Live the Message - Part II - What It Means to Live Your Message

Part I of this talk tells you what is the one, single secret to greatness in the art of speaking in public. In Part II, we explore what it means, using music, song, poetry and drama and, finally, your own experience, as examples and illustrations. Learning specific performance skills and message strategies is fine, is important, is necessary. But most important of all is to know what all the performance skills and message strategies (rhetoric) are all about, to see how they contribute to an experience which you share with the audience, an experience which they enjoy and which they remember. The next time you do a live presentation, whether it is a Tuesday afternoon report to a work group of three or four colleagues, a sales talk to a couple of clients in a conference room, or the keynote speech to the annual convention...you will know what is the one thing that you can do to make it your best presentation ever...