Public speaking is our greatest fear

Disney leadership speaker
Most of us are not professional speakers.

 

Public speaking is our greatest fear.

It’s an ingrained human fear even greater than the fear of death.

Yet we speak all the time.

Day to day living requires a functional adult to speak with others.

And if you’re a leader, you’re expected to do more than speak, you’re expected to inspire and motivate.

Watch and listen to people who you enjoy listening to and people who bore or offend you.

What is it that each group demonstrates that you could practice on your own and become better at speaking day to day?

 

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Excite, inspire, and motivate, Disney style

Disney Institute Speakers
Yesterday on Twitter.

 

Disney Institute Speakers
Big convention here at Walt Disney World.

 

Disney Institute Speakers
My buddy Ernesto, from Disney Institute.

 

Excite, inspire, and motivate, Disney style.

It’s not the Magic that makes it work, it’s the work that makes it Magic.

Common sense.

Not common.

 

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It’s a rare day when i go 12 hours without checking messages

Disney Keynote Speaker jeff noel
If they pick me this morning, i’m going to tell them my dress code.

 

It’s a rare day when i go 12 hours without checking messages and responding quickly.

In the car and ready to drive home from Tampa, the voice mail from six hours earlier asked about my availability to deliver a customer service keynote in eight days.

Praying for the original Disney keynote Speaker who had a heart attack.

 

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To listen more or to not listen more, that is the question

inspiring mission
Last night, a random commercial. Love the aspirational vision. Essentially, i aspire to do the same.

 

The Speakers Bureau gave them the top keynote speaker recommendations.

However, several members of the speaker selection committee had seen me speak a month ago and told the leader he should contact me.

As we concluded the 30-minute call, he said i should hear back in a couple days.

Was proud of myself for intentionally doing far more listening this call than usual.

Not sure if it was a good idea.

 

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Emails out of nowhere generally are spam

Glacier National Park
September 27, 2017…taken from inside rental car. Amazing.

 

Emails out of nowhere generally are spam.

And then there are ones that bring opportunity.

Like the one yesterday, with the potential for a keynote speech – but it conflicts with one of 2018’s five Glacier writing trips.

By the way, this is the third consecutive Summer i’ve not taken speaking engagements from May 30 – September 30.

And there’s an exception to literally every rule, except death and taxes.

Back to the email, the upside is it’s in the middle of a 10-day trip and a three-day break in the middle is doable.

The client saw me two months ago and liked what he saw.

Now he’s interested in bringing it to his annual global conference in Atlanta.

The call is in 3.5 hours.

Wish me luck.

 

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