Just read a survey and to the question, Is God Real, 39% said no and 61% said yes.
What do you say?
More importantly, something that polarizes audiences is a great statistic to use in your speech. No matter what side people are on, they usually have a strong opinion. Use statistics like this in your public speaking to get the audience involved.
Speak well and prosper.
A study from the University of Chicago found that speakers with foreign accents are viewed as being less truthful by listeners.
There is a big flaw with the study as far as public speakers are concerned. It does not apply.
If you have a very thick accent, are hard to understand and do not enunciate your words, yes you may be in trouble.
Yet how many of us love an accent from a foreign land when the words are clearly spoken and the speaker is easily understood.
Well apportioned accents can go a lot farther than a high pitched or hypernasalaty voice.
Consider the last movie you saw with an actor with a foreign accent. Were you captivated.
It is not as much the accent as it is sense stress, modulation, diction and pronunciation. What we say plays a big part of the picture for public speakers.
If on the other hand I am mis-pro-nounc-e-ating words in a foreign accent, then that is a different story.
So please, master pronunciation, not accent reduction.
Speak well and prosper.
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Many find it more difficult to speak to 10 than to 1000. I sure do.
What can you do to ease the pressure?
A small group allows you to connect with your audience more readily than with a larger group. Although it is easier to move a larger group emotionally, the small group makes possible what you cannot do with a large group.
I spoke to a group of real estate investors from InvestmentPropertyBuying.com and their mastermind investment club this past week. To keep the meeting lively, it was possible to ask some questions with simple answers as I went along.
Getting the audience involved, even with just raising hands, answering simple questions and sharing their thoughts or experiences makes it possible to build rapport.
Building rapport makes it easier.
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Research shows that if you input anything into the mind before you go to sleep, the brain will consolidate the memory during sleep.
This improves the chance of what you put in going into long term memory. If your public speaking, this means you can better remember your talk.
There are other memory tips for public speakers at www.Speechmastery.com
Speak well and prosper.
Using stories, especially your own can help your public speaking.
This picture from my mother-in-law reminded me of one of the many stories of my life.
Here is the Northern Minnisota definition of 'freezer.'
This reminded me of my youth and having to shovel three foot of snow to get to the outhouse at my Uncle Bud’s. He even had the phone that you had to wind up and ring the operator in order to call outside the area. It was not that long ago.
Apparently things like this still exist.
Incorporate stories from your childhood into your public speaking to make them come alive.
Speak well and prosper.
Most of the time it is counter productive to use negative motivation. However there is one exception. This is when you frame the threat as something that the entire group is facing. Then it is a combined threat for everyone, including the one making the threat.
But there is an essential point when the threat has to be transformed into an positive motivation. If you make this switch, then the positive becomes exponential.
This is an essential skill to learn as a public speaking motivator and reaching the audience mind.
To get the answer, go to SpeechMastery.com in the motivation section to get the answer.