Archive for October 16th, 2009
“Inspire Your Target Audience with your message – Guidance for Speakers, Managers, and you. (Hint: It’s More Than Words Can Say)” An interview with Saskia Shakin
You have a message that you want to deliver to your audience – your client, your prospects, or anyone that you hope to inspire. In this context, you are often the speaker, delivering to your audience.
What makes a speaker riveting? What makes an audience come alive?
Saskia Shakin, known as the keynote coach, examines how good speakers engage with their audience, and how not-so-good speakers engage with themselves.
“Most people think that public speaking is about the speech. It’s not! It’s really about you . . . about showing up authentically, not as a perfect speaker but as an imperfect human being with a story to tell.”
“If I could change one thing about speaking in public, it would be to have people focus less on their speech and more on their presence. Look at what you send out in energy, because that is what will come right back at you!”
Saskia’s 30-year career has given her many stories to tell, and they can be found in her book “More Than Words Can Say: The Making of Inspired Speakers”—a collection of wisdom and war stories she has gathered from working with corporate America as well as with artists, academics, and just plain folks like you & me.
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