Your speech opening is the second most critical part of your speech (after the speech closing).
An effective speech opening can capture the attention of the audience, establish your credibility, set the tone for your presentation, introduce key characters or concepts, or establish your line of reasoning.
A poor speech opening confuses the audience, sidetracks your talk with an irrelevant joke or story, or makes them sigh “another boring presentation…”
Examples and more information can be found in the following Six Minutes articles:
This article examines Al Gore’s presentation from TED in 2006. My aim is to evaluate the effectiveness of the presentation, not to express scientific or political opinion on the content of the message.
This was a fantastic presentation worthy of study. There is much to be learned from analyzing what Gore did well, and what he could have done better.
I first viewed Dick Hardt‘s Identity 2.0 presentation from OSCON 2005 over two years ago. It was unlike any presentation I had ever seen at the time. I noted that I had just been injected with information.
I recently returned to the presentation with a more critical view.
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