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> Get Articles > Public Speaking > The Master Speaker The Master Speaker Download as PDFBurt Dubin burtSpeakingBizSuccess.com Speaking Success System http://www.SpeakingBizSuccess.com If you would converse with me, said Francois Voltaire, first define your terms. master n. (1.) a revered leader, (2.) an artist or performer of consummate skill (3.) One whose work serves as a model or ideal. speaker n. (1.) one who speaks, educates, or trains. Many people stand before audiences and speak, educate, or train. What qualities set the master speaker apart? What aspects of character, what business practices, what habits, what attitudes, what stance, cause a speaker to be recognized as a master? This pastiche is keyed in with no notes, no references. Just my gut. That's where my views are born. That's where your views are born. From your core, from your essence, from your deepest feelings. Let's see if you're able to agree with my gut convictions. The qualities and aspects of a master speaker are these: 1. Integrity: Without this sterling quality, nothing else matters. I mean being more than as good as your word. I mean living and breathing with bone-deep resolve that if you say it, you live it-regardless of the cost. This includes your accountabilities to each of your constituencies: the decision-maker who hires you, the client paying your fee, the audience before which you're privileged to stand. Each expects value in return for their investment of faith or money or time in you. 2. In-depth research: Do you show up and deliver a standard shtick...the same piece you rolled out last week? The same piece you'll present next week somewhere else? If so, you're an actor, a performer, yes. Well and good. the world needs you. And you're not a master speaker! The master speaker does adequate research. Every time. The master speaker customizes, creates a program for each audience. The master speaker bestows a one-time experience on each audience-delivers wisdom born for the time and place, for the company, for the association or group in their here and now moment. The master speaker takes into account the needs, wants, hungers, attitudes, biases, perceptions, challenges, conditions, stated and unstated, of each constituent. 3. Passion: The master speaker is fully involved, totally present-with the audience, the topic or issue, the circumstances, the mood, the environment, with everything affecting the unforgettable experience shaped and molded for this audience and only this audience. The master speaker shares far more than words and concepts, ideas and recommendations. The master speaker shares values and principles, standards and personal philosophy, from his core, essence, deepest beliefs and ideals. The master speaker delivers more, far more, than a program. The master speaker creates an experience, a memory, an indelible impression that audience members cannot possibly forget. Like a virus the master speaker invades the deepest recesses of the consciousness of the audience, causes neuron firings, synapses, in the brains-and positive changes in the minds and hearts of everyone present. The master speaker, with vast empathy for the human condition, intensely aware of the effect of her presence and words, speaks from the soul level. The audience perceives much of the real communication subliminally. The array of impressions released is conveyed by the master speaker's stance, movements, by the look in his eyes, by the pregnant pause at just the right times. The master speaker engraves memories that cannot ever be erased. The outcome, when you make yourself a master speaker: Long after audience members forget every word you uttered, every story you told, every one-liner with which you regaled them, every point you made, they cannot forget you. __________________________________________________________________ Burt Dubin is the creator of the Speaking Success System. Do you think it possible that the writer of the above words might be able to guide you to greater success in your speaking career? Do you really choose to reinvent the wheel? Why struggle to figure it all out when someone who walked the path you're on can save you so much struggle, sweat, and suffering. Burt Dubin, a 20 year veteran of the business of speaking, coaches and mentors speakers and wanna-be's world-wide. Burt works with people who want to be speakers and with speakers who want to be masters. The words of his clients, the admiration and respect expressed for his work by some of the world's most successful speakers, testify to the values he delivers. For samples of his wisdom, simply go to his web-site, http://www.SpeakingBizSuccess.com . Down-load some of the 12 FREE articles and 20 FREE newsletters. Burt Dubin, 1 Speaking Success Road, Kingman, Arizona 86402-6543, USA. Phone 928-753-7546. Fax 928-753-7554. E-mail Burt at: burtSpeakingBizSuccess.com © Copyright 2001 Burt Dubin How useful did you find this article? This article can be downloaded freely from http://www.get-articles.com and used on your website or in your ezine so long as the author is credited and their resource box left intact. You should not change any links in the article, and where the article is used on a website it's links should be clickable. Please see our terms and conditions page for more information: http://www.get-articles.com/authors-publishers-terms.php |
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