youtube/watch?v=bbz2boNSeL0 8 MUST-HAVE Public Speaking Elements that made Dananjaya Hettiarachchi the World Champion of Public Speaking 2014 Dananjaya Hettiarachchi won the World Champion of Public Speaking 2014. Here we looked at what are the 8 elements that made him tick: 1) Theatrical attention grabbing opener with analogy. Dananjaya’s opening style was an attention grabber and theatrical. He took time to take the flower out of his left pocket (in theatre, this is called ‘moments’) and used it as an analogy in his speech. 2) Engage Audience with questions and hand movements. Twice, he asked the audience to raise hands to respond his questions. “Raise your hands, if…” This is one of the simple yet effective method. 3) Using parents as an emotional connection. Everyone has parents. By using his parents’ attributes (his emotional mama and cool dad) as anchor points to start his story. 4) Good comic timing for humour. His didn’t use slapstick humour to get attention or audience to laugh. He uses effective gestures and comic timing to illustrate “… when putting everything together, you’ll get my momma (or my dad)”. 5) Stage movements – Moving with a reason. He used the different parts of stage to illustrate the different points of his story and the relationship with the different characters. 6) Gestures. See how he used his gestures – he used different hand gestures to illustrate tears of joy (right hand gestures), tears of sorrow (left hand gestures) and tears of shame (pointing to him, because in the story he had let his mother’s down.) 7) Using Repetition and punch lines. “I see something in you, but I don’t know what it is”: he used it three times as part of his storytelling… That’s repetition - a very good tool to get messages anchored in the audience’s mind. 8) Closing the speech with a memorable punchline . He ended it with his punchline, “When I look at you, I see something in you” which by then, the sentence had already embedded in the minds of the audience and got the audience in stitches again. Hope this information is useful. In your next upcoming speech, perhaps, use some, if not all, of the elements and contextualise it to your contents. Give it a go and see what happens. For detailed analysis of his speech, visit: thespeakingfactory/articles--blogs/8-must-have-public-speaking-elements-that-made-dananjaya-hettiarachchi-the-world-champion-of-public-speaking-2014
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