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Public Speaking – Your State of Being Determines Your Results – Passionate Power Presentations #3

Guest Blogger — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:00:02 +0000

Everything begins with and flows from your state. Your results in public speaking or any other activity you engage in will only be as effective as your personal state.

Your state manifests from your thoughts, beliefs and emotions; in particular those you choose in the moment.

When you drill down further, what are beliefs? Your beliefs are just particularly strong thoughts; ones with which you have attached strong, personal meaning.

Your emotions manifest from your thoughts; and from the meanings, emotions and beliefs you connect to your thoughts. So, it is all about your thoughts and how well you manage them so as to serve your purpose.

There is one other element. It’s also about your connection and congruence with your physical/physiological being. You must feel your energy, your state flow freely through and emanate out of your physical being for optimal, dynamic communication. There should be no emotional, intellectual or physical holding back or blockage.

At all stages of the process- homework, speech-writing, rehearsal and, of course, during your presentation-your final product will depend upon your state. You are the pilot; you must assume control. For our purposes, your state will be most affected by the following perceptions you choose:

- Your self-perceptions and beliefs – Speaking capability, expressiveness, confidence, personality, intelligence, self-worth, presence, charisma, etc. – Your beliefs and perceptions of the audience – Who are they and what do they mean to you? What do you want from them? What do they want from you? What do you want to give them? – Your beliefs and perceptions of the subject matter you discuss or present. Your message and its importance to you and the audience.

The good news is that we get to choose our perceptions and states. The bad news is, very few of us do this in a consistently empowering way. In fact, most people never actively choose and manage their perceptions or states, they simply accept whatever perceptions and resulting states have been handed down to them by their families, friends and other influencing people in their life.

In my next article, we will begin to discuss how you can take charge of your perceptions and your state.

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It’s all about you. Chris’ goal is to help you grow and actualize as a public speaker and in all other areas of your life. Chris is an accomplished motivational speaker and public speaking coach. In addition to his public speaking experience, his diverse resume also includes 7 years as a professional actor in NYC, LA & Paris (stage, film, TV & print), after which he returned to school for an MBA and became a Fortune-50 corporate banker 12 years. Prior to founding Breakout Presentations, he founded, grew and sold another company.

He turned full-time to his greatest passion & gift (motivational speaking and public speaking coaching) after a serious medical setback caused him to re-evaluate his life.

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Public Speaking – Dynamic Audience Connection – Passionate Power Presentations #2

Guest Blogger — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 11:00:20 +0000

Right now, in your mind’s eye, look back to the most memorable, positive conversation you can remember. One where the rest of the world dissolved into a blur; background noise; your enthusiastic attention focused intensely on this person, this conversation and this subject. In fact, you could see, hear and feel the subject of discussion every bit as much as you could the person in front of you.

Why was this conversation more remarkable than the many thousands of other conversations you’ve had? At least several elements were unique or heightened. First of all, the other person was of considerable importance to you. You had something at stake with this person. Something you wanted from them. There was probably something you wanted to give them as well.

I don’t subscribe nefarious motivations here, in fact, quite the opposite. This would most likely have been a person with whom you had considerable positive connection. What you wanted to give and take would probably be of great interest and value to both of you. This would likely have been a relationship where you each had much at stake, much to gain, and you both were equally intent on giving as you were on receiving each other’s message.

Chances are you were also passionate about the subject of discussion beyond what you hoped to give or gain. Unless it was a situation where you and the other person were in love and you would have been ecstatic to merely discuss navel lint, the subject was relevant to each of you on a deep emotional and intellectual level.

Were you concerned about “how” you delivered certain phrases or words? No. Were you worried or negative about how successful you were being in your communication? Not likely. At least not in the moments you fully engaged with the person you weren’t. You were, however, intent on communicating clearly and effectively.

