Connect with Audience - Me, We, You

• This technique will almost instantly connect you with your audience. 
• This technique will let your audience know that you are not standing on to of a mountain top and talking down to your audience but that you have understand them and know where they are at.
• This technique creates a common sense of togetherness with listeners and speaker.
• First is ME - here you talk about yourself and the challenges ( subject of your speech) you faced and most likely your audience has/or are facing as well. Here you be transparent and share.
• Next is WE , here you everyone together  by saying that WE all go through this or understand this or experience something. This will tell the room that yes, its just not them but everyone present who encounter that issue or challenge.
• Then you go with the direct approach of YOU - where it will appear that you are talking to each person directly in the room and that you as the speaker can help them, inspire them or motivate them to move past their current challenge. This is where you show yourself as someone who is an expert or is knowledgeable in your subject.
• Example: 
  "There was a time in my life when I often doubted myself, I used to ask myself if I was good enough, capable enough, smart enough to have my own business after all the failures in my life.
  We as humans have a tendency to have our desires and goals and almost instantly question ourselves, are we able to make it happen?
  Has there ever been a time in your life when you wanted to do something but you doubted yourself, you listened to your own negative chatter and you didn't take that opportunity or step out of your comfort zone?
  
  

Connect with Audience - Echo, Repeat and Respond

• A great speech feels like a conversation. This technique will help create a dialogue and not just a monologue where we only have one person speaking.
• This technique is where you ask your audience something, listen actively as they answer, repeat or paraphrase what they said and then respond to them as the expert.
• You could ask : How many of you.. , Raise your hand if you have... , Have you ever ?
• Then you as the speaker say... I hear that this is what you are saying .. paraphrase so everyone else including the  person who replied to your question is clear what we are talking about.
• Then you respond as the expert to the question you asked.
• Example:

          "How many of you know what are you really working towards in life. what is your vision?
            By the response I am seeing, not many people are aware of what they really want in life.
            As a Life Coach I would  like to advice you that having a goal in life is very important, what you are working
           towards, what your daily efforts are contributing to. It is your vision that will keep you motivated to work hard
          in life as you achieve your goals"

Storytelling - Don't tell a story, show a story

• Telling stories as part of your speech is such a powerful way of connecting with your audience and getting an idea across.
• Excellent speakers don't just tell  a story but show the audience an experience. 
• A story is can be used in any setting to enhance your message, whether you are talking to your spouse, your children, to your team at work, presenting the monthly budget to a group or standing on stage and sharing.
• A story is just an incident in your life. It could be something as like how you celebrated your birthday, how you went through something in life, or something that happened on your way to KFC , how you fell , how you bought your first car or the day you learnt a lesson in life. It is an incident that happened in your life.
• In speaking , you use a story to connect an idea. Generally there is 1 idea with one story.
• How you show a story is by describing in that moment what you felt, what you saw, what you heard, what you felt, what you smelt and how you reacted.
• Example:
  

" As I sat on the blue chair next to the window waiting for my name to be called out, I was a 100 thoughts a minute - was I good enough, am I capable, will I be able to speak well, will I be able to understand them?
As the thoughts came in I could feel my heart raising and my feet starting to move by itself , I was almost shaking as I anticipated by name to be called out next, I felt extremally nervous. I could almost sense a patch of sweat under my smartly ironed pink shirt "

Describing what I felt, what was happening and how my body was reacting, I was able to make you picture exactly what was going on .