Public Speaking Jobs Basics
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I learned many of my public speaking skills while working with AchieveGlobal (formerly Kaset, which is, in my estimation, one of the best training companies in the world). There, I was able to gain a thorough knowledge of the basics of adult learning, the firm foundation upon which a trainer can build, both confidently and creatively.
And this is significant. I’ve seen some excellent, creative ideas fizzle. I’ve also seen what could have been a keynote speech come up short of success because the public speakers either hadn’t known, or had ignored, some of these fundamentals that add the essential spark. Below, I’ve listed a few of the important truths I discovered as a public speaker at AchieveGlobal. These may be matters with which most of you have some familiarity. Some of you may even know them by heart. If so, please consider this a reiteration for emphasis. Some of you may even consider particular points to be just common sense. If so, I do apologize, but I’ve found that too often what we like to call common sense is not common practice.
We retain 25% of what we hear, 45% of what we see, and 65% of what we both see and hear. This certainly has some instructive implications for your public speaking job, Read more
Playing the Public Speaking Role
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Playing your role in your public speaking career involves some acting and some showmanship.Deb Gottesman and Buzz Mauro eloquently state additional connections between actors and speakers in their book, Taking Center Stage: Masterful Speaking Using Acting Skills You Never Knew You Had:
Most people assume that good actors and good public speakers are good because they possess something called talent. It’s a word you hear a lot. Performers are talented or gifted, meaning they must have been born with it. Yet, so far, biologists have not isolated a talent gene, and it’s pretty certain they never will. Talent is a figment of our collective imagination…maybe it’s easier to
say, “I’ve no talent,” than to work hard at developing a public speaking skill? Watch a the video below as add some showmanship and props into telling this story.