Were you even aware of where your hands were, much less what you were doing with them? And please stay with me here…I’m assuming this wasn’t a romantic encounter or, at the very least, you were in a suitably public location where physical intimacy would be inappropriate. No, you had no idea where your hands were or what they were or weren’t doing. In fact, if you are normally a physically reserved person, your hands were probably more actively involved in your story than normal.

THIS is the state you must create to effectively communicate and motivate. You must fully engage yourself and your message; with absolute focus on your audience; with great passion and intention to communicate successfully with them to their edification and benefit. You must be in a state of “Wow!” because you are excited for the opportunity to reach out to, understand and communicate with this specific person or group of people, in this moment. You are on a mission. You want them to totally get you; and you must totally get them.

In public speaking, you must take it to the next level. You want to infect your audience with your passion. You want to “Wow!” them with your command of the subject matter, with your ability to comprehend and communicate your message. You want to “Wow!” the audience enough to inspire them to action with your message.

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He turned full-time to his greatest passion & gift (motivational speaking and public speaking coaching) after a serious medical setback caused him to re-evaluate his life.

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Public Speaking 101 – Passionate Power Presentations

Guest Blogger — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 11:00:32 +0000

Persuasive communication is one of the most crucial and neglected skills necessary for personal and professional success. Your accomplishments in life more often than not correlate with your ability to connect and communicate effectively with other people. Many of us spend years and small fortunes on college and other endeavors, yet few people invest even a fraction of this energy and money to develop their communication skills.

Effective communication helps us get what we want. There’s little in life that we can accomplish alone. Success requires cooperation and consideration from others. The degree of consideration you receive will usually correspond with your communication skills and power of persuasion. Successful communication increases the frequency, duration and depth of productive, positive outcomes in our interactions with others. Learn to communicate effectively and you exponentially increase your opportunity for success in life.

In today’s competitive world we must all sell all the time. You must consistently and materially add value to your relationships or you risk eventual replacement. This even goes for your personal relationships. Think of it. Do you maintain, much less nurture and pursue, relationships that do not meet your needs?

By selling, I mean to maintain an active, thorough and genuine interest in being a beneficial force in the other person’s life. To seek solutions to fill the gaps between where the other person is and where they want to be. If we don’t add value, we become obsolete.

Public speaking is about selling the audience on the benefits you offer them if they buy into and act on your message.

To be truly great as a public speaker, you must first connect with yourself; with your simple being-ness in the moment; as you exist bereft of ego, mental activity, human activity and busy-ness; your core meta-physical energy. The simple stillness of being.

Next you must connect with your unique passion and greatness as a human being. Your special life perspective, story and voice. Your experiences, skills and interests, but it must extend far beyond these to include your greatest passion and/or vision. You must discover and develop your special message your meta-physical voice (as opposed to your physical vocal voice).

Then you must learn to effectively and movingly articulate your being, your mind, your emotions, your passion and your voice through language (both content and structure).

Then, if you hope to communicate dynamically, you must connect with and gain expressive use of your physical instruments of communication: your physical voice and your body.

Finally comes the most important element. You must connect with your audience with full attention, intention and active listening.You must persuasively communicate your message, which has to serve the audience. you must inspire, coach and lead the audience down a path to personal benefit through your message and your passion.

Truth told, if you master all of the first steps, you will connect with and move the audience. Just keep in mind that even if you do connect and become proficient with all of the above, except connecting with the audience, it all will have been for naught. As a public speaker, you are there to serve the audience, not your own ego or agenda.

So connect. And rock the world!

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It’s all about you. Chris’ goal is to help you grow and actualize. Chris is an accomplished motivational speaker and public speaking coach. His diverse resume also includes 7 years as a professional actor (stage, film & TV), followed by 12 years as a Fortune-50 corporate banker, and, most recently, 7 years as an entrepreneur. He turned full-time to his greatest passion & gift (motivational speaking and public speaking coaching) after a serious medical setback caused him to re-evaluate his life.

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