Public Speaker as a Performer

Storytelling highlights the pertinent points a speaker wants to make in a way that the audience doesn’t easily forget. By telling a story that illustrates the content, the public speaker can motivate, inspire, entertain, and then instruct the audience, tasks I mentioned at the beginning of this series of articles as critical to connect with…

Conducting a smooth and informative question and answer period requires considerable skill on the part of the speaker. As a performer, it is important to keep the frustration level of the audience low – preferably to bring it to zero! During the Q&A, it is annoying to audience members to hear the answers to unheard…

One of my very favorite actresses Sophia Loren said something like this “Audience remembers actor or actress if they can relate to the acting. Creating relationship is the heart of acting.  It is essential.” When you stand in front of an audience you are an actress or an actor. You have to combine many disciplines,…

No matter how informative your material is, you can’t provide benefit to the audience if their attention is elsewhere. However, there are a few techniques that I use to catch and hold audience attention.              Keeping an attentive audience:  First, if members of the audience are chatting with  each other while I am speaking, I…

Part 01 – Rules of Thumb to become an outstanding public speaker Tips for public speaking: It is an Art as well as Science I am describing my approach of speaking in the public, which I prepared in response to requests from audience members at a number of training sessions, seminars and as a keynote…