Mind Mapping for Public Speaking: Plan, Rehearse, & Deliver

This very short lecture is to help you appreciate and navigate this section

This lecture shows how a lecture can be planned out using Mind Mapping. It also shows how the mind map helps you talk through and explore the topic. In this process, you're interrogating yourself about what you (already) know and you're also discovering where there are gaps in your knowledge.

Having completed the basic plan for the lecture, the next step is to go through the map again, starting to create a conversation about the topic, and also adding more material if necessary to the map. Each time you do this basic 'review and add' process you are also helping to commit the content to memory

Now the lecture 'map' is (almost) complete you can start to to use the map to actually rehearse your talk. The first time you do this is a good time to add colour to your mind map. Colour helps group together each part of the map, and makes the content standout from the background. Colour also draws your eye into the map and helps to focus everything around the lecture topic (keeping you on task). A black and white copy of the mind map can be downloaded from resources if you'd like to colour in and do the review yourself.

If you wish to memorise the lecture content then you'll need to do one or two further reviews (see the paper on memory in the resources section). As you may not wish to actually memorise my mind map, you can leave this lecture out if you wish. The lecture shows me doing a further review to lock the talk into memory. You'll also notice how I start to add information into the talk that isn't actually on the map itself. This is the power of the mind map. It gets your speaking juices going!

Also in the resources tab there are articles available to download. One is a combined article on memory and study and one is an article about keyword selection for mind maps

See how easy it is to plan a short lecture - in this case you'll be talking about a simple model (GROW) used by many coaches. You are provided with some internet resources on the GROW coaching method and a mind map template. Choose one of the resources available and then use that content to map a talk. Use the resource material to add keyword detail to the mind map template, refine it, practise reading. If you like you can make an audio recording with you talking on the topic. You can view a video from MindTools about the GROW model in Coaching here: https://udmlearn.oneclick-cloud.shop/_ud_origin/www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fbooiSh_bA

A summary of what has been achieved so far. You also now need to decide whether it is appropriate for you to move on and start section 3.

Your task is to put what you have learnt during the course into practice. See if you can deliver my coaching lecture, first as an audio recording and then as a talking head in front of a camera. Basically you'll be comparing and contrasting 'coaching' in your own words not mine, but you'll be using my framework. Don't expect to be perfect, as this will be the first time you've used a mind map in this way. Remember that practice makes permanent.

As an experienced mind mapper you won't need to use the mind map template and you can be more creative than simply delivering my coaching lecture. So your task is to mind map something that is of interest to you around which you could build a lecture. Plan it using a mind map and then use the same map to refine, rehearse and then deliver the lecture and make either an audio or a video recording of it.

This short lecture looks at the scenario where you find you can plan and rehearse a talk OK (using the mind mapping technique) but you may want to convert it into a written article for example

Here you can see a mind map that I have created as a checklist of all the skills that can make a great presentation.Then in the lecture itself I talk you though how the mind map can be used.

Here you can see me delivering a lecture about the Pre-Requisites for Effective Learning. You can see both my talking head recording and the mind map that I am using to help me navigate through the lecture.

When I run a Speaking Skills Workshop I get the participants to plan, rehearse and deliver short talks over the course of the day. The first talk they deliver is a baseline - it shows me what they are good at and what could be improved. I then coach the whole group introducing relevant models and practises to help them improve. They then seek to integrate these tips into their own talks by planning a new talk, rehearsing and delivering it to camera. We then work on further tips to help them improve and towards the end of the day they plan, rehearse and deliver a final presentation. At this stage of the workshop,  I offer to do the same. So I get them to agree a topic for me and under exactly the same conditions I set for them, I also get to deliver a short talk to camera. 

I recently ran three consecutive workshops over three days for a Company in London (UK). So I planned, rehearsed and delivered three talks (each occasion with 10 minutes to plan, 10 mins to rehearse and (up to)10 minutes to talk. Here is the first of the three talks.

This was the talk I prepared and delivered during the second Speaking Skills Workshop

This was the talk I prepared and delivered during the third Speaking Skills Workshop

Please note the sound isn't brilliant on this recording.

I had volunteered to be a speaker at a future "No Frills Networking" event and had given the title "How to give a brain-friendly presentation" as a possible topic (a talk that I'd not actually given before). When their current speaker dropped out with less than a days notice I had a call from Shelly Jackson-Woodall asked if I could give my talk instead. No problem I said! So this video shows how I quickly outlined the workshop ready to rehearse and then deliver (all within a few hours)

As well as knowing what to say when you come to present a speech or talk there is also what to do when you are on stage or in front of a microphone. What to do with the other aspects of a speech like your stance and your voice projection. In this video I share some tips from a colleague about how to make good use of your voice.

These are points to note besides planning and rehearsing and that is Improving YOUR DELIVERY

For those of you who have a basic dread of speaking in front of an audience, here is a fun song I wrote many years ago to offer some tips. Although this was aimed at a 'networking pitch' the principles are the same whether you are speaking for 2 minutes or 40 minutes!

This section dissects a TED talk given by me a few years ago.

We'll start with the actual talk itself delivered at Canary Wharf in London. And then We'll look at how the talk was planned and developed We'll look at the strengths and slap the weaknesses of the TEDx based system. So I'll gradually be uploading a series of videos between now (July 2021) and October.

So the previous lecture is my actual Tedx talk presented live at TEDx Canary Wharf. This video is my original draft speech submitted to the organisers (which I am reading out here and I've added slides to). Can you see the major differences in style, presentation and content? Which one do you prefer?

As Chris Anderson, the creator of TED talks, outlines here the start of a great TED talk is the IDEA. As we show you in this course you can not only use Mind Mapping to PLAN, PREPARE, REHEARSE, REMEMBER and DELIVER a great TED talk but you can also use it in the research and CREATION of the Idea

This lecture reviews the course and suggests some possible next steps