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Top 10 E's to Motivate and Influence an Audience
by Sandra Schrift
Published on this site: June 13th, 2005 - See
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Speak with E's. Be a speaker of influence not control or guilt.
With the privilege of the platform comes the awesome responsibility
of motivating and influencing your audience to feel/think/act differently.
- Educate provide your audience with extensive information on
your topic. This will empower attendees to feel competent and
knowledgeable. Support your points with stories. Stories help
us see through the eyes of other people. Adults delineate their
thoughts visually.
- Entertain give them the facts laced with a good dose of humor.
Adults learn better when they are lightening up! Here's the place
for some magic tricks, handwriting analysis or a song.
- Experience get the audience involved. When they interact, they
get it better and retain it longer. Group exercises, simple questions
and answers, role-plays.
- Enthusiasm vary your tone of voice, smile often, and show passion
for your subject matter. Make your body language reflect your
comments.
- Example be the speaker/person who motivates the audience to
admire and respect you. You have succeeded when people say, I
want to be like him/her.
- Encourage be supportive to your audience believe in them. Acknowledge
them Say, I did it and so can you
- Excellence hold yourself accountable for excellence. And then
help your audience be accountable and live up to its potential.
Speakers need to give audiences what they need, not what they
want.
- Expertise demonstrate that you know your stuff. Speak about
what you know from your business background, personal experiences
and research. Be perceived as an expert on your topic.
- Eloquence deliver your speech with high energy, sincerity,
inspiration, and a sense of humor. Are you one of a kind? What
makes you different from your competitors?
- End result you want to energize your audience to take some
risks, some action, go to the edge and execute make their dreams
come true, or get the job done. Your information should be useful
and immediately applicable to their lives.
Sandra Schrift 13 year speaker bureau owner and now
career coach to emerging and veteran public speakers who want
to "grow" a profitable speaking business. I also
work with business professionals and organizations who want
to master their presentations. Get more speaking skills at
our "Summer Sizzle" webpage: http://www.schrift.com/summer_sizzle.htm
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