How Do You As a Speaker Impact an Audience?
How Do You As a Speaker Impact an Audience? How you look includes your clothes, your facial expression, your stance, your body movement, your hands, how you move your eyes. Suppose you are trying to motivate a group, and you tell them something is “a wonderful opportunity,” but you don’t look or sound it. Vision is […]
Rapport- How Much to Customize?
Rapport- How Much to Customize? Go to the trouble of learning about the audience. Make six or seven references geared specifically to your audience. That makes you, the speaker, something of an insider and lets the audience know you took the trouble of learning about them. Make comments – humorous statements, praise, or just simple […]
Rapport- How to?
Rapport- How to? How to get to that sweet spot of building mutual warmth and walking the same page with your audience? Answer: Put their needs and interests ahead of your own. You don’t ignore your own needs, but put the spotlight on their needs. For example, if your audience has been listening to hours of […]
Rapport- Pure and Simple
Rapport- Pure and Simple What makes you different from a robot? You can grow rapport with the audience. What is the goal of rapport? A feeling of mutual warmth and the sense that you’re on the same wavelength and mind frame. Rerun from Oct 1, 2014
What do YOU want to accomplish through your speech?
What do YOU want to accomplish through your speech? Get the answer to the question of what you personally want to achieve through your speech makes developing your speech… the words and the nonverbal props and body language… easier. Do you have any of these goals? You want to build your credibility You want the […]
Figure Out Why You Are Presenting
Figure Out Why You Are Presenting What is the function of your talk? Are you trying to inform, persuade, inspire, or entertain. What is your motivation for speaking -Were you asked to speak? -Were you ordered to speak? -Do you want to speak? What is your audience’s motivation for listening? -Does the audience want to hear […]
Deciding Whether You Should Accept an Invitation to Speak- Part 1
Deciding Whether You Should Accept an Invitation to Speak- Part 1 (Of course, if your boss asks you to give a speech, do it!) First things first: Do you have the time in your schedule? o You need time to get to and from the event and answer questions Do you have time to prepare? o You […]
Write It Out
Write It Out You should write out your conclusion for two reasons. First, writing the conclusion combats stage fright. This time is the second most nerve-racking time for speakers So if you write it out, you don’t have to worry about forgetting it. Second, and most important, if you write out the conclusion, you’ll know […]
Wow Your Audience
Wow Your Audience Get a business card from someone in the company that you’ll be addressing and scan in the company logo. Then you can make it appear in the corner of every screen with your logo. Rerun from 08/04/2014
Tips for Teleconferencing
Tips for Teleconferencing Use emotion in your voice. Emphasize emotion so you don’t speak in a flat tone. Use metaphors and similes to create word pictures for others. Rerun from 07/28/2014