After his session it was like giving my talk for the first time. This acting training has been invaluable in my career as a professional speaker. Here are ten practical secrets from the craft of acting that can help you win an Academy Award on the platform. Improvise Improvisation means making it up as you go along. It means letting go in order to try something new and exciting.
Actors use improv to free up their creativity and to discover their comfort level with the script.
You can improvise by trying out different ways of structuring your speech. By improvising with my negotiation keynote, I came up with the signature story of how I accidently knocked my grandfather's false teeth down the toilet. It has nothing to do with negotiation, but it succeeds in getting the point across with warmth and humor. Tony Alessandra, PhD, CSP, CPAE, improvised a story to explain the difference between the Golden Rule and the Platinum Rule. Improvisation took him beyond the obvious.