Spotlight on Speaking Newsletter - Issue #90
Was super excited to have internet marketing pioneer Willie Crawford as my guest on this episode of the Spotlight on Speaking Show. Willie shares his rags to riches story and is truly one of the pioneers in the internet marketing world.
Let’s cut to the chase: Want to captivate an audience without sounding like a human teleprompter? Stick around, and I’ll show you how being perfectly imperfect can transform the way you connect with others. Ready to ditch perfection? Let’s go!
We prefer uncluttered information-driven PowerPoint slides. We need the empty space to segment each point or idea as we navigate the slide. Let’s think of our speaking similarly. Do you create any “white space” by pausing when you speak? White space is silence. Silence might seem uncomfortable, but it is a powerful tool when used intentionally.
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I think that we’d all like to think that every time that we take the stage in order to give a speech, everything is going to go perfectly. Well, that might all be true, but because life is what it is, things can happen as we give a speech that we would all agree turns the speech into a disaster. Since there is really nothing that we can do to prevent something like this from happening, the question that we need to be able to answer is what should we do if disaster strikes?
When we give a speech, we don’t want to be standing on that stage all by ourselves. We understand that a speech really requires two parities to participate in it – the speaker and the audience. We know what we want to say, but the real challenge is finding ways to bring our audience along with us. We want to find way to develop a real connection with them during our speech. How can we go about doing this?
The Spotlight on Speaking Newsletter is published by Bret Ridgway, a 25-year veteran of the speaking industry. For more information on Bret check out https://BretRidgway.com and to check out the Spotlight on Speaking Show podcast go to https://SpotlightOnSpeaking.com.
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