Weak Speaker With a Great Message: Will the Audience Listen?
I had my Twitter stream running on my computer at work today. Periodically I would glance up and look. It just so happened that I caught a tweet from one of my favorite public speaking authors: Nick Morgan.
Here is what Nick said in the Tweet said: Can a weak speaker with a great message hold an audience? And how to improve?
There was a shortened link pointing to his page. I replaced that with a full link — I just have to show Dr Morgan some “Link Love.”
The question he poses is important but the answer is obvious. If your content is good enough then people will give delivery a pass. Don’t believe me: some of the most famous names in speaking aren’t technically that good.
Here is a presentation from Ted that proves my point.
Just in case that wasn’t enough, here is another one.
Back to the original question…
Can a weak speaker with a great message hold an audience?
I think that the answer is “YES!” Hold and mezmerize and haunt …
