Top 7 Strategies To Speak With "E's

Speak with “E’s. Be a speaker of influence – not control or guilt. With the privilege of the platform comes the awesome responsibility of motivating and influencing your audience to feel/think/act differently.

1. Educate – provide your audience with extensive information on your topic. This will empower attendees to feel competent and knowledgeable. Support your points with stories. Adults delineate their thoughts visually.
   
   
2. Entertain – give them the facts laced with a good dose of humor. Adults learn better when they are lightening up! Here’s the place for some magic tricks, handwriting analysis or a song.
   
   
3. Experience – get the audience involved. When they interact, they “get it” better and retain it longer. Group exercises, simple questions and answers, role-plays.
   
   
4. Enthusiasm – vary your tone of voice, smile often, show passion for your subject matter. Make your body language reflect your comments.
   
   
5. Example – be the speaker/person who motivates the audience to admire and respect you. You have succeeded when people say, “I want to be like him/her.”
   
   
6. Encourage – be supportive to your audience – believe in them. Say, “I did it…and so can you.”
   
   
7. Excellence – hold yourself accountable for excellence. And then help your audience be accountable and live up to its potential. Speakers need to give audiences what they need, not what they want.

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