📅 5-Week Plan With Heavy Practice
✅ Week 1: 💡 Discover & Refine Your Big Idea
- 🔍 What truly is an “idea worth spreading”? Why most fail this litmus test.
- 🧭 Narrow your theme to one clean, sticky concept.
- ✏ Develop your talk compass: one sentence that guides all content.
- Practice: Pitch your idea in 30 sec to the group & get instant feedback.
✅ Week 2: ✍ Building Your Talk Structure
- 📜 TED’s classic 3-act build: hook ➡ tension & insight ➡ transformation
- 🎯 Blending personal stories, data, and universal themes
- 📝 Craft your “moment of vulnerability” — where you connect deepest
- Practice: Draft your opening & closing lines, test them live.
✅ Week 3: 🎤 Delivery, Voice & Stage Technique
- 🗣 Voice modulation & pacing that carries in auditoriums
- 🚶 Using minimal, intentional stage movement (TED rules vs general keynotes)
- 📝 Slide or prop minimalism — how to keep visuals to “supporting role only”
- Practice: Deliver your first 3-min segment with peer critique.
✅ Week 4: 🚀 Handling Pressure, Coaching Panels & Q&A
- 📝 Navigating TEDx curators, coaching notes & stage managers
- 🧘 Calming pre-stage jitters, working with headsets & floor marks
- 💬 Handling live audience reactions, tech pauses & time cues
- Practice: Full mock run with time & prop constraints.
✅ Week 5: 🏆 Capstone TEDx Talk Performance & Benchmarking
- 🎤 Deliver your complete 8-12 min talk, recorded on camera for critique.
- 📊 Compare vs best TEDx talk cadences & stage maps
- 📝 Receive a detailed evaluation on idea clarity, stage presence, voice flow & audience resonance.
✅ EXAMPLES, TRAINING VIDEOS & CASE STUDIES
🎬 Includes:
- 📺 Breakdowns of top TED & TEDx talks: style, idea maps, emotional curves
- 📝 Before/after story evolution from past students
- 🎥 Clip analyses on body language under bright lights vs small rooms
✅ ROLE PLAY, MOCK SESSIONS & BUDDYING
- 🎭 Weekly buddy reviews — partners score your “big idea clarity & hook lines”
- ✏ Build your personal talk script book, with alternative intros & closings
- 🎥 Record & get micro-feedback on different segments for maximum polish.
✅ BENCHMARKING EVALUATION & ASSESSMENT
🏆 In the final week:
- 📊 Graded across 6 dimensions: core idea clarity, story power, emotional hook, authority signals, stage craft & audience stickiness
- 📜 Receive a TEDx Talk Readiness Report + your top 10 personalized enhancement points
- 🎖 Earn your TEDx Talk Mastery Certificate