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Public Speaking Skills Training: Charisma - What it is, How to Get it, and Why You Want It
So here's a quiz for you: who has been the best speaker in the past 100 years? Not an easy question to answer, eh? Even those of us who don't spend a lot of time studying history can come up with an impressive list of names: John F. Kennedy, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, Adolf Hitler (even mean people can be good speakers), Winston Churchill, etc. Clearly these are the best of the best when it comes to speaking in public. What made them so good and can we become as good as they were?
What Is Charisma? It turns out that in addition to being in the right place at the right time, these fantastic speakers all shared one thing in common: they had charisma. In a nutshell, a speaker who has charisma has the ability to connect with their audience and cause their emotions to be induced into the audience.
Eva Kihlstrom has studied what it takes to obtain charisma and she's discovered that 50% of our charisma is built into our genetic make-up - we've either got it or we don't, the other 50% can be learned. Let's see what we can do about the part that can be learned...
It's All About Technique We've all seen speakers who didn't have charisma - they were no fun to either watch or listen to. The reason that we didn't like being in their audience is because they spoke with a monotone voice and displayed almost no emotion. Clearly they weren't connecting with us.
In order to work more of that powerful charisma stuff into your next speech, you need to start to vary your voice to match what you are talking about. If you are trying to convey fear, then you need to raise your voice. If you are trying to communicate wisdom, then take it down a few notches.
Your face needs to match the words that are coming out of your mouth. So much of our emotions are played out over our faces that if you can use your face to its fullest extent while you are delivering your speech, then you'll be able to draw your audience into the emotions that go along with your story.
Have Your Body Tell The Right Story Hopefully you are getting the point that charisma is so hard to do because it's really the result of using everything that you've got to deliver your speech. This includes using your entire body: how you move on stage, the tone of your voice as you speak, in addition to the actual words that you use in speech that you deliver.
The difference between a speaker with charisma and one who doesn't have it can be striking. A speaker who has charisma speaks with so much energy that the audience can't help but get caught up in the topic. It's this energy that can motivate an audience to go out and take action based on what was said.
Mental Images Rule In order to connect with an audience, a charismatic speaker needs to be able to build vivid images in their audience's minds. Having a shared mental image can do remarkable things in terms of bringing an audience closer to a speaker.
In order to create a clear image, a speaker needs to pick their words carefully. Using words that have easily pictured images makes this much easier to do. Take some time and listen to (or read) great speeches from charismatic speakers and you'll see that this is exactly what they do.
What All Of This Means For You Once you get over the nerves and jitters that come with speaking in public, we all start to wonder what comes next. The ultimate goal for any speaker is to start to work more charisma into your speaking style.
In order to do this, you need to find ways to make a stronger connection with your audiences. No new technology is needed to make this happen. What you need to do is to make better use of your voice, your facial expressions, and your body language.
The power of a charismatic speaker is impressive. If you take the time to work on developing your skills in this area, then you will have a skill that very few speakers can demonstrate and this will make you stand out from everyone else.
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Subject: Public Speaking Skills Training