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Public Speaking Skills Training: Public Speaking Workshops to Engage Audience Imagination, Physiology and Emotion
The kind of self-knowledge and self-enthusiasm a public speaker wants to personify--that I called for in my previous article--is not the egotistic, self-centeredness we find in self-absorbed people. This is humanistic awareness, enthusiasm and joy to be alive and grateful that you are powerful, capable and good; that you are an important part of the interconnected whole of being. This includes an awareness that the people you seek to motivate are an equal part of this greater being and that everyone benefits from your message. The meditation and visualization exercises I walk you through in my book will help you connect with yourself and your audience.
Feel and Share Your Passion for Self, Subject and Audience
There are other qualities a great communicator personifies; sincerity and credibility, among others. For now, suffice it to say that to persuade the audience, you must be knowledgeable about, focused on and passionate about yourself and your message. That's before you engage others in communication. Once you begin your speech, your focus and intent is on the audience and your need to reach and move them with your passionate message. Your goal must be to walk them through an enriching experience; one that motivates them to take action towards further enrichment.
Persuasion
The Greek philosopher Aristotle divided the means of persuasion into three categories: Ethos, Pathos and Logos.
- Ethos refers to ethical appeal or credibility. Ethos is critical to effective persuasion. We are more likely to believe people we respect; people who strike us as credible. Alternatively, we are unlikely to trust or believe a person that strikes us as not credible.
- Pathos refers to the person's personality and emotional appeal as a means of persuasion. Like ethos, this is crucial to effective persuasion.
- Logos refers to the capacity to logically persuade someone of your ability solve a problem they have or provide some other benefit for them. Logic is the least important of persuasive factors, but it is, nevertheless, relevant and often crucial.
Personify Genuine Audience Respect and Interest
Research by behavioral scientists has shown that two qualities consistently enhance communication and persuasiveness. These are empathy and sincerity-ethos and pathos from above. We must have confidence in another person before they can persuade us. And, as we will discuss in greater detail throughout this book, emotional appeal, more specifically through active, personalized stories, is perhaps the most powerful tool for persuasion.
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