Become a Good Speaker

So in my last post, I mentioned the importance of Communication, and I gave a few examples to show both successful and failure way of using different communication. 

Now in this post, I will list down a few elements that is required in order to be a good speaker. Good speaker meaning the spotlight are all on one individual, audiences get motivate and cheering, clapping comes automatically. 

First of all, one of my teacher told me, the best way to discover who is the most dominant and influential person in the class is to be aware of their body language- nonverbal communication; to observe the way they sit in class, the position they chose to sit and the concentration they have in class.

Some little movement and small detail, such as the pause, the nod, the hand movement and the eye contact can be very effective in range from little conversation to speech in front of hundred or million of people. 

Let me (try my best to) show you an comparison example on what I meant the pause, nod, etc. 
A: Today, I'm happy to announce my engagement with Vivian. (say this sentence with no pause in between, just be as normal as possible)
B: Today (pause for 3 second and look around the audience), I'm happy (put both of your hands together in front of your chest) to announce my engagement (pause for 3 second and look around) with Vivian (point at Vivian with a big smile).

You can see (or imaging) the different it would makes just by adding a few pauses a hand movement in between. You will gather audience's attention when using pauses at the right moment, looking around the audience would give people a feeling of they are special and important. Let me show you an clip that present a good example:

The power of Rhetoric! 

President Barak Obama delivered victory speech in 2012. In this speech, President Obama used the words "You", " the American people", "We are American","One union" and "this country" to engage and motivate with the audience.   

Also to note that President Obama did not look at the camera during his speech, he focus on eye contact with the audience by looking his left and right consistently, to make sure that he is speaking to everyone, not any individual. 

President Obama had express the beauty of hand movement and pauses in this speech. Every motivate words and thing that he wanted to emphasis were combined with different hand movement, therefore the audience could identify what's importance by the hand movement. 

The next time you are up to give a speech in front of audiences or convince someone, try to add a few hand movement and pauses, the outcome could be different. 

In business, sports or anywhere, the successful people may have talent or gift within them, but people that knows how to inspire the audience is the one will get most respect and have most control. 

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Billy