Choosing the right speaker.

Guest speaker? Motivational speaker? Inspirational speaker?

Or a speaker who asks questions? Who shares the space with the audience? Who listens? Who promotes a conversation rather than a convention?

When engaging an external influence (speaker) to work with your students,staff or workers the choice is yours.And like all choices there are questions that should be asked and answered-but they aren’t always.

Questions like-

• Who is going to interest my audience? 
• Who is going to connect with my audience? 
• Who is going to be able to ‘hold’ my audience? 

Whilst these 3 questions might look similar they are distinctly different.

Being of interest to an audience is critical.And the game of ‘interest’ is won or lost in the first 2 minutes (max) of meeting said audience.

Being able to connect with an audience cleverly dovetails once you have their interest-only occurring when elements such as atmosphere and style are favorably received by the audience.

At which point the focus can shift to ‘holding’ the audience-which is a highly challenging focus (particularly) given school-aged students.

Thus the need to present a style of speaking that involves subtle nuances in movement,tone and language-which challenges the audience (And has them wondering what’s next)

Speaking publicly is not an easy job.

And neither is selecting a public speaker.

Asking the right questions is a critical first step-your audience will be glad you did.