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Actual for You - Total Recall: How to Remember Your Speech Without Memorizing
If you're like many small, independent restaurants offering great food and good service to a loyal clientele, you feel pretty good about your business. Until, perhaps, you turn see a slick TV ad promoting one of your local franchised competitors. Then it's easy to feel a bit out gunned.Actually, nothing could be further from the truth. Even in the age of multimillion-dollar ad budgets and powerful national TV campa
9. Make complex data concrete. Use analogies and demonstrations to make the data come alive.Tthe audience will understand it better and you will recall it more easily.
10. Get physical. By acting out parts of the presentation you maximize your memory. Walk to one side of the room. when you are talking about past history. Then move the opposite side when you’re making future projections. You’ll trigger your memory when you physically change your position. And the audience will be
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You can avoid blanking out when you know how to maximize your mind.
These tips will help you achieve total recall of your talk:
1. Rehearse out loud. You’ll remember more when you hear your own voice. Tape it and play it back. Listen to it in the car or as you fall asleep.
2. Practice the 3x5, 3x5 Rule. Avoid one lengthy rehearsal. Instead, take short chunks and practice them 3 to 5 times a day for 3 to 5 days. Frequency of repetition aids memory.
3. Create key words and phrases. The idea is to memorize concepts-not words. The more verbiage, the more difficult to remember. Bullet points allow you to talk about your points and not read your slides.
4. Exaggerate the visual. For each concept or bullet, take the key word and turn it upside down, enlarge it, color code it, change the font. Exaggeration makes the concept more memorable and aids retention. (Of course, this is done during rehearsal and not for the eyes of the audience.)
5. Use pictures. The mind thinks in pictures-not in words. Use icons, graphics, and symbols as prompts and you’ll be amazed at how easily you remember your content.
6. Tell your story. People learn better and retain more when you tell stories. A situation that you experienced has a natural sequence to help you recall events. Stories don’t have to be touchy feely. Reveal an interesting experience as a case study or tell a before and after success scenario.
7. Engage other senses. This is called synesthesia.. Your recall increases as you intensity your experience. For example, if you’re talking about a financial downturn in the market, imagine hearing a warning siren or feel what it’s like to be in a torrential downpour.
8. Associate. Take your concepts and create an acronym. To recall the process of managing question and answer periods I use the word CRAM-concentrate, repeat, answer, move on. Comedians use this technique. They assign each story or “bit” with a key word. They take the first letter of the key word from each story and form an acronym. This keeps them on track and they can easily access the segments in correct sequence for a one hour monologue without notes!
9. Make complex data concrete. Use analogies and demonstrations to make the data come alive.Tthe audience will understand it better and you will recall it more easily.
10. Get physical. By acting out parts of the presentation you maximize your memory. Walk to one side of the room. when you are talking about past history. Then move the opposite side when you’re making future projections. You’ll trigger your memory when you physically change your position. And the audience will be
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3. Create key words and phrases. The idea is to memorize concepts-not words. The more verbiage, the more difficult to remember. Bullet points allow you to talk about your points and not read your slides.
4. Exaggerate the visual. For each concept or bullet, take the key word and turn it upside down, enlarge it, color code it, change the font. Exaggeration makes the concept more memorable and aids retention. (Of course, this is done during rehearsal and not for the eyes of the audience.)
5. Use pictures. The mind thinks in pictures-not in words. Use icons, graphics, and symbols as prompts and you’ll be amazed at how easily you remember your content.
6. Tell your story. People learn better and retain more when you tell stories. A situation that you experienced has a natural sequence to help you recall events. Stories don’t have to be touchy feely. Reveal an interesting experience as a case study or tell a before and after success scenario.
7. Engage other senses. This is called synesthesia.. Your recall increases as you intensity your experience. For example, if you’re talking about a financial downturn in the market, imagine hearing a warning siren or feel what it’s like to be in a torrential downpour.
