Starting the Seminar Right

The way you start your seminar is vitally important. How you start and how you end are crucial to how your event will be perceived.

I would open a keynote speech with a story, but with seminars I like to open with introductions. Remember, the primary intent of a speech is to motivate and secondarily to educate. Seminars are just the opposite. That being the case, starting with introductions makes sense.