Ulian Treasure Speech Analysis

ulian Treasure's speech: "How to Speak So That People Want to Listen", covers four main topics. Starting with the seven deadly sins of speaking: gossip, judgment, negativity, complaining, excuses, lying and dogmatism. He leads into the four powerful cornerstones of speech, which is conveniently an acronym for H.A.I.L.: honesty, authenticity, integrity and love. As an analogy, Julian uses tools in a toolbox that represents how you can take advantage of your voice to convey a point, and to entice audiences. The tools were as listed: register, timbre, prosody, pace, pitch, and volume. Julian then asks the audience to stand up, and to warm up their voice by: putting your arms up, deep breath in, sighing out, warming up your lips, warming up your tongue, and performing the siren method to prep …show more content…
You may even say his gesturing was in the “Goldilocks zone.” He used multiple hand movements, which were appropriate to what he was conveying, and they weren’t repetitive either. He also used body motion during certain parts of his presentation, such as bending over when making a joke, or to place a strong emphasis on a point he’s making. He even manages to stand in one place the entire time! Not pacing, not dancing, not waddling. He was able to naturally stand in one spot the entire time. He made use of his own tips when handling voice control as well. Julian changed his pitch and pace while joking, changing subject, and in other strategic ways. It was used in such an expressive, and entertaining way. This resulted in an overall comfortable manor. Julian Treasure’s speech was great to watch: he had awesome animations and visuals, made effective use of comedy, and is a role model for giving an excellent speech. I would recommend his TED Talk to anyone who wishes to build communications