If you lie, you will need to lie till you die.
Being earnest and sincere in the sharing is the most important thing any speaker must have. It is most important because if it is from your heart, you will understand the feeling and will be able to relate and deliver with passion as well as making your audience feels with you.
The audience can feel your sincerity and your believe level in your delivery. Thru your presentation, the audience can detect if you are lying or speaking the truth.
We can learn from the experience of others but we need to understand and digest what we have learnt before we use any of the ideas and knowledge.
There was once a speaker who was invited to deliver a keynote address. He was too confident about himself and didn’t go thru the materials the company wanted him to touch on although he received them a month ago.
On the day of the presentation, the speaker rush thru the scripts while flying to present at the Dinner and Dance at night. As he was reading the script, he noticed that there were some of the statements which he don’t believe in and some not sure. There was no one to whom he can talk to and he needs to be at the venue for the presentation once he arrive at the airport.
There were lots of things in his mind by the time he reached the venue for his keynote address. The person in-charge of the script wasn’t there to welcome him and he had no one to discuss the script with.
Shortly on his arrival at the venue, he was escorted to the waiting area to get ready for his presentation. After the Master of Ceremony announced his name and invited him up to the lectern, he felt that he wasn’t ready to deliver what he don’t believe and can’t even open his mouth to say his first word. Staring at the audience, he felt totally lost and don’t know what to do.
Minutes later, he tried to deliver the speech but there was no passion and sense of believes in whatever he delivered. It was the worst scenario any speaker would want to be in. He failed due to over-confident and being too proud.
A great speaker must be able to talk his way out of any situation with his wisdom. Therefore, we need to be prepared at all times.
Read lots of magazines, books and newspapers. Understand what you have read and think of what you have read and connect what you have learnt with your own experience. Recall the lessons learnt and how to improve on them.
Even from movies, drama, radio, you will have lots to learn from. Keep learning but you need to understand what you learnt to be able to relate yourself with all the learning.
Once you learn, understand and relate yourself with the learning, you will be able to create your own views. If you don’t understand or believe on what you have read or heard, you will need to ask till you understand it.
It’s thru the understand and the ability to relate that gives you the abilities to present with the passion, sincerity, earnestness and with power.
Learn to speak from the heart to connect with the heart of your audience so that you can win the heart of your audience.