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The hidden secrets to TED talks that their founder, Chris Anderson, doesn't share.

That's what I want to share with you.

If you ever present, either from stage or to colleagues and customers, I think you'll find this helpful.

Chris gave a great TED talk on how to give a TED talk a few years ago. It's now been viewed almost 3 million times.

He seems so effortless in his delivery that I wanted to pull back the curtain and identify exactly what he was doing.

That's what I reveal in this...

Want to know the secrets of great presentations?

Whether you're on stage or in the audience, there are two things great presenters do.

They make the familiar strange and the strange familiar.

In this video I'm going to take you through the four questions that will help engage and move your audience:

1. What are the existing assumptions your audience has?
2. How can you flip this?
3. What do you want them to do differently?
4. How can you make this new action familiar?
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 You know when you watch something that seems magical? It seems somehow effortless.  

Well, it’s not. 

So today I want to delve into the details of Chris Anderson’s excellent talk on TED talks to reveal the hidden secrets to his great presentation, the ones he didn’t tell us about.

Welcome to Talking Talks, a behind the scenes look at how great presenters make great presentations.

I’m your host, Bri Williams, and today I’m watching Chris...

In this episode of Talking Talks I speak with Rachel Service, founder and CEO of The Happiness Concierge.

Rachel in a TEDx speaker, global expert on workplace culture and says she's never met a microphone she didn't like!

We talk about how to contain emotion, who you are really there to serve, tricks to be "present", how to cue your audience before interaction, what sort of feedback to ask for.

Shownotes:
- Find out more about Rachel: www.rachelservice.com/rachel-service
- Rachel's TEDx talk: ...

My Top 5 TED talks on behaviour change, including key take outs.