform, famous actors and musicians make a beeline to a TED stage when they have ideas to share. Earlier in the week U2 singer Bono delivered a presentation on the success of antipoverty campaigns around the world.

When celebrities want to be taken seriously, they hit the TED stage. TED presentations change the way people see the world and are springboards to launch movements in the areas of art, design, business, education, health, science, technology, and global issues.

Documentary filmmaker Daphne Zuniga attended the conference. I wrote a book titled The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs, which went on to become an international bestseller. Famous CEOs are known to have adopted the principles revealed in the book, and hundreds of thousands of professionals around the world are using the method to transform their presentations.

I was flattered by the attention, but I wanted to reassure readers that the techniques I explored in Presentation Secrets were not exclusive to Steve Jobs. The Apple cofounder and technology visionary just happened to be very good at putting them all together. Ironically, the commencement speech is one of the most popular videos on TED.

And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Discontent with the status quo, they are looking for inspiring and innovative ideas that move the world forward.

It introduces you to men and women—scientists, authors, educators, environmentalists, and famous leaders—who prepare and deliver the talk of their lives. Every one of the more than 1, presentations available for free on the TED Web site can teach you something about public speaking. Carnegie wrote the first mass market public-speaking and self-help book in , The Art of Public Speaking. He recommended that speakers keep their talks short.

He said stories were powerful ways of connecting emotionally with your audience. He suggested the use of rhetorical devices such as metaphors and analogies. Three-quarters of a century before PowerPoint was invented Carnegie was talking about using visual aids.

Everything Carnegie recommended in remains the foundation of effective communication to this day. This technology and other tools of modern science have led to an avalanche of studies in the area of communication.

The secrets revealed in this book are supported by the latest science from the best minds on the planet, and they work. Is passion contagious? Why does an minute presentation trump a minute one? Why did video of Bill Gates releasing mosquitoes into an audience go viral? Today, thanks to the availability of broadband, people can watch videos on TED. Once you learn these nine secrets, read the interviews with popular TED speakers, and understand the science behind it all, you can turn to TED.

It will teach you how to incorporate the elements that all inspiring presentations share, and it will show you how to reimagine the way you see yourself as a leader and a communicator. Ideas are only as good as the actions that follow the communication of those ideas.

You will read about research—never published in the popular press—that explains why passion is the key to mastering a skill like public speaking. Chapter 2 teaches you how to master the art of storytelling and why stories help your listeners get emotionally attached to your topic. In chapter 3 you will learn how TED presenters exhibit body language and verbal delivery that is genuine and natural, almost as if they are having a conversation instead of addressing a large audience.

You will learn techniques to make your presence and delivery more comfortable and impactful. In chapter 4 we explore how the greatest TED presenters engage their audiences with new information or a unique approach to an area of study.

Chapter 6 addresses the sensitive but important element of genuine humor—when to use it, how to use it, and how to be funny without telling a joke. Humor is unique to each presenter and it must be incorporated into your personal style of presenting. In chapter 7 I explore why the minute TED presentation is the ideal length of time to get your point across.

Chapter 8 covers the importance of creating vivid, multisensory experiences so your audience can recall the content more successfully.

In chapter 9 I emphasize the importance of staying in your own lane, the ultimate key to being a genuine, authentic speaker whom people feel they can trust. Each chapter features a specific technique shared by the most popular TED speakers along with examples, insights, and interviews with the people who delivered the presentations. In these notes you will find the name of the speaker and the title of his or her presentation so you can search for it easily on TED.

These findings have profound implications for your very next presentation. Power, intelligence, and creativity are forces that we can unleash with the right mind-set and skills. People who are masters in their field e. Talk Like TED will give you the tools and show you how to use them to help you find your voice and maybe even your fortune. Better-than-average communicators are generally more successful than other people, but great communicators start movements.

Failure to communicate effectively in business is a fast road to failure. The ability to deliver a TED-worthy presentation could mean the difference between enjoying acclaim and toiling in hopeless obscurity.

That means your life has purpose. You were meant for greatness. Captivate your audience. Inspire them. Change the world. The talks that work best are the ones where people can really sense that humanity.

The emotions, dreams, imagination. Unleash the Master Within Passion is the thing that will help you create the highest expression of your talent. Like most people she was born with two, but unlike most people Mullins had to have both legs amputated below the knee due to a medical condition. Mullins has lived with no lower legs since her first birthday. Mullins grew up in a middle-class family in the middle-class town of Allentown, Pennsylvania, yet her achievements are far from ordinary.

Mullins redefines what it means to be disabled. In the 5'8" Mullins stood on the TED stage at 6'1" the height she chose for the occasion. Mullins picks different legs to suit the event. She uses more-functional limbs for walking the streets of Manhattan and more-fashionable ones for fancy parties.

Mullins believes her TED appearance began a conversation that profoundly changed the way society looks at people with disabilities. Innovators, designers, and artists outside the traditional prosthetic medical community were inspired to see how creative and lifelike they could make legs. Secret 1: Unleash the Master Within Dig deep to identify your unique and meaningful connection to your presentation topic. Passion leads to mastery and your presentation is nothing without it, but keep in mind that what fires you up might not be the obvious.

Why it works: Science shows that passion is contagious, literally. You cannot inspire others unless you are inspired yourself. You stand a much greater chance of persuading and inspiring your listeners if you express an enthusiastic, passionate, and meaningful connection to your topic. Yes, if it had been delivered by anyone else. Russell, however, is a successful fashion model. Within thirty seconds of taking the stage Russell changed her outfit.

She covered her revealing, tight-fitting black dress with a wraparound skirt, replaced her eight-inch heels with plain shoes, and pulled a turtleneck sweater over her head. I just totally transformed what you thought of me in six seconds. They are constructions, and they are constructions by a group of professionals, by hairstylists and makeup artists and photographers and stylists and all of their assistants and preproduction and postproduction.

They build this. Passion is contagious. Russell and Mullins were given a platform because they are masters in their fields, but they connect with their audiences because they are passionate about their topics.

Yet each gave the talk of her life. The most popular TED speakers share something in common with the most engaging communicators in any field—a passion, an obsession they must share with others. These people are called to share their ideas.

People cannot inspire others unless and until they are inspired themselves. Feeling motivated and energized, we can overcome almost anything. Feeling bored and restless, our minds shut off and we become increasingly passive. In any language, on any continent, in every country, those speakers who genuinely express their passion and enthusiasm for the topic are the ones who stand apart as inspiring leaders.

For years I started with the same question during my coaching sessions with a client— what are you passionate about? How do I make my customers happy? The questions you ask will lead to a very different set of results.

What am I truly passionate about? Since many speakers are bone-dry because they have no passionate attachment to the topic, watching an enthusiastic speaker is as refreshing as drinking ice-cold water in the desert.

For example, I worked with a client in the agribusiness community of California. He headed an association of strawberry growers, an important crop for the state. My parents were immigrants and worked in the fields. Eventually they were able to buy an acre of land and it grew from there. What makes your heart sing?

Identify it and share it with others. A passion is something that is intensely meaningful and core to your identity. Once you identify what your passion is, can you say it influences your daily activities? Can you incorporate it into what you do professionally? Your true passion should be the subject of your communications and will serve to truly inspire your audience.