How to speak at a high level when speaking on the spot?

In our daily work, the occasion of impromptu speech is far more than can be prepared in advance to speak. For example, the weekly meeting with the department to do a summary, to subordinates to assign tasks, and then for example, temporary by the boss to interrogate the progress of the project, or in a variety of meetings temporarily ask you to speak two sentences, and so on. Want to say in such a high-frequency occasion wonderfully, the most critical is that you have to be able to impromptu speech quickly build a logical framework, so that what you say in organized, and level. So how to build a logical speech structure? Today I'll share a method called the "three points and a line" method. What does it mean? It means that when we speak, we talk about three points, and all three points are on the same logical line.

Speaking of three points, psychology has been studied and analyzed, our brain is easier to remember the three points. If you think about it, if you say two points, you will feel that your speech is a little thin, and say four points, it seems a little long-winded.

Three points of exposition can help you in the form of expression, the content of the division of a very obvious logical structure. But when it comes to this I want to emphasize that speaking of three points for many people is not difficult, but the key is how that line is linked with logic, which is what determines the level of your speech and the degree of excitement.

Let's look at an example.

Case one: celebration speech

A friend of mine, to attend the fifth anniversary celebration of the partner company, as a representative of the partner, temporarily cued by the host on stage to make a speech.

This is what he said: "First of all, congratulations on the fifth anniversary of your company, see the five years of your company's development, it is not easy to feel, but also brought me a lot of inspiration; Secondly, to thank Liu and his team in the project to pay, but also give us a lot of support and cooperation, so that the project can achieve today's results; Finally, we look forward to more milestones in the future cooperation."

After listening to this paragraph, how do you feel? Do you think there is no big problem, and consciously said three points, the congratulations and thanks also expressed, impromptu speech well, it can be said. However, it only makes sense. If you are on the scene, I guess you certainly do not think this partner speech is very level, these very official clichés, will not leave the audience any special memory.

So how to say it better? Come on, I'll give you a universal formula for impromptu speeches at celebrations, it's simple, it's three points and one line is "past - present - future".

How to use it, let me explain to you. What is the "past" about? It's about memories. Of course, it's about your memories and each other's memories. The "present" is about the current scene and your thoughts and feelings. The "future" is a blessing, a promise.

I asked this friend to use "past-present-future", and he would say: "I'm especially happy to attend your fifth anniversary celebration today, time flies. I remember five years ago, when I first came to talk business with Mr. Liu, at that time, your office address was still a three-bedroom apartment in a residential building, and the total number of employees was less than 20. Five years later, now you have grown to more than 200 employees and your office has moved to such a luxurious office building. Although the house has become bigger and the number of employees has increased, what I see that you have not changed in these five years is the attitude of making products, always respecting the products and the customers. In the future, I hope we can create more cooperation besides this project, and I look forward to your next five years of great changes as we move forward hand in hand."

I do not need to say, you will certainly feel that in this version of the speech, more people feel that the words are meaningful, not false and empty. To let you use the formula "past - present - future" more in place and more comfortable, let me tell you, it is good in the end where.

First of all, when you talk about the past, that each person's memories can be unique, and this memory will have a relationship with the main character of the field, so the light can hit the main character, rather than listening to your self-centered elaboration.

Then there is, you do a "past" and "present" contrast, the greater the change, the stronger the impact and sense of image to everyone, and others will have a deep impression.

This formula works well, even at a wedding, to improvise a couple of sentences, whether as friends of the couple, parents, or relatives, you can use this method. For example, first, recall the story between themselves and the new couple, and then now see how happy they are to tie the knot, and bless the future of how they are happy and fulfilled. You see, it is not all celebrations that can be used.

Case 2: Motivating the team

Next, let's look at the second case.

A new product of Zhang's head office was about to go online, and the workload had increased dramatically. At the regular meeting, after he announced the work tasks for the next two weeks, it was obvious that his subordinates had some resistance, and some even started to whisper complaints.

I believe that as a manager, you will often encounter scenarios like this one where you have to mobilize your team to roll up their sleeves and give your employees a morale boost.

Then the speech in this scenario, our three points of view can be how to ride it? You can use the formula called: "pick up the emotion - give resources - promote action".

You see, according to this formula, Mr. Zhang should come up first to catch the negative emotions of the staff, he can say "I know that everyone is very hard and stressed lately. But "I know you are very hard" this sentence is enough? Not enough. How to take the emotions in place, so that others can empathize with you, and feel your sincerity, is required through the details to reflect. For example, "I saw the day before yesterday Xiao Zhu worked overtime until 3:00 a.m., just now Xiao Wang is also, half of the meal to come to the meeting, I know that everyone is very hard."

You see, this is called the emotions received a bit. Said the details, your employees, only really feel your sincerity, because you really "see" them.

Then, after taking over the emotions, you have to appease everyone. How to pacify it? As a senior executive, you have to give resources ah. You can say what is the difficulty you encounter at the moment, such as: "Your difficulty is the lack of people or money, or which step is difficult to advance. Well, lack of people I will go to HR to ask for people, lack of money I find money from where, or which customer is particularly difficult, I will take you to visit the customer."

You see, this is called giving resources.

Then on this basis, you put forward the third layer of "promote action", and employees say "let's work together, work hard", and they will be willing to take action.

Case three: sharing experience

Let's look at the case of a student in our small class.

The second small class has a student named Jie. Last month, Jie went to his child's parent-teacher conference, his child made great progress in this test, and the teacher invited him to the stage to share his experience.

Jie used three points and one line "first - second - again" to speak, but the point is ah, this line of logic strung together very beautifully, I tell you how he said.

He said, "First of all, the child's progress is thanks to the teachers' teaching. The teachers are very responsible and often send some study guides and schedule references in the class group, and we, as parents, just have to cooperate with the teachers' teaching schedule."

You see, this paragraph has spoken to the teacher's heart, and while thanking the teacher, it also sends this message to other parents: we need to cooperate with the teacher's schedule. That parents can cooperate is certainly the teacher would like to see ah.

Secondly, he talked about his own experience, saying that my child did not like math class and how I cultivated his interest in math, such as how to encourage him, what kind of environment to create at home, and so on. Including also shared that I know we can't help but get angry when tutoring homework, it's all human, but sometimes you can still control your emotions a little bit through a what's what method."

You see, that's what other parents want to hear, want to hear your real experience shared, that's what's useful.

Finally, he gives a small acknowledgement of how the child himself has worked hard and put in the effort to learn.

You can see, a very clever three-point line, by "firstly, thanking the teacher, secondly, sharing the dry goods to parents, and finally, encouraging the child", all the roles are taken care of.

I can only exclaim that Jie has used the knowledge we learned in class very well!

Case 4: Attracting Investment

In our elocution class, Jie was not the only one who could apply what he learned. I remember a small group lesson where we were asked to simulate a speech on "attracting investment and talent" for Chengdu. I am still impressed by that speech, he said this.

I will take you through the four aspects of Chengdu, namely, "according to the reality, residence, and behavior".

First of all, the "Yi" is the Yi of reliance. Chengdu has a strong technological and industrial advantage, with a national high-tech industrial base, and a national demonstration base for small and medium-sized enterprises.

The second is "real". The "food", not only refers to Chengdu as the capital of food, or the real "real". In our investment projects, the government is also to give a variety of support, such as tax incentives, and special support.

The third is "live". Compared with first-tier cities, our housing costs are low, and there is no great pressure for employees to settle down and make a home.

Lastly, "transportation". Chengdu transportation is very convenient, the gateway hub is well connected, and transportation costs are also very low.

See, is this speech very clever? This student used the method of wearing a hat taught in the small group class and cleverly placed a hat on these four points, "according to the actual residence and transportation". We are very familiar with these four words, and this treatment is good for memory and easy to spread. It also impresses us even now. You see, the speech has a memory point and a dissemination point, so it naturally has influence.

Well, the above is the case I want to share. Like this "three points and a line" method to build logic, with a variety of formulas to deal with different scenarios, our courses will have a special lecture to take you to a detailed breakdown, as well as through small classes of practical training, so that managers back to the workplace, can easily and methodically deal with impromptu speeches.