Converse with your audience

One story is about a person who is a well-known English novelist. She had to speak and her topic was “ The future of the Novel”. She admitted that she didn’t select her topic and she had hurriedly made some rambling notes and she stood before the audience. That isn’t delivering a talk at all and It is a soliloquy.

A sense of communication is the first essential aspect of good talking and The audience must feel that there is a message being delivered straight from the mind and heart of the speaker to their minds and their hearts.

A modern audience, regardless of whether it is fifteen people at a business conference or a thousand people under a tent, wants the speaker to talk just as directly as he would in a chat with the natural tones of eloquence. That is what the audience wants.

In order to do that, it gives a tip that when you talk on the stage, you can pick out a person in the audience, someone in the back or the least attentive person you can find. Then, you can imagine that he has asked you a question and that you are answering it and that you are the only one who can answer it. If he were to stand up and talk to you, and you were to talk back to him, that process would immediately and inevitably make your speaking more conversational, more natural, more direct.

So, imagine that is precisely what is taking place. The key is disarmingly natural that the audience may never notice your manner of speaking. It requires a lot of practice to talk naturally and it is a good tip that the speaker can pick one person from the audience to pretend that there is only one audience so that it is a more natural dialog than speaking like an orator. When I grew up, There were a lot of opportunity to visit various academies which teach how to be a good orator, but I don’t personally see that much. I think it is another reason that the modern century is focusing on natural talk to communicate with an audience rather than teaching to be an orator.