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Public Speaking Skills Training: Public Speakers Achilles' Heel

"Gail, would you like to hear my opinion?" I humbly asked after watching her give her latest speech. It took me a long time to understand what she was doing, but after watching her speak a few times I discovered something she did that was a little disturbing. It took away from her message rather than made it stronger.

"Yes, I'd like that," she replied.

Gail has the amazing ability to create entertaining content on the spot. She often repeats other people's comments, commands word play with ease and is extremely gifted with speaking in the moment. She is an advanced speaker so most people shy away from giving her constructive criticism.

"You're bobbing your head too often," I expounded. "It's distracting. It appears as if you're trying to convince me, which has the opposite effect because I find myself resisting you, even fighting you on a subconscious level."

"I didn't know," she commented. "Thanks for bringing that out. I have a hard time with some of my messages. For instance, I gave a talk about branding during a women's seminar and even I had a difficult time believing my own message. I felt like such a fraud."

Gail has been working in the marketing department for many years. This is the stuff she knows and has trained for. This is the stuff she makes an income from. Yet, on a deeper level, she doesn't even believe the stuff she teaches.

I want to pose a stop-you-in-your-tracks type question for you public speakers...

Do you really believe in your message?

Gail has a tough time convincing herself. She does have good information for her audience and she can make a decent living off of her marketing messages because she is a talented speaker. But at the end of the day, she feels she's hasn't been true to herself. Which makes her question her own motives for being on the platform.

She's suffering from that angst feeling which I term the "public speakers Achilles' heel." It's that vulnerable spot for public speakers where they come to grips with their own messages. Are they just speaking to get by, speaking for a paycheck, or is there something more meaningful they really want to say from the depths of their souls?

Too often we hear the term commodity speaker. That's a speaker who speaks on everything and anything that's seems to be the latest hot ticket item. She'll speak on customer service on Monday, sales scripts on Tuesday, social media on Wednesday, graphic design on Thursday, and database marketing on Friday.

Commodity public speakers promote themselves as experts in many business fields, but in reality they are not true experts at all. That's a shame, because when the commodity speaker spreads herself too thin, the marketplace doesn't really know what to make of her. And that's because she's going lateral with her topics instead of going deep.

Now if you public speakers have a message that's stirring in your gut, that you know audiences can identify with, have been through, have struggled with, and want a remedy for - then you might have something that defines you as an expert in that field.

Today's audiences are growing weary of shallow messages and public speakers. They're seeking messages and messengers from the platform who are real, genuine and authentic. They want someone to tell them the truth. Be that someone and you can avoid the public speakers Achilles' heel.

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Subject: Public Speaking Skills Training