8. Associate. Take your concepts and create an acronym. To recall the process of managing question and answer periods I use the word CRAM-concentrate, repeat, answer, move on. Comedians use this technique. They assign each story or “bit” with a key word. They take the first letter of the key word from each story and form an acronym. This keeps them on track and they can easily access the segments in correct sequence for a one hour monologue without notes!
9. Make complex data concrete. Use analogies and demonstrations to make the data come alive.Tthe audience will understand it better and you will recall it more easily.
10. Get physical. By acting out parts of the presentation you maximize your memory. Walk to one side of the room. when you are talking about past history. Then move the opposite side when you’re making future projections. You’ll trigger your memory when you physically change your position. And the audience will be
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5. Use pictures. The mind thinks in pictures-not in words. Use icons, graphics, and symbols as prompts and you’ll be amazed at how easily you remember your content.
6. Tell your story. People learn better and retain more when you tell stories. A situation that you experienced has a natural sequence to help you recall events. Stories don’t have to be touchy feely. Reveal an interesting experience as a case study or tell a before and after success scenario.
7. Engage other senses. This is called synesthesia.. Your recall increases as you intensity your experience. For example, if you’re talking about a financial downturn in the market, imagine hearing a warning siren or feel what it’s like to be in a torrential downpour.
8. Associate. Take your concepts and create an acronym. To recall the process of managing question and answer periods I use the word CRAM-concentrate, repeat, answer, move on. Comedians use this technique. They assign each story or “bit” with a key word. They take the first letter of the key word from each story and form an acronym. This keeps them on track and they can easily access the segments in correct sequence for a one hour monologue without notes!
9. Make complex data concrete. Use analogies and demonstrations to make the data come alive.Tthe audience will understand it better and you will recall it more easily.
10. Get physical. By acting out parts of the presentation you maximize your memory. Walk to one side of the room. when you are talking about past history. Then move the opposite side when you’re making future projections. You’ll trigger your memory when you physically change your position. And the audience will be
It is curious how the use of something can change over time. Like the tailbone or the appendix, many things have survived from the past that have lost all reasons to survive. Yet they do survive, clueless dinosaurs from a previous age that have adapted themselves to newer uses, becoming a croc or a lizard in the process. The lanyard, that curious piece of string that pops up in all places and comes attached with all sorts of
8. Associate. Take your concepts and create an acronym. To recall the process of managing question and answer periods I use the word CRAM-concentrate, repeat, answer, move on. Comedians use this technique. They assign each story or “bit” with a key word. They take the first letter of the key word from each story and form an acronym. This keeps them on track and they can easily access the segments in correct sequence for a one hour monologue without notes!
9. Make complex data concrete. Use analogies and demonstrations to make the data come alive.Tthe audience will understand it better and you will recall it more easily.
10. Get physical. By acting out parts of the presentation you maximize your memory. Walk to one side of the room. when you are talking about past history. Then move the opposite side when you’re making future projections. You’ll trigger your memory when you physically change your position. And the audience will be
Every small business knows that you participate in the community, then the community will shop in your store. In a franchise business, the franchisor should also encourage, if not require a franchise outlet to do community service and stay involved with the community that will support them.It is for this reason that in my company, we required as per the franchise agreement, as well as the confidential operations manu
9. Make complex data concrete. Use analogies and demonstrations to make the data come alive.Tthe audience will understand it better and you will recall it more easily.
10. Get physical. By acting out parts of the presentation you maximize your memory. Walk to one side of the room. when you are talking about past history. Then move the opposite side when you’re making future projections. You’ll trigger your memory when you physically change your position. And the audience will be anchored to hear your message.
11. Recover with grace. If you do forget, pause and give yourself time to remember. Or use humor. But have a fall back exercise. Ask the audience to repeat your last three points. Put them in pairs and have them talk to their partner for one minute about an important point. This give you time to recall and recover.
When it comes to remembering your speech, you can blank out and say Hasta La Vista, Baby, or like Arnold Scwartzenegger, you can achieve Total Recall.
Copyright Diane DiResta 2005. All rights reserved.
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