Thread by @Bazzaruto

Everyone struggles with presenting

Especially course creators, so @RobbieCrab threw down a gauntlet to my students

~ Be a Performer and a Professor ~

Here's how:

In this 🧵 you'll learn:

1) Your role as a sherpa
2) The top mistake 1st timers make
3) The two personas
4) How to switch between them
5) Planning your course like a journey
6) Ideas for closing on a high
7) Lessons from pop culture

Let's get to it, shall we?

🔰 You Are The Sherpa

Your role as course creator is to be a sherpa

Take your students up the mountain, and back home safely

Some of your students may want to turn back

You need to inspire them to keep going

🔰 The 1st-timer Mistake

Don't expect your students to show up, and keep showing up

You have to

1) Inspire them to take action
2) Convince them that yours is the right mountain to climb

🔰 You Need Two Personas

→ Performer 🎩
→ Professor 👓

Muhammad Ali the Performer gets you to buy tickets to the fight

Muhammad Ali the Professor showcases his brilliance to convince you to keep coming back

🔰 How To Play Both Roles

Like Ali, you have to float like a butterfly and sting like a bee

@RobbieCrab says to think of it as a sine wave

And be intentional about how you start and end

🔰 Plan Your Course Like A Journey

When you climb Everest, first you go to base camp

Then you move to the next camp. And the next camp

You get to the good stuff by building on the basics

End every milestone with an inspirational hook for the next step

🔰 Start With Performer 🎩

You have to come out the gate swinging

You literally have seconds to capture attention

🔰 Transition To Professor 👓

The Professor is more conversational

Teach, interact, be human

But if you get to the end and you're still in professor mode, you haven't inspired people to come back

🔰 Always Finish As Performer 🎩

Look at all the great speakers - they leave you inspired at the end

End your sessions with cliffhangers

Your students want to know what happens next

Watch thrillers for ideas

🔰 How To Close On A High

What resonates with you?

Use:

→ Designs
→ Images
→ Quotes
→ Poems
→ Videos

Bonus:

• End with your own monologue after sharing the above
• The Palate Cleanser - pause after your finish to transition from Performer to Professor one last time

🔰 @RobbieCrab's Pop Culture Lessons

In true Robbie style, he shared examples of pop culture references he uses in his course, Performative Speaking

Each of these carry powerful messages

Here are 10 examples for inspiration:

1/ What we do in life echoes in eternity

We're on a bigger journey and we're headed somewhere significant.

You too, can create a legacy

This Gladiator clip drives home the point

2/ You have a voice

You have a vision

You have something to share

3/ Storytelling moves you to take action

Grab the tissues for this one

4/ Share your origin story

Connect with nostalgia that will resonate with your audience

5/ Make the complex simple

Show, don't tell

6/ Failure doesn't exist

For course creators, help your students overcome The Dip (

https://twitter.com/Bazzaruto/status/1383420321672286209

) with a Mamba Mentality

7/ Performing on the fly

Don't memorize lines

Read them over and over, and embody the emotions and feelings

Then deliver, leaving your audience feeling the way you felt

That's memorable

8/ You too, can do this

Leave your students feeling that they too, can do it

What feels so out of reach to them now...

They can be what they want to be

9/ You can change it up

Change your voice, add inflection, add variety

10/ It's not where you start, it's where you finish

End with a big finish, not with a small whimper

Never forget the landing

That's it, folks!

If you got a nugget of value in this thread, please:

1. RT or QT the 1st tweet (linked below)
2. Follow me @Bazzaruto for more course creator content

Thank you 🙏

https://twitter.com/Bazzaruto/status/1440412426088841224?s=20