Six speaker tips for world class results

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There is a story about how writing five daily, differently-themed blogs began

 

Be passionate, tell stories, use personal examples.

Embed questions, paradox and common sense.

These six speaker tips for world class results, practiced constantly will elevate a speaker into a class of their own.

Proof?

Seriously?

Preach what you practice.

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Will anyone complain if we make things easier to understand?

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Insight allows you to see things that others may miss (Physician’s x-ray lab wall)

 

No one will complain if the teacher makes things easier to understand. Not the audience anyway.

But folks that think more is more, folks that are much less prone to refining, and folks that have incredible disparity between what they teach and what they do in real life – they will be the first to complain of an excellent teacher’s methods.

And so it goes.

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If you’d like to go to my LinkedIn profile and endorse ‘simplicity’ that would be swell. It’s right there next to the other two skills listed: determination and humility.

Freaky short story about what I told a colleague the day of the pain

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First sentence in Lee Cockerell’s best-selling Creating Magic is the last one in this post

 

Freaky short story about what I told a colleague the day of the pain:

Me (10am): Hey, having a weird, constant pain for about two hours now. If I keel over and the paramedics ask questions, you can share that with them.

When he asked if he should see about a replacement speaker I said no.

Tough guy right? I can handle this. Did I really think it was potentially paramedic worthy? Not really. Just prudence kicking in.

Insight: It’s not the magic that makes it work, it’s the way we work that makes it magic.

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Only a heretical professional speaker would never give the same speech twice

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Excitement and unpredictability are universally desirable

 

Only a heretical professional speaker would never give the same speech twice.

What the speaker loses in scalability, consistency, comfort, and predictability she gains in engagement, authenticity, excitement, and trust.

The leader’s job isn’t to maintain the status quo, the leaders job is to break the mold.

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