The power to change hearts and minds

Great speeches, like great music, can be truly inspiring.

A speech is a presentation, to be sure, but it’s completely different from the generally accepted form of a presentation.  It doesn’t use visual aids.  

Up there on the lectern, it’s just you, your audience and a microphone.

But, in your audiences’ minds, you do create visuals . . . and you do it by the use of words alone.

How?

Speechmakers tell stories.  We are as hard-wired to hear them, as we are to tell them.

And the process starts early . . . your conference members are as willing to listen to them as your three-year-old did when you tucked her into bed.  In fact, they are delighted when you tell them.  (HINT:  That’s how professional speakers earn dollar fees measured in the thousands.)

Stories for adults are not, though, variations on Goldilocks and the Three Bears.  Stories create pictures, and pictures are what we see every day.  We can relate to them.

Told in well-constructed speeches, with the proper use of rhetorical technique and delivered with authority, humour and style, they appeal to the emotions and, subsequently, inspire people to action.

Successfully delivered speeches are hugely influential.

Learn all the skills on this 2 day course run by a professional speaker.  I’ve talked to a dozen people and I’ve talked to 400,000 (I – hands-on – ran the commentary team for the Bicentennial Air Display at Richmond).

No more than 8 in a well organised class that runs strictly to time and is thoroughly enjoyable.  The time flies.

Our musician is stroking her violin-strings.  You can stroke your audience’s heart-strings by telling them your stories. 

“The course was excellent.  I heartily recommend the course to all levels.”