In this age of 140 word tweets and five-minute dinners, the ability to put forth a message, make a proposal, or give an on-the-fly three-minute presentation is a required skill.
Communications expert Sjodin provides a blueprint to create and deliver "Elevator Speeches."
After explaining this concept, she guides you toward developing your intentions and crafting the speech itself, based on Monroe’s Motivated Sequence, who was a Purdue professor in the 1930s).
The concepts flow smoothly, the ideas are constantly reviewed and developed, and she brings it to a strong conclusion.
As she makes clear, an Elevator Speech is not meant as a complete presentation but rather to initiate a "Butterfly Effect"–to "intrigue and inspire a listener to want to hear more." To that end, Sjodin succeeds in giving the necessary tools.
Terri Sjodin, no one aspires to deliver a boring presentation that’;s information-heavy but light on persuasion, she points out. But peer pressure and the age-old fear of public speaking tend to get the better of